Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker.
    • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Vivaldi is nice, but some people may not like it due to it being closed source(some of vivaldi is open source with a closed source ui) , personally I think its a little bit sluggish.

    • tb_@lemmy.worldBEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Vivaldi is my backup browser, but I don’t want to contribute to Chromium’s market share so Firefox it is 99% of the time.

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Chrome is the abblock-block? You might have outblocked me today, but I’ll firefox you away!

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Sad saga, but here we are. I remember when Chrome was new and brought much needed speed and low resource usage to the browsing experience of the day. I even got email from a Chrome engineer once about a bug I mentioned in a forum, asking me for more information.

      Google was already an ad company by then so anyone could have looked forward to this inevitability. Some did. Most of us did not.

      Chrome has just always been there for some younger people but it will now live in my memory as a fully encapsulated end-to-end enshittification experience that I really should have always expected.

      And just like it used to be with Internet Explorer, I am forced to use Chrome at work all day because thats the IT & security approved / enterprise-managed browser.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I, too, switched to Chrome around when they launched due to drastically better performance. But shortly after (a couple years?), I found out Opera had similar performance and had cool other features, so I switched to that. Opera then converted to a Chrome-clone, so I switched to Firefox, which had largely caught up w/ performance by that time.

        If you have the option, request that Firefox be added to the supported app list or whatever by your IT team. Tell them you need some Firefox-specific extensions or something for your job.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Imagine having an OS that doesn’t come with a proper package manager (and Firefox installed by default, for that matter).

    • Tux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Just like how Micro$oft Windows is advertsiting Linux, Google Chrome advertsites Firefox!

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        4 months ago

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  • zeroshift11@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I recently started using Brave Browser and I noticed YouTube ads were starting to seep through randomly. Seems alright no far.

  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Once this starts affecting me is lonely what will push me to other Crowder’s I’ve never felt the need to leave chrome. I have a lot of Google related services and products so it would be hypocritical of me to draw an arbitrary line at browsers but not the rest, because personally i don’t care about tracking and whatnot cause it’s mostly just to serve targeted ads and I don’t see them for the most part so I don’t care, gimme all your cookies. But if I stay seeing ads again more prominently and there’s no workaround, then I’m out. Moving on.

    • IcyToes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      And you think US government and 5 eyes countries won’t have access? What happens when that elaborate detailed profile data of yours gets hacked?

      You are free to choose at any point where you draw the line.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    4 months ago

    We got here by using their softslop… only way to kill them is not move on to different merchants.

    Gaming 101

  • peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I frequently forget that chrome is installed on my phone. The only time I’m forced to use it is about once a year when I order Papa John’s Pizza takeout. Their checkout page doesn’t seem to work in any other browser.

  • intro@programming.devEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I stopped using adblockers and simply set my operating system to use Mullvad’s DNS over HTTPS/TLS. It doesn’t have all the other ublock features, but all ads are blocked in all browsers.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    “Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker”

    No. Time to switch to Firefox or derivative such as Librewolf.

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Unfortunately I’m stuck with Chrome at work so having something like Ublock Lite available is somewhat helpful. I just hope it still blocks youtube ads because they’re the worst.

      • AJ1@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        it seems to work on youtube so far, but that could also be due to the previous custom filters I installed months ago when yt ramped up their “no adblocker” campaign. UBO still works in the sense that all of the filters and lists you’ve installed are still there and functioning, you just can’t update the extension. I’m still running UBO alongside UBO lite and it’s working fine for now (knock on wood) until I can afford a new Windows machine.

      • moe93@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I am running a portable LibreWolf on my work issued, locked-down-with-a-chastity-belt-and-thrown-the-keys-into-the-fires-of-Mount-Doom-in-Mordor laptop with uBlock extension installed.

        Try that and see if it works.

          • kill_dash_nine@lemm.eeEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Did they mention external device access? I only see a mention of portable LibreWolf which I assume is referring to the “can just be ran from a folder dropped anywhere on the filesystem” version of portable, not necessarily that it’s an external device.

          • moe93@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            4 months ago

            This sort of exaggeration is typically used for comedic effect. Sorry for trying to throw a smile on a random person’s face. You must be very fun to hang around at parties.

      • Qkall@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        ah you too work for a company that will let you install firefox but no extensions or addons??

        fml

        • kill_dash_nine@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 months ago

          My company enforces specific add-ons for Firefox so I installed and use LibreWolf which our admins don’t lock down - only Chrome and Firefox. I wanted a browser that I would use separately from my work that didn’t specifically need their add-ons which include traffic sniffing crap. I know that if I want to do any personal browsing and guarantee it’s personal, I should use my own device but I was honestly just annoyed by the additional CPU cycles the security add-ons were using.

        • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 months ago

          We handle a lot of IP so I can’t install anything on the PC that isn’t pre-approved (like MS Teams). I am able to add certain extensions like Ublock but not others like Keepa (Amazon price tracker).

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I strongly suspect that is exactly what they’re trying to stop.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        To add: the CEO got kicked out of Mozilla and switched to crypto after he was caught donating to outlaw gay marriage.

        • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          that was before 2008 as far as i can tell, has eich and/or the organisation continued to act homophobicly?

          • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            4 months ago

            He got caught sending money to a bigoted organization, got in trouble, and then embraced dark money.

            Until he makes it right to the LGBTQ+ community and makes his finances public, only a fool or another bigot would give him the benefit of the doubt.

        • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          not enabled by default, but if you want to use them, yes

          i haven’t seen a single ad or been annoyed by any crypto shite so far

          • terabytes@lemm.eeEnglish
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            4 months ago

            I installed Brave earlier this week and that’s mostly true. There’s some built in stuff that will show by default, notably the toolbar buttons and the notification style alert on the new tab page for one of those things mentioned, but you can just close the notification and remove the toolbar buttons and you’re set.

            That said, I think it’s still in the data monetization market like Alphabet with anonymized tokens, though I don’t remember the details.

            • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              4 months ago

              this is disabled by default, i think that is the BAT system that also uses crypto somehow

              i also made a handful of tweaks to tidy up the UI, easily done in the settings

        • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          ps. Brave has also built-in P2P and TOR features among other features

          actually an interesting browser

          • Grangle1@lemm.eeEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Be careful with the Tor features, they allow you to open some onion sites but don’t supply the extra anonymity/security of the actual Tor browser.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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        4 months ago

        No. Brave has a history of modifying links you click on to add affiliate information. The only time to use Brave is if user agent spoofing for “chrome only” websites doesn’t make it work.

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Right, but I don’t trust them as a result and I don’t feel comfortable recommending them or not pointing it out. Meddling with links you click is malware behavior.

          • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Also the recent case when they installed VPN. In general, they give off the impression that they don’t respect users’ consent a lot. Mozilla has been similarly sneaky, like with the opt-out ad tracking recently - thus I would only consider Librewolf or hardening - but Brave seems to be more extreme in their advertising business.

            • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              4 months ago

              the VPN was a feature of the software at the time and not enabled unless you signed up but as you point out if software changes its service without explicitly telling users these days it feels bad

              • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
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                4 months ago

                Welll yeah - point was that they installed a service without consent. And not just a browser feature, but something crossing a whole another boundary. AFAIK also, while the tunnel itself was not enabled, the service itself was turned on automatically.

        • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          ps. i also first started using Brave when certain streaming sites refused to work in Firefox :)

    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      when I swapped my laptops, I already had chrome on the newer ones which I’m still using, but when I heard about this ublock origin saga, I started putting all my passwords in protonpass, and customised my Firefox install to my liking, CSS and everything. All ready to switch now, and I’m gonna be thanking my past self profusely for actually choosing to switch instead of vegetating.

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
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        4 months ago

        I used it for a while. It honestly was a really good browser for a long time but since everything started going this shit it quickly fell from my good graces.

        The only time I even think of missing it is when I have to open a page that is optimized against Firefox on purpose because the developers decided to use some janky Javascript plugin and didn’t test.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It’s totally ok. I’ve phased Chrome out in the beginning of the year already.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It’d be great if Cloudflare sites supported Firefox. No matter what I do, it always gives me the “prove you’re a human” checkbox loop.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Interesting. I use Firefox on everything at home, usually windows or android, and I rarely get those. Could it be one of your extensions? Proxy?

      • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        You likely have a “better” IP address than OP. I have old DSL and new LTE, on the LTE I get captchas all the time, on DSL my experience was the same AS yours.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        No proxy. I’ve tried disabling the likely extensions with no change. It’s not the builtin anti-tracking stuff, either.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I have always used Firefox on all my devices, except for one: the Chromebook I was forced to buy because of compatibility with my college’s test proctoring spyware.

    On that device, not only did uBlock Origin quit working the other day, but today Chrome even kept disabling uBlock Lite with the error message that “This extension reloaded itself too frequently”. It could be some kind of legitimate bug, but it sure feels a lot like foul play on Google’s part.