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cheese_greater ,

uBlock Origin

akilou ,

Any numbers from Mozilla about increase in usage or anything?

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

I switched from Chrome and it was seamless. After a few weeks I didn’t notice any negative difference.

Tom_bishop ,

Without this fiasco, i would’ve still use chrome. Yeah, now i use firefox.

Sheeple ,
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

I used to use edge. Switched to Firefox and started using duckduckgo out of protest after my pal got screwed over by Google products

heygooberman ,
@heygooberman@lemmy.today avatar

While I largely agree with the options that Tuta provides, I think the article could’ve been more succinct and to the point if they condensed all the Firefox forks like PaleMoon and WaterFox under one category. Also, I’m not sure if Brave should be on this list, not just because of their Chromium foundation but also because of their use of cryptocurrency, something I consider very suspicious and unsustainable. Finally, I question whether DuckDuckGo should be on the list. True, they are more private when compared to Google and all, but aren’t they limited to what they can block through their contract with Microsoft? I remember hearing/reading something about that.

Sheeple ,
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

Brave is even worse. The people behind it donate to an anti LGBT org.

Evil_Shrubbery ,

The best time was always.

sir_reginald ,
@sir_reginald@lemmy.world avatar

why the Freenet logo and not I2P? Freenet is not designed with privacy in mind, unlike I2P which literally stands for the Invisible Internet Project.

smileyhead ,

How Freenet declares itself as a replacement of WWW and Internet, while what is does is delivering WWW sites on the Internet…

BlackSkinnedJew ,

Or you can DNS level blocking + NewPipe(SponsorBlock)

Lyricism6055 ,

dns level blocking doesn’t work nearly as well as ublock. Not sure what newpipe is (checking it out now), but pihole misses a ton of things that ublock can do. Ublock can also hide elements from things like “disable your ad blocker” messages that always pop up.

I’m definitely wanting to swap back to firefox, but idk who the hell decided to remove PWA support from FF… hopefully they bring that back.

BlackSkinnedJew ,

Yeah DNS blocking it’s not perfect but it works almost on all apps WO having to install anything in the OS, I’m using right now NextDNS+NewPipe(SponsorBlock)+ViMusic+Brave and everything it’s going smooth AF. For services like Facebook and YouTube you need forcedly use a free front-end or a modded app.

rustydomino ,
@rustydomino@lemmy.world avatar

pi-hole works great for blocking ads on IoT devices. My number one client that gets the most blocks from my pi-hole is my Roku device.

netchami ,

Don’t use Brave, LibreWolf is far better and unlike Brave it doesn’t support the Chromium monopoly

BlackSkinnedJew ,

Is there any good alternative for Brave over Android?

netchami ,

Mull is great

BlackSkinnedJew ,

I will check it mate thx for the info 👍👍

teejay ,

pihole misses a ton of things that ublock can do

This seems like more of an issue of the adlists you use in pihole. Pihole’s blocking is only as good as the adlists you use on it. I’ve been running a pihole on my home network for years, and I find that as long as I take a few minutes to update the adlists (add new ones, remove dead ones) once or twice a year, it nukes nearly everything. And it’s amazing for blocking things on IoT devices where ublock origin will never be a thing.

Also, they’re not mutually exclusive – one can certainly use both. I use pihole on my home network, and run ffox + UBO on my computers and phone.

Lyricism6055 ,

There are ads baked in to some websites. Facebook ads make it past pihole.

I personally use both at home I’m just saying pihole doesn’t get everything that unlock does so I always run both

baatliwala ,

I mean you can do that and use Firefox, it’s not going to hurt.

BlackSkinnedJew ,

Yeah I definitely have to try Firefox at least to know how it run nowdays.

netchami ,

+1 for DNS level ad/tracker blocking. Everyone should check out NextDNS or self host Pi-Hole.

You should still use Firefox or LibreWolf though. Mull is awesome on mobile, it’s the closest thing to LibreWolf.

For YouTube, you can use alternative clients like Piped or Invidious in combination with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links. On mobile, I recommend LibreTube for Android, Yattee with this guide on iOS and SmartTubeNext on Android TV.

BlackSkinnedJew ,

👍👍 thx for the info mate…

ava ,

for anyone wondering, there’s already a manifest v3 version of ublock origin available from the same developer.

fleton ,

I wonder how handicapped it is

smeenz ,

Yes but ubol (ublock origin lite) , is limited in what it can block. It may or may not affect users, depending on how they had ubo configured.

