Google recently disabled uBlock Origin and other extensions for Chrome users with no apparent option to restore them. The good news is that you can still make uBlock Origin work. Here is how.
  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Eh.

    After years and years of Chrome I just up and switched on Friday when they finally pulled the plug.

    No regrets. No waving from the stern of the ship as I sail away from Chromeland.

    If they choose to take away a valuable tool I consider necessary for browsing the web, then I have no loyalty to them and can easily move on. Took all of 10 seconds to import my shit into Firefox and be on my way.

    Bye, Chrome. Thanks for being useful, until you weren’t.

  • Der_Fossyler@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You can, but you should just switch to Firefox or accept ads in Chromium Browsers.

    I can imagine that in the long run it will get harder for their forks to block ads with any extension.

    I can’t wait for Ladybird in the future 💪.

    • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There is no such option “accepting ads”. I will do everything in my power to block any type of ad in every device i own, no matter the diffuculty.

      • Aitolda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Oh definitely. I gave up ads about 20 years ago when I got rid of cable. Not a chance in hell I’m going back.

  • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Can’t wait till Kagi Browser releases their Linux version of a browser based on webkit, but it’s prob at least another year or more frmo being released and Gnome Web is so featureless it’s useless and can’t even play YouTube videos half the time in 2025…

      • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Librewolf is too hardened for my use case. By the time I tweak Librewolf to my liking, it’s functionally Firefox, but with a different icon, lol. Just gonna ride out Firefox for the next year or two and them jump off this ship.

  • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Ubo lite seems to work just fine for my needs, which is blocking yt ads. Everything else vivaldi or adguard catches

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeah all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages to enable Manifest 2, all in 8 easy steps (written as if it’s 6 steps to make it seem less onerous). For now. Until Google switches it off completely.

    Or, drop Chrome and Chromium based browsers (such as Edge, Vivaldi, Brave etc) in one easy step. Install a privacy respecting Firefox based browser like Firefox itself or Librewolf.

    • TurboLag@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages

      I think this is a very important point that too few people are raising and it’s getting buried under the spam of “switch to Firefox” messages. Yes, switching to Firefox is an option. But clearly some people don’t want to do it, and we give them these workarounds without saying what they really do and without highlighting that they are potentially dangerous. You use your browser for a large part of your interaction with your computer, so any downgrade in security is going to be significant. To me, the short-term implications of this are far more important than the longstanding Chrome-vs-Firefox discussion.

  • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    For those that do need to use Chrome for whatever reason, don’t bother with all this faff just use uBOL, it’s just as good as uBO

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.

  • malfisya@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Let it go bro. Just switch to Firefox & co. Or at least use it less for something that does not require ad-blocking.