uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store : technology

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 376 points 1 year ago

laughs in Firefox

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 90 points 1 year ago

Cries in only Chrome and Edge at work 😢

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 year ago

Tell your IT.

[-] takeda@lemm.ee 64 points 1 year ago

Yeah. What company wouldn't allow it?

When I was working for an ad exchange, everyone had adblock installed in their browsers, I found that quite ironic.

[-] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 61 points 1 year ago

I would argue it's a security issue not to have any ad blocking. Many scams online start with popups or fake ads.

So if you get the opportunity to talk to IT that's what I would mention.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

A good IT is blocking ads at a company-level. Browser extensions wouldn’t matter, and in fact, shouldn’t be allowed for the same reason.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

You can only catch so much at the edge and DNS level. Browser extension catches the stragglers that get through. But we've mitigated virtually all browser induced malware possibilities by just moving to cloud-based internet isolation. It's similar to what the DoD uses, if anyone's familiar with their use case: https://www.bylight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CBII_2020-2025.pdf

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 33 points 1 year ago

Officially only Edge is supported, but Chrome is tolerated. It's a full MS environment.

[-] reev@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same here. The worst thing is in their justification of disallowing Firefox they listed that it was not an enterprise application. I get that it might be extra effort to support it but don't list something factually untrue as a lame cop out for why you don't want to.

[-] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Was told it wouldn't be allowed because you couldn't restrict it using GPO... Until I told them they could absolutely apply those restrictions using GPO and even provided the ADMX templates.

load more comments (5 replies)

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Download Firefox portable

[-] SnotFlickerman 37 points 1 year ago

At large organizations you're generally not allowed to download much of anything without it passing through IT security and management first. If it's a no, it will probably stay a no.

load more comments (7 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (12 replies)

load more comments (9 replies)

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 261 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[removed by mod]

[-] RobMyBot@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Been a loooong time

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (8 replies)

[-] Nanook@lemm.ee 235 points 1 year ago

Google is not an IT company. It’s an advertising company. Surprised Pikachu, it blocks ad blockers.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

It's been an ad company for a long time, though, and blocking ad blockers is new.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Because they are at the end of their growth phase and have entered their squeeze until dead phase.

load more comments (4 replies)

[+] Jimius@lemmy.ml 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[deleted]

[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago

uBO is not just an ad blocker, its almost a firewall against malware and a tracking filter

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im old enough to remember the internet before ads, and with ads became a thing and you had to make sure to keep your speakers low/off all the time less some screaming loud ad popped up somewhere to burst your eardrums at 2am.

There were so many obnoxious, visual cancer ads.

Then they became actual digital cancer by being injection points for viruses and malware, and thus adblockers became a necessity.

And they remain a necessity to this day, for the same reason as they were 20+ years ago.

and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking.

not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (5 replies)

[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 97 points 1 year ago

But ublock origin lite is by the same dev.. Not as many features but it conforms to the new rules and is still much better than not having a blocker if you use chrome or edge.

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 1 year ago

Missing critical features:

Filter lists only update with the extension, you cannot update them dynamically

No making your own filters and thus no element picker for blocking annoyances on a webpage (a feature so good apple literally baked it into safari)

No support for external lists (which means if you back up your own filters into a list you cannot easily reimport)

No changing behavior on a per site basis

A number of other features as well that are more strictly power user features but still really handy like dynamic filtering and strict blocking domains.

If you have the option stop using chrome and edge, they are some of the worst options you could choose. Even outside of adblock and manifest v3 chrome is horrendous for data harvesting bullshit and edge isn’t great. If you don’t have the option because of an overzealous it dept or whatever and are forced to use it ubo lite is your best option probably and my heart goes out to you

load more comments (6 replies)

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 year ago

Or just use Firefox

load more comments (7 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

Chrome is no longer available on my computer.

load more comments (3 replies)

[-] knexcar@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

This is probably the single thing that got me to switch to Firefox. Privacy whatever, I don’t care about my data or the morality of my tech company or whatever, but mess with my adblocker and goodbye.

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

Can I have your bank account username and password?

[-] knexcar@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

No

load more comments (12 replies)

load more comments (14 replies)

[-] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 64 points 1 year ago

Use firefox

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago

And if you don't like Firefox, use one of the Firefox forks. Some of them are very Chrome-like.

load more comments (8 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

the what store now

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

I take this as a sign that it genuinely still works to block ads and hasn’t sold out and become malware like those others that used to be popular.

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] jk1006@feddit.org 35 points 1 year ago

I am from Germany and it is just sad how many people use these apps from shit companies without thinking, when suitable alternatives exist everywhere. Just use Firefox, it will work for 99,9% without any flaw. I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but could only convinge a few people to change to Signal. It is as easy as downloading a new app to prevent supporting Meta, but that's too much effort for many :-(

load more comments (5 replies)

[+] g4nd41ph@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

[deleted]

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

never had a problem with firefox and youtube

[-] ysjet@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I know what he's talking about- there was some javascript spec or something that google proposed, and nobody else bought in, so it never actually became part of javascript's standard.

But google implemented it into chrome's javascript engine anyway, and then used it for youtube. There was some fallback code if the new functions weren't available, but, because of a 'mistake' they didn't work and basically made playback ass for a while until the open source community basically debugged and fixed the issue FOR google, and then spent a few weeks cramming it down google's throat that it needed fixed.

load more comments (4 replies)

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments (9 replies)

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

There's a way to save your already-installed extension, in "Manage Extensions..." Enable dev mode, then Pack Extension.

However the browser will probably just refuse to run it soon.

Vivaldi, for what it's worth, seems to still run uBlock Origin just fine. I am afraid to uninstall it now to test if it'll re-install properly.

My version: 7.1.3570.39 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

Might be time to finally move to Firefox though, if Vivaldi doesn't keep Manifest V2 support.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi isn't even fully open-source anyway, so it's worth leaving regardless.

load more comments (3 replies)

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And that is why I went to Firefox once Google announced this bullshit.

Swapping is pretty painless. It even brings over all your passwords and stuff these days. Best get to swapping before Google disable that as well. They'd just love to keep you hostage.

[-] samTheSwiss@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Use a third party password manager, don’t rely on browser default ones

load more comments (5 replies)

[-] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

Everyone should ditch chrome

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 23 points 1 year ago

They hate us

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] MindlessHunter4@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Glad I don't use chrome anymore. Though unfortunately everyone else I know still does.

[-] jam_scot@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I switched to Firefox many years ago, after their announcement I switched to Waterfox and I'm very happy with it.

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

I really hope some team has been following the changes in Chrome/Chromium by Google to remove Manifest v2, and has been keeping a patchset that will undo the damage? Time to make a hard fork and get some funding to try to keep it going?

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Didn't consider chrome before and still wont

Technology

Our Rules

Approved Bots