Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
Why the fuck does anyone use Chrome? It's shittier than Firefox in every way and is still a leaky memory hog
It's the only browser installed at my work and they won't give me admin access
Me 15 years ago, using Firefox Portable with an Internet Explorer container plugin so I can use trash web apps the organization refuses to update.
Firefox can literally do 99% of websites
The websites that don't work are actually just poorly designed or made by Google (not mutually exclusive).
Everyone knows what Google is, therefore its products are superior even when they’re dogshit. No one knows what Mozilla is
uBlock Origin fans can rest at ease since a new and improved version is already available - uBlock Origin Lite
it's new and improved if you count regressions in functionality as an improvementThe Lite version's capabilities are relatively limited
Words don't mean anything and I hate it.
When shrinkflation advertising comes for your advertising blocking software.
Chrome users
well, there's your problem
We will welcome them to Firefox.
adblocking dns providers are a great no-system-resource, no-battery-usage solution that works in any app/program (not only browsers) and can be added for any system, as well as better online privacy especially using encrypted dns
independent-run with added top-level domain support:
corporate:
FireFox and Chrome both have settings to add encrypted dns for the browser.
Recommend setting adblocking dns as default on router if possible, sort of makes any router a pi-hole and then automatically sets these as default for any connected device so you can set it once and don’t have to do every device. Try to use at least two different providers for setups with primary/secondary/tertiary in case one has a temporary outage.
Excellent info. Saving this for later.
Does this block YouTube ads?
It can't block same domain advertisements, but you can use a proxy such as Invidious, an alternative front end such as FreeTube or Grayjay (Android) or pipe that shit into MPV and use an RSS feed reader.
it’s a first line of defense against ads, tracking, malware, and phishing for every device and program that access the internet. as hello2 mentions it can’t stop everything. for something like youtube additional solutions are needed.
Including to vastly more malware ads..
Gonna be really funny if it causes something that makes the whole crowdstrike thing look tame by comparison
I once stood behind someone and watched them click on a banner ad that says “DOWNLOAD NOW!” while trying to download Notepad++
They didn’t see it on the list of apps, so they refreshed the page and clicked on a different download banner ad and installed a second malware lol
almost all of those general websites for winblows executables seem to have ads pretending to be download buttons, like 100% of the time, it seems like natural fauna of the windows ecosystem at this point.
First off don't use chrome.
If you do use it. I don't know use a dns.
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Also websites are going to start blocking firefox citing low user counts but you know what the real reason is
small differences/invisible watermarks that uniquely identify
This has never worked so far lol. Their "invisible watermark" always ruins the media even beyond treathog consumption levels.
Otherwise is there anything the individual user should be doing, short of not buying smart TVs (me) and not buying TPM chipped computers?
You're interpreting the term watermark too literally
It will be a small unique arrangement of just a few pixels to identify the user
It can even be distributed across the screen pixel by pixel to make it less noticeable
All they'd have to do is make each pixel 1 hex code lighter or darker or something
Assuming each pixel can have no change, 1 step lighter, or 1 step darker, it'd only take 22 pixels to cover 31B accounts = 3^22
I believe there's 25B Google accounts in total out there atm
How do you have these emojis?
Hexbear has accumulated a vast amount of emojis over time.
I still think this is a quite an unrealistically pessimistic outlook, so long as there are a decent handful of privacy-interested technerds, it'll be effectively impossible. The DVD encryption code was initially hailed as the end of piracy, but it was broken about 7 days into being released.
The adage remains true, to keep a thing secret and secure, you have to be perfect at security 100% of the time. To hack a thing, copy it a million times, and make it effectively public, it takes one lucky break. Perfect security is logically impossible, people will find a way.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Damn they're actually going through with it...
In related news I recently set up a DNS server in my home network with adware/malware blocking and set my router to use it as static DNS so my whole house has to use it, including my parents. It was shockingly easy to do with NixOS.
I'm going to make a separate post on how I did it using an old Thinkpad x220 in case anyone is interested or I get around to doing it.
Anyway, use Firefox and ffprofile creator, it's not that hard.
Please make this post!
I did this and my mother complained because it was blocking the ad slop she likes to click on
sads. My mom has yet to complain.
Which way did you set up an adblocking DNS with NixOS? Blocky?
I've got an old raspberry pi running pihole. But I've also got a tiny headless computer doing my routing which is using NixOS. (As of yet I'm too much of a novice to set up all the firewall rules myself, so I have OPNsense running in a VM...) It'd be nice if I could just obsolete the pi and unify all my stuff into the router for more frequent updates.
I'm using technitium DNS server which has module in NixOS.
It seems relatively well maintained and has what I need (web interface, one click set up etc.)
I'm still new to this stuff so I'm figuring it out as I test things out. I didn't want to buy a raspberry pi so I used an old libreboot thinkpad I had that I never used.
NixOS modules eliminate a lot of the jank involved which is why I use it, I've also used NixOS as a desktop in the past so it only makes sense.
Wait, there's only 30 mil Chrome users? I thought there were way more than that
The count is supposedly closer to 3 billion, but the article clarifies only 30 million use ublock origin. Which seems devastatingly low to me. Why risk such a move if it only affects 1% of your userbase?
Because it only affects one percent of the userbase. There's no short term loss. Your clients (ad companies, Big Corp) see that you're Doing Something. And, more importantly, Big Tech is removing the copper wiring out of the walls. They want to monetize ad space as much as humanly possible. YouTube is already showing 4-5 ads to normies as we speak.
I do think there are a lot of users that run adblockers that are not ublock so the number might be higher in terms of adblocking users.
uBlock Origin will continue to work as usual across other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, and more.
And this right here is why I dropped Chrome like a heroin habit the minute that they started talking about Manifest v3.
piss and shid
Firefox Mobile needs Tab Grouping tho.
There are some addons that do that. That's the good thing about Firefox. Very customisable.
ffupdater gives you access to cool chrome forks, I assume at least one of them will continue to support uBlock Origin going forward.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/collections-firefox would this work? it looks like what you're talking about but i haven't used a smartphone in a while and my strategy is more tab chaos than organization so I'm not that familiar
Until Google pulls the payment they do to have it as default search engine and it goes to hell
they won't any time soon. but yeah, mozilla aren't the best stewards. Thankfully its open source and there are meaningfully maintained forks (and if mozilla tanks there will be a lot more support for them)