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.

[u/Ok_Plenty60]

Full Article Link : https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/#google_vignette

Full in-depth Video : https://youtu.be/eQj4tyQ4dLc?si=8eH8sgyN4uTZHIzP

[u/TheJellyGoo]

No one who surfed the web without ads will ever be going back to doing it with them.

I have 25million blocked ads since installation. It would just lead to a userbase exodus. Delusional.

[u/RoastedPotato-1kg → u/TheJellyGoo]

internet its almost unusable for me without adblock, the amount of pop-ups and ads you get its insane.

[u/Hellstrom666 → u/RoastedPotato-1kg]

Especially when they quite literally cover 95% of the screen with videos and tiny hidden little X’s designed to trick you into accidentally clicking the ad and opening their website.

[u/Panzerkatzen → u/Hellstrom666]

Sometimes they have a fake X in the hopes that you miss the real x. 

[u/raduque → u/Panzerkatzen]

And sometimes, the ad just loads malware onto your PC, whether you click it or not.

[u/Unusual-Alex → u/raduque]

I had this happen in 1999 or so from cnet. Since then adblock 100%. I only turn off adblock when i absolutely must use it off like doing taxes or handling medical information as it gets aggressive filtering stuff.

[u/hUmaNITY-be-free → u/Unusual-Alex]

Lmao CNET, thanks for the nostalgia trip homie.

[u/phusion → u/hUmaNITY-be-free]

download.com!

[u/Perfect_Movie_4187 → u/raduque]

We need to be able to hold these websites accountable for issues like these.

[u/wingnuta72 → u/raduque]

This is a point that so often gets missed. Ads are a security vulnerability. Almost no work gets done to ensure they are safe in terms of their code or content.

[u/CarnalT → u/Hellstrom666]

Heck even WITH an ad blocker, some sites are almost unusable from the all the "give us your email" "choose your cookie preferences" "we notice you have an ad blocker, plz turn it off" etc etc popups which aren't even ads. 

[u/Misiok → u/Hellstrom666]

And the other side of ads is how malicious they are. Like, sometimes they will just have malware injecting itself via the ads.

[u/BlckEagle89 → u/RoastedPotato-1kg]

Is a shame how much internet was infected by ads. I'm not that stupid, I know that pages need to get money from somewhere, but some pages are literally 90% ad at this point.

I use Firefox on my PC, and I have ublock. However on my work laptop I can't install plug-ins on the browser because they are managed via policies. So everytime that I access any page on my work laptop that I usually use on work laptop it feels like this.

[u/Anxious-Slip-4701 → u/BlckEagle89]

My work installed an adblocker for us by default.

[u/fuck--nazis → u/RoastedPotato-1kg]

I use Firefox mostly and I have uBlock installed so ads never bother me. I've literally forgotten how bad it is and I get a reminder every time I have to use chrome. I get it, sites need ads to support themselves, but holy shit if many of them are invasive or are just so bad you cannot focus on the content of what you've visiting the site for.

[u/Alexandratta → u/RoastedPotato-1kg]

I would not mind ads if they did not auto-play with audio.

if your ad does this, GLADE PLUGINS, I ensure to never buy your product and will continue to drag you online anytime it comes up.

[u/neat-NEAT → u/Alexandratta]

I think playing audio without explicit consent is the most heinous crime any ux can commit. Let alone if it was for shitty ads. 

Second only to playing video without consent. 

[u/Aithnd → u/neat-NEAT]

Yeah fuck any streaming service that auto plays trailers after hovering over something for 1 second while you're reading the description.

[u/Ayaki_05 → u/Aithnd]

Not being able to turn off auto play on YouTube's website is horrendous and it feels like navigating a minefield with my cursor

At least I can turn it of on mobile

EDIT: nevermind turning off preview is possible now even on web version :D

[u/GlorpedUpDragStrip → u/Ayaki_05]

Firefox has built in settings to block auto play of any video on any website

[u/redditforwhenIwasbad → u/neat-NEAT]

The gas station ads while you pump are the worst, 90 decibel jump scare ads.

[u/Professional-Ask1699 → u/redditforwhenIwasbad]

My god that sounds dystopian.

[u/MephistoHamProducts → u/neat-NEAT]

I think playing audio without explicit consent is the most heinous crime any ux can commit. Let alone if it was for shitty ads. 

