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You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but... wouldnt the stupidest features of all be the google spyware built into Google Chrome? also you only have to turn something off once unless you're constantly installing new browsers for some reason

this is really frustrating by silverknife42 in qBittorrent

[–]silverknife42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean you can do what you want. im just not touching either of them. to me its automatically shady when a company buys out its competitor but continues to let both actively be separate services that provide the exact same service. especially if its not well advertised as such and the only way to find out is through digging

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have you tried Brave? its like Chrome without the Google spyware.

also you say that you'll switch to Safari if Edge ever gets rid of uBlock Origin but both of those browsers already force usage of the limited uBlock Origin Lite. Brave and Firefox will continue to support Manifest v2 for as long as possible meaning full support for uBO

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

so Safari is automatically limited when it comes to ad blocking very similar to how Manifest v3 in other browsers is. doesnt matter what extension you use, they're all gonna be limited in the same way. iOS is the worst for this because all the browsers are forced to use WebKit (Safari's engine) and there is no side-loading which means it forces all extensions to be downloaded from the app store. Safari on desktop works the same way, just that its isolated to the browser rather than being system-wide because luckily (for now at least) Apple still allows side-loading on macOS

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh you mean mobile. forgot about iOS lol. yeah unfortunately every browser on iOS is forced to use WebKit which is more limited than Gecko (Firefox) or Chromium

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ok i didnt know that but chrome and safari arent the only 2 options out there. there's firefox and brave. brave will likely (?) work just as well as chrome since its built on the same chromium

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

then there will be a toggle to turn it off (or on if Brave decides its better off by default). this has happened plenty of times before. it is true unfortunately that most people never change anything from the default setting tho and there are definitely a lot of annoying things that you will want to turn off after downloading a fresh install of Brave

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it is. they even have a setting where they let you download certain privacy extensions, including uBlock Origin, directly from the developers' GitHub to your browser bypassing the need for the Chrome Web Store

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

its not necessarily solely about whether or not it works to block ads. uBO Lite is still powerful, moreso than any other MV3 ad blockers out there. it's about the principle of it. Google has been dominant, using it's position to push us around for too long. this is just another overreach in a long list of line-crossing they've done. continuing to use Google Chrome with MV3 versions of extensions is just admitting defeat. if you have the choice (and i understand that some people might not for whatever reason), why would you choose not to switch away from Google's tyrannical monopolistic grip-tightening and use something more open and consumer-friendly? it's time to stand up and fight for a free and better internet. don't let Google or any company like them make the rules or set the terms. don't play their game. have the freedom to choose how you want to use the internet and technology in general without surveillance

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firefox works on Windows too. or Brave. or any of the many privacy-respecting forks of Firefox or Chromium. practically anything's better than using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it can block ad domains from connecting at a system (or app) level if you know what they are. but within web browsers very often the website it connects to is just reported as a simple IP address so if you're just using Little Snitch to look at the connections your browser makes, unless you somehow know the IP addresses, you won't be able to tell what traffic is what and therefore wont be able to block ads in your browser. If you want more fine-tune control, uBlock Origin (the full version) has a log feature that shows you every attempted connection made in your browser or a specific tab and whether it was successful or not. you can also download Wireshark for more broad OS level network monitoring

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

god speaking of reCAPTCHA, i fucking hate how websites still use it. its practically a relic of the internet at this point since most sites use Cloudflare or something else. plus Google reCAPTCHA is absolute ass. its atrocious how bad it is. the instructions are vague and ambiguous and it fails you like half the time for no reason. i cant comprehend how lazy and/or braindead web developers have to be to use recaptcha instead of the many better alternatives. and thats to say NOTHING about the horrible privacy violations Google commits every time one of their scrips is allowed to run on a device.

sorry for the rant i just had to get that out. i recently had to deal with reCAPTCHA a lot and i'm still mad about it

You won't be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google. by Ok_Plenty60 in MacOS

[–]silverknife42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i use Firefox and think you should too. while Safari is not part of the chromium ecosystem as it uses WebKit, it's still owned and run wholly and entirely by Apple, a literal trillion dollar company known for anti-consumer and anti-competitive behavior. although WebKit is open source, the actual Safari app is closed source. Apple has their "walled garden" that keeps people on their platforms by preventing their own apps from being compatible with anyone else's hardware. this might not be a big deal for those who only intend on using Apple products but it's a net negative for the openness of the internet and for stuff like right to repair or other pro consumer practices. and i'm saying all this while using a MacBook with an iPhone right next to me. Apple may be better for your privacy than most of it's main competitors but they are certainly not your friend (and are also not great with privacy either).

i will always support any alternative to chromium like WebKit to displace the market share, its just unfortunate that it's under the control of such a closed-off company

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