See the author’s FAQ:

github.com/…/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)

pearsche ,

I only install UBO and never configure it, so perhaps UBOL will be fine

ava ,

as long as you set it to ‘Optimal’ or ‘Complete’ it’s going to be able to block YouTube ads for example. that’s the main thing I missed while trying out dns adblockers and as such it’s definitely not too limited for me

MrSqueezles ,

Last I checked, Firefox had also been switching to Manifest v3 because they’re also combating the tide of add-ons that pretend to do something useful, but actually steal your information. They asked uBlock at least a few times how they could build Manifest v3 in a way that’d be compatible. Instead of the browser asking about each URL, thereby giving the add-on access to personal information, uBlock could tell the browser what to block. uBlock’s answer was always, “No. That’s not good enough. Give the add-on access to URLs.” It seemed to me like every time uBlock was approached, they turned to news sites to complain and IIR, the feature that would have given uBlock some functionality was removed from v3 because if nobody’s going to use it, why build it?

I wonder, now that uBlock has conflated the discussion of, “How much should extensions be able to see and modify URLs you’re visiting?”, with, “v3 is a war on ad blockers!”, how quickly Firefox will move forward with v3, if at all.

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

I think a lot of people don’t realize what a gaping security hole extensions can be. Back in the 2000s, I’d install almost anything that seemed useful without realizing the amount of data that goes through them.

yoz ,

There’s so many post about Firefox. Mozilla should throw some money at Lemmy devs for free marketing.

Barbarian ,
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works avatar

Is it surprising that a userbase for an open-source online forum with no ads are advocates for an open-source browser that can remove ads?

negativeyoda ,

pushed up glasses

It motivated me to finally set up pi hole in my old raspberry pi I wasnt using, so there’s that

arakash ,

doesn’t help with youtube ads unfortunately

KairuByte ,
@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

A mix of things helps. For most, pi hole/adguard home covers you. For YouTube ads there are a large number of addons and extensions that still cover that. (I actually pay for family premium out of Turkey for various reasons.)

On TV you’ve got iSponsorBlock which can both mute and auto skip (when the skip button becomes available) the ads when they come up, with the added benefit of being able to skip in video sponsoring/ads. And it doesn’t even need to be running on your local network.

There are solutions, just gotta dig around a little bit.

negativeyoda ,

Generally no, but I’ve noticed a couple of times where it said “1 of 2 ads”, 1 ad played, there was a pause, and it went back to the content.

I try to use Libretube on mobile

SeaJ ,

I use Firefox but there are web apps that just plain do not test on it. Office 365 is one of those and Word is basically non functional…more than normal.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I can’t even log in to Lemmy properly on FireFox for mobile. And many drop down type selection boxes across tons of websites also do not work on either mobile or desktop versions of FireFox; this one irritates me most, because this was an issue years ago when I first was using it before Chrome existed and one of the reasons I originally switched to Chrome over FF at that time. It’s been over 10 years and still hasn’t been fixed.

Gabu ,

Never encountered either problem.

Delusion6903 ,

not here either

Sheeple ,
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

For me it’s the opposite. There’s a few sites that have a lot of problems with chrome but work all fine with Firefox. But then these pages are also a good decade old

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

In my former job, I had no choice but use Chrome due to work rules. If I couldn’t have installed uBlock at the time, it would have killed me. So I hope for people like me, there’s at least an adblocker that has a small chance of working in Chrome.

Flaky ,
@Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Vivaldi has an adblocker built-in but has no cosmetic filtering unfortunately. I did ask and they said it’s been prioritised given the MV3 problems.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

If they were in my situation, installing another browser was not an option, but installing Chrome extensions was still possible.

Flaky ,
@Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

In that case, it’s best to hope the workplace enables the enterprise policy.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Well that sucks.

ParetoOptimalDev ,

I’m curious if “must use browser X” is a deal breaker for many people.

Would you quit a job for forcing a specific browser?

seasick ,

For me it was the OS. We agreed, when I started my job, that I would use Windows but that I would eventually switch to Linux, which I did a few months in. If they wouldn’t allow it, although agreed upon, I would have left - which I did anyways, but for totally different reasons

limerod ,

Considering, the mobile browser also has addons and will gain hundreds more in a few months. It’s a no-brainer.

Gumus ,

This. Youtube is getting progressively more annoying (my train to switch on PC), but what pushed me was Dark Reader on mobile.

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