I still remember a sig line from a message board someone had back in Ye Olde Earlye Internet Dayes, in the time of dial up and (maybe) DSL and CRTs:

"If I wanted your website to make noise, I would have licked my finger and dragged it down my the glass on my monitor".

Still relevant almost 30 years later.

[u/Evantaur → u/Alexandratta]

I didn't mind the oldschool banners, but when you have a fucking ad pushing text you were just reading to the fucking orbit of the moon I'll get furious

[u/InformalSpecific8843 → u/RoastedPotato-1kg]

I wouldn't even care about the ads themselves if the ads were actually products and not just AI hentai scam games or pyramid schemes. How they get past Google's filters is beyond me, and the "don't show me these types of ads" button never works.

[u/aaron_dresden → u/InformalSpecific8843]

Google has had actual malware links show up at the top of Google search in the paid slots pretending to be legitimate companies multiple times. They are not proactive about checking everything being paid for before displaying it.

[u/ButWhatIfPotato → u/RoastedPotato-1kg]

Last week I accidentally selected to open a video on the youtube app rather than on firefox with ublock origin; 10 minute video, 7 ads. I don't understand how people are OK with this.

[u/DeadlyYellow → u/TheJellyGoo]

It takes all of five minutes to switch to Firefox with Ublock Origin.

For that reason alone most people won't do it.

[u/Professional-Row-612 → u/DeadlyYellow]

when google first started this mess i switched fully to firefox.

its been so great lol fuck chorme edge and for this reason opera GX as well. chromium can suck my dick along with any browser thats built with it. aka all but firefox.

id love to use safari or opera GX butttt. well now they suck! thanks to google.

[u/Mrnappa420 → u/Professional-Row-612]

I did the exact same. Never going back.

Was painless and the only thing thats a tad annoying is some web pages load a bit slower. Not even significantly, and that is more then a trade off for saving all the time on ads

[u/Revan7even → u/Professional-Row-612]

I never left Firefox. Used it before Chrome existed.

[u/AfonsoFGarcia → u/Professional-Row-612]

Safari doesn’t use Chromium.

[u/SlitScan → u/DeadlyYellow]

5min? it takes all of 30 seconds

[u/rudolfs001 → u/SlitScan]

Not if you have all kinds of bookmarks, saved passwords, and many extensions set up just right.

[u/Kryse-777 → u/rudolfs001]

I was hesitant at first but when all it took for me was like 2 clicks to migrate all that to Firefox, I knew I wasn't coming back.

[u/JJ_Pause → u/Kryse-777]

I put it off for a good 6 months, took 2 minutes

[u/M0zef → u/rudolfs001]

Extensions and set up I get but bookmarks and password is pretty painless with the import function on Firefox that will either find your other browser or you can create an export file with the other browser and you use it for the import on Firefox.

[u/XtraReddit → u/DeadlyYellow]

LibreWolf already has uBlock baked in.

[u/ShoddySlide5672 → u/XtraReddit]

I'm reading the panic around Google and Chrome and thinking "Do it" , been using Libre Wolf for years now xD

[u/PatchworkPrivateer → u/DeadlyYellow]

i don't understand why anyone is still using chrome.

[u/Unbelievr → u/PatchworkPrivateer]

I use Firefox for basically all my needs, but I have to open Chrome in exactly three instances:

• I need ads to work for some reason. For instance to properly track affiliate reward codes for myself when I buy from qualified stores. Firefox is too good at blocking third party stuff, so my sale isn't registered.
• The website uses browser features Firefox doesn't have. The serial API and Bluetooth bindings do not have a Firefox counterpart. Or they're still experimental.
• I need JS to be fast, or require some JS feature only Chrome has implemented and a site relies on it. Sadly, V8 is vastly more optimized than Spidermonkey (the JS engines in Chrome/FF), and for certain applications like games, Firefox is just too slow or straight up doesn't work.

Those who do web design are more or less forced to focus on things looking good in the most used browser engine, so they'll live inside Chromium for the most part.

[u/RichardBixon → u/TheJellyGoo]

It’s insane to think that there are people at board meetings who think this will be a good idea. Are they so out of touch that they think people won’t jump ship and just deal with it? 

[u/Milleuros → u/RichardBixon]

People who jump ship are a non-issue: they were not seeing ads anyways, so the lost income is low. They're betting that enough people do not jump ship such that it compensates.

