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.
    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      6 天前

      That is impossible for many people for the same reason why they still on Xitter, etc. They believe, that with enough willpower, the people ruining our software infrastructure can be convinced for the better. And also many people still believe that if you criticize their “meme browser” made by the cool “don’t be evil” company, you’re a Microsoft shill forcing them to use IE, that is buggy and slow.

      • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
        91·
        5 天前

        It blows my mind how many people use chrome over edge thinking that they are making super smart choice. I feel like I was still seeing memes on reddit making fun of Edge over Chrome.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        6 天前

        And also many people still believe that if you criticize their “meme browser” made by the cool “don’t be evil” company, you’re a Microsoft shill forcing them to use IE, that is buggy and slow

        Which I find absolutely hilarious, as Edgemium is a better browser than chrome. I still use Firefox first and foremost, but at work when I have to use something else, it performs better and has better features IMO.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          5 天前

          They’re the same browser though. They use the same rendering engine, same JavaScript engine, etc. There are more similarities than differences.

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            5 天前

            They’re the same browser though.

            They actually aren’t the same browser, since MS rips out some stuff and adds their own. Including features I like tree style tabs.

            It’s a similar and derivative browser, but they aren’t the same.

            There are more similarities than differences.

            You can say the same about tons of things, but the differences are what matters. You and I share more similarities than differences, just like the browsers, but we aren’t the same person.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              5 天前

              They’re the same in the ways I care about, which is rendering and javascript engines. I’m a developer, that’s what matters to me. I rarely interact with extra features, and I can get most of what’s unique about a given browser with extensions.

              • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                5 天前

                Right, the rendering engine is the same, that’s still not the browser. Again, just because it’s a derivative browser doesn’t make it the same browser.

                • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  5 天前

                  I kinda think it does. I use a gecko browser as my main, and I use a chromium browser as my backup. I don’t use most of the default features, I just need a handful of extensions, and those are available everywhere.

                  So to me they’re pretty much the same. Brave is a little different since it embeds an ad blocker, but besides that, the rest of the chromium browsers are equivalent for me.

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
    1662·
    7 天前

    As they note in the article, this is a temporary measure, I.E. guaranteed to break soon.

    Start switching to Firefox now so you’re done when they finally turn it of. Ignore any other Chromium based browsers, it’s unlikely they have the manpower to extend MV2 beyond what Google supports with their LTS releases.

    • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      431·
      7 天前

      Completely anecdotally, but I’ve noticed that in the last few months, ublock origin installs on the Mozilla addons site has gone up. So i think people are already moving.

    • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.caEnglish
      1039·
      7 天前

      Firefox on iOS doesn’t offer any ad blocking. Vivaldi (and several other) Chromium browsers do. So for a good chunk of the mobile community, Firefox is not the best option.

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
        561·
        7 天前

        Blame Apple for that, as for the longest time they only allowed using the Safari engine on iOS. Apparently that’s still the case outside the EU now, meaning Mozilla would need to maintain two versions on iOS.

        On any other operating system, Firefox is by far the best at blocking ads with uBlock Origin.

        • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 天前

          Orion browser on iOS supports Firefox and Chrome extensions. It’s relatively new still, but I’ve been using it without any issue with uBO

      • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        141·
        7 天前

        Apple limits mobile browsers a shit ton. When you get Firefox on iOS, you don’t get Firefox, you get what’s basically a safari front end. This is the reason you can install uBlock Origin or other extensions on the android version of Firefox, but be unable on the iOS version.

        • supermurs@kbin.earth
          64·
          6 天前

          I know mate, but this isn’t about installing extensions. Both Vivaldi and Brave have built-in adblockers in their iOS versions. That is not prevented or restricted by Apple.

      • supermurs@kbin.earth
        92·
        7 天前

        Yep, I wish Firefox stepped up in this matter, since their competition can implement decent adblockers on iOS, while dealing with the exact same limitations Apple has set.

        • Sequence5666@lemmy.worldEnglish
          103·
          7 天前

          Ios is never going to allow this. The best option is pihole and vpn

          Ads are necessary curse for humanity. The general mass will never switch to open source or challenging alternatives and it sux

          • supermurs@kbin.earth
            51·
            6 天前

            iOS already allows adblocker features for 3rd party browsers. Both Vivaldi and Brave have working adblockers, but Firefox does not.

        • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.caEnglish
          51·
          5 天前

          Thank you. Glad one person has the ability to actually comprehend what I said. Vivaldi - and several others - does ad blocking on iOS right now.

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
    1212·
    7 天前

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

  • Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
    234·
    5 天前

    JUST FU***** CHANGE BROWSER ALREADY! Why you have to be so stupid to use Chrome?

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 天前

      According to the people I know, “It’s better” because they won the browser speed race without looking at anything else.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    911·
    7 天前

    you can enable ublock in chrome by downloading firefox from chrome, installing it, then installing ublock in firefox and finally removing chrome

  • tfm@europe.pubEnglish
    15·
    5 天前

    You can still block ads while shoving your data up Google’s ass, here is how.

    Don’t use Chrome

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    7 天前

    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
      14·
      7 天前

      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.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    382·
    6 天前

    I’m struggling with the concept of people putting effort into using uBlock Origin with Chrome.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      102·
      6 天前

      I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.

      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        291·
        6 天前

        I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.

        I bet those sites will play nice if you switch your user-agent to display as chrome.

        • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 天前

          My new rent portal is one of these sites. Can’t just not pay rent because I don’t like chromium browsers.

          • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            6 天前

            Rent portal? You mean bank account with direct debit and/or electronic transfer. What is a rent portal? How can you possibly benefit from having a website just to act as a middle man to collect your personal info?

            • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 天前

              Because not everyone has a bank account. Some people get paid via a cash card or similar (as an alternative to paper checks or direct deposit if they don’t have a bank account). This allows them to pay in alternate ways. But additionally all trouble calls/maintenance requests are done through that same portal. I signed my lease through it.

        • rozodru@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 天前

          well this is just silly advice. that’s like saying “Don’t use Chrome, use Vivaldi” it’s all chromium thus it will also disable uBlock.

          Get off ALL chromium based browsers. I loved Vivaldi but I haven’t used it in well over a year. Switch to FF or a Fork of it like Floorp OR if you’re like me and don’t like Mozilla use QuteBrowser and never have to worry about anything ever again.

          • ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            6 天前

            Well some haven’t disabled ublock yet. So it isn’t that silly if chrome based is what they need to run for certain sites. Just use something that is based off it and isn’t stoping ublock yet.

    • Kyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 天前

      I’m honestly looking for an answer for my specific use case and unfortunately no other browser seems to be able to do this (I last looked into this in earnest near the beginning of the year). I am a consultant and work on multiple customers systems (web based system) all of which use a common single sign in provider. Unfortunately this means that in a single browser session, I can only be logged into one customer at one time. Yes, I know I can use multiple browsers but I sometimes touch 10 different systems in a day and need to switch between them easily and quicly. Yes, I know I can do this in Firefox but Firefox doesn’t break each sandboxed session into it’s own container with its own customized icon in the taskbar within windows.

      With chrome I can create as many local profiles as I want, one for each of my customers and each with their own unique icons. Each profile has its own add-ons, caches etc. and I can quickly switch back and forth between them visually from the taskbar.

      I do not want to continue having to using Chrome so if someone has a solution that gives me chrome profiles without the google, I would love that so much.

      • JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 天前

        Firefox has a new profiles experience in v138 and up. Each can have its own extensions and settings. If you’ve got more than one you can switch in the taskbar. The only thing you might be missing is using multiple profiles at once?

      • ___@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        6 天前

        Have you looked into Firefox Multi Account Containers? I use this extension to quickly switch between multiple tab groups, some of which do use SSO while using the same service (e.g. Outlook). Plus, you can easily create new tabs like Ctrl + Shift + (#1-9) to open a container of your choice among other shortcuts. I know it doesn’t meet all your criteria, but each tab group has its own colour and/or icon to make them distinct, while being in the same window

    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 天前

      I use Firefox on everything EXCEPT my Steam Deck. Firefox will not let you open the dropdown menu to exit, make videos fullscreen etc. And when a notification pops up, your firefox is now 100 by 30 pixels…

      I wish they would fix it already…

      I can use firefox in desktop mode but i don’t like having to switch to desktop mode and wait for everything. Then switch back to play something.