[u/Flouid → u/Milleuros]

Yeah this is what others in this thread aren’t understanding. They lose nothing, because the people who will jump ship to avoid ads were never contributing to their bottom line to begin with.

[u/woutersikkema → u/Flouid]

Buuuuut, you will get bad word of mouth, and a user base exodus. Which can quixkly spiral into "don't use that trash use this instead" being the general sentiment.

[u/Drackzgull → u/Flouid]

And it's also more about future new users than current users. Current users that are blocking ads don't matter to them. Current users that aren't blocking ads (who represent the vast majority) aren't a jump ship risk.

Future users getting in on Chrome or any other Chromium browser because they're the default alternatives they see everywhere, will be less likely to even find out about ad blocking at all, if it's not an option to begin with.

[u/tinyducky1 → u/TheJellyGoo]

half a million ads blocked this month alone, i wonder what those blogs/articles actually look like

[u/Larry_The_Red → u/tinyducky1]

bad. very bad.

a single dexerto article (which is just a report of a reddit post): on this screen you can see the headline, an image from the post, and a single sentence from the article. everything else is ads. including 2 video ads playing at the same time. scroll down below the video ad and you get another single sentence of the article. then another ad. then repeat. the entire article is only 14 sentences. along with those 14 sentences you get 9 image ads and 4 video ads. and those numbers don't include the ads that are just ads for other articles on the same site

[u/das_masterful → u/Larry_The_Red]

The same article in firefox + ublock origin. Send those who don't believe your advice here.

[u/Sample-Range-745 → u/Larry_The_Red]

Fuck me - what is this cancer?!?!

I get rather angry at ads - to the point of even using SmartTube on my Android TV devices instead of the YT client. My Mrs thought it was funny how I'd crack the shits at every "ad break" that was 1-2 minutes long on a 10 minute video.

Now she never uses the actual YT app anymore and only uses SmartTube too.

[u/kdesi_kdosi → u/TheJellyGoo]

yeah, once you get used to ad-free, there is no going back

[u/Rock_Strongo → u/kdesi_kdosi]

I will straight up stop using the internet for anything other than the absolute essentials like paying my bills, etc. before I go back to browsing with ads. No hyperbole.

[u/Ferro_Giconi → u/TheJellyGoo]

lead to a userbase exodus

You are vastly overestimating what percentage of people use adblockers. The people you see on this subreddit are not a good indication of what the average person is like.

When 99% or more of people don't use adblockers, causing adblockers to no longer function won't cause a mass exodus.

[u/Tiny-Sandwich → u/Ferro_Giconi]

And more importantly - Google's main revenue is ads, if the people who were previously using ad blockers leave, there's no loss in revenue.

They'll just leave and continue to block ads on another browser.

If they stay and start viewing ads then their revenue goes up.

There's no scenario in which Google loses by disabling ad blockers.

People really out here threatening to quit chrome and YouTube. It's like threatening never to eat at a restaurant again after you've spent years dining and dashing.

They want you gone.

[u/papabeard88 → u/TheJellyGoo]

I have ads blocked on my phone, laptop, and desktop.

Every time someone shows me something on their phone I die a little inside because all I see are ads. Can't believe people live like that.

[u/Saorren → u/TheJellyGoo]

the problems with ads are they are too numerous, take up too much of a users data bandwidth, auto play and are often way too loud, and they were becoming plagued with viruses. ill never go back to what it waa before, they can take ad block from my cold dead hands lol

[u/Dazzling_Focus_6993 → u/TheJellyGoo]

I have forgotten about ads. It really amazes me that people still scroll webpages full of ads.

[u/Choubidouu]

So they are basically doing free advertising for firefox ?

[u/MeesKees321 → u/Choubidouu]

They have been doing that for a few years.

[u/F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt → u/MeesKees321]

And yet people refuse to switch away from chrome. Guaranteed there'll be lots of posts and general content about potential workarounds or whatever because everyone is just staying put instead of using the better browser.

[u/SurrealSage → u/F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt]

Yup, most folks seem to be willing to bitch and moan to the ends of the earth, but are completely unwilling to make any changes or introduce even the most trivial of inconveniences to work around it.

[u/shiddedandfarded69 → u/SurrealSage]

Just want to say that I love that you're still rocking a Vega 64. Hell yeah.

[u/SurrealSage → u/shiddedandfarded69]

Lol, pretty out of date flair. Don't use reddit much anymore. Currently on a 7900 XTX. Still have the Vega though, just in case!

[u/eraw17E → u/Choubidouu]

Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions per year to be their default search engine.

[u/thisisjustascreename → u/eraw17E]

It's strategic philanthropy by Google, they need a "viable" competitor to avoid the sort of anti-competitive behavior lawsuits Micro$lop constantly gets hit with.

[u/AutistcCuttlefish → u/thisisjustascreename]

This is wildly outdated information. Google got hit with an antitrust lawsuit from the DOJ a few years ago. And they lost it last year. They were declared to be a monopoly, and the Firefox deal was one of the many things used to prove Google had a monopoly on search.

The DOJ wanted Google broken up, but the judge instead ordered Google to share their data with their competitors and to cease all deals to make Google search the default. Google just appealed this ruling last month, so the deals aren't dead just yet. However if upheld then the Firefox deal is over, and 85% of Mozilla's revenue will go with it.

[u/al-mongus-bin-susar → u/AutistcCuttlefish]

Then Mozilla will just need a restructuring. Because they're sure not doing anything with that money other than paying execs

[u/DezXerneas → u/al-mongus-bin-susar]

Nah they're busy wasting money on stupid shit. Look at the number of things that they've killed recently.

All the money Mozilla gets just goes into dumb projects they're gonna kill off in a few months or to the stupid execs.

[u/seimmuc_ → u/DezXerneas]

Those stupid projects aren't meant to succeed, they were created by overpaid executives to justify their own salaries.

[u/GradeSalad → u/DezXerneas]

It's amusing how Google's money seems to contain a mind virus that causes others to do the same shit they do.

[u/QuarkyFerengi → u/eraw17E]

This is the scary part in all of it. I rely heavily on Firefox now, and all it would take for them to die is for Google to pull their support.

[u/organicapplesandwate → u/QuarkyFerengi]

There's always another browser. Non-Chromium, non-Gecko browsers include Safari, SeaMonkey (sort of Gecko, but safe from issues, it's complicated) and the upcoming Ladybird. I get it's annoying to switch browsers and we shouldn't even have to, but we're not screwed if things go south. There's a huge number of software developers that just do free open-source work and are just as motivated to avoid the corporate shitshow.

[u/reventlov → u/organicapplesandwate]

Safari isn't Chromium, but Chromium is derived from Safari's WebKit engine, so they share an architecture and a ton of code.

So Safari is not under Google's direct control, but I really worry about the overall health of the web now that we're down to 2 independent browser engine lineages, one of which (Gecko) is almost down to the "not worth supporting" bar for market share.

[u/gnarlin → u/organicapplesandwate]

That's not the real problem. Mozilla's firefox is the ONLY real alternative web browser engine. Loosing it would be really bad.

[u/XB_Demon1337 → u/eraw17E]

The problem is that Google knows if they stop doing this then they will have Firefox people using other services that overall are still really good.

[u/human-in-a-can → u/XB_Demon1337]

duckduckgo actually shows me relevant search results. Google search has gotten so insanely shitty over the years, and the fact that it's intentional is just disgusting. Sure, DDG isn't perfect, but it works great and is still improving at a fast rate.

[u/SeattleResident → u/Choubidouu]

They've been doing that for 5 years and Firefox has seen their total usage footprint drop by 40% over the same 5 years. It has 6% usage on Desktop but .6 on mobile. Edge is also pushing it out of the browser market and is taking more from Firefox than Chrome.

[u/Brickless → u/SeattleResident]

yep, but the conclusion isn't that people are fine with ads, it's that they are fine with not going online.

the power user will switch to an alternative to keep their usage the same but remove the ads. the average user will simply reduce usage until their personal annoyance decreases to acceptable levels.

this has happened before and it will happen again, because most people actually have enough stuff to do that they can just shift their time to other activities.

tv, night clubs, news, sports, cinema, movie streaming all had massive usage drops because the average person didn't complain, didn't act but simply left. that's what I have done with tv, news sites and youtube mobile.

even with v3 my personal experience is that I will first massively reduce usage before looking into alternatives because I have other stuff I want to do. last time v3 broke ads for me I stopped going online and instead played more video games and started painting.

the platforms have switched to capturing our attention not our interest so when they become irritating there is nothing holding us there

[u/human-in-a-can → u/Brickless]

I think about this when people act like streaming killed radio and cable TV. I'm convinced it was all the commercials.

[u/pdabaker → u/Brickless]

People are absolutely still going online. It's just that the wild internet where you go to random websites is mostly dead. These days people just open up one of a few fixed apps on their phone and interact with insta/tiktok etc

[u/Extension_Score_9565]

/laughs in Firefox, Ublock Origin, .HOSTS file and Adguard DNS.

[u/FireCrow1013 → u/Extension_Score_9565]

Yeah, I was going to say, maybe YOU won't be blocking ads for much longer, but I sure as hell will be.

[u/ceejay242 → u/FireCrow1013]

Exactly been using Firefox for years no way im going back to Google chrome

[u/LiliaBlossom → u/ceejay242]

I never even used Chrome. I’ve been on Firefox since 2007, with a short safari period around 2010 when I was using a macbook for a few years. Screw Chrome, Edge, etc, I don’t get why anyone even used it?

[u/BoingBoingBooty → u/LiliaBlossom]

Lol, the real ones are the ones who were on it since it was called Firebird.

Of course the real real ones are the ones who switched to Firebird from Mozilla Suite.

Of course the real real real ones are the ones who switched to Mozilla Suite from Netscape Navigator.

[u/Felinomancy → u/BoingBoingBooty]

And the real real real real ones are those who actually paid for Netscape Navigator.

[u/Rough_Bread8329 → u/Felinomancy]

The REALLY real real real real real real real ones used mofuggin Lynx when Netscape Navigator was still in diapers.

[u/space_keeper → u/FireCrow1013]

The more they squeeze, the more inventive people will get. 

[u/koshgeo → u/FireCrow1013]

Worse case, if I have to manually right-click, "Inspect", and delete the relevant frame in Firefox for annoying auto-play video ads, I will.

[u/Pretend-Surprise8621 → u/Extension_Score_9565]

firefox gang

[u/Suby06 → u/Pretend-Surprise8621]

looks like I will be switching from opera and ublock soon lol

[u/ZuriPL → u/Suby06]

you should switch right now

[u/Kenja_Time → u/Suby06]

I put it off for so long. Took 5 minutes. Everything can be ported over from Chrome in a couple of clicks

[u/Previous-Low4715 → u/Extension_Score_9565]

Laughs in Pihole

[u/Tricon916 → u/Previous-Low4715]

I don't get why everyone isn't running PiHole. Takes minutes to setup and bam, all ads, on all devices, blocked. Set it and forget it.

[u/Sarithis → u/Tricon916]

Because pihole works at the DNS level - it won't remove empty ad containers, overlays, or unwanted scripts running on webpages. And most importantly, it can't block ads served from the same domain without breaking the site, which includes YouTube, Twitch, and many other platforms.

[u/Nerdinat0r → u/Sarithis]

That’s why I use a multistage approach. PiHole AND uBlock

[u/fritzie_pup → u/Nerdinat0r]

Using both of these along with Firefox & VPN (for IP location tracking), and I haven't seen an actual ad on any site in years. It's how the internet was supposed to look.

Using a device without any of that these days is even worse than the hell of the late 90's/early 00's with pop-up ads fuggin' EVERYWHERE. Some sites to me are almost impossible to read at this point.

Once in awhile YT will push some update that breaks uBlockO, but they normally have a workaround in a couple hours. They're awesome.

[u/munta20 → u/Extension_Score_9565]

• YT sponsor block

[u/M5K64 → u/Extension_Score_9565]

Yup. I imagine some day "they" will come for Firefox too, but they're gonna have to take it kicking and screaming. 

[u/Own_Cup9970 → u/M5K64]

firefox is open source, so it's harder task to do

[u/Optimal-Extreme4655 → u/Extension_Score_9565]

Firefox Gangg

[u/MrJoshua099 → u/Extension_Score_9565]

A raspberry pi and pihole are worth the investment just to block out more ads. Even works for a bunch of phone app ads too.

[u/RavenK92 → u/Extension_Score_9565]

What's a .HOSTS file?

[u/jxnebug → u/RavenK92]

There's a file called "hosts" that lives in your system32 folder and it is basically a manual override of DNS routing plus acts like a blocklist for domains. It's commonly used with software piracy to block the domains a program will try to 'phone home' like Adobe shit.

I haven't used it for ad blocking but I'm guessing there are lists of domains you can find to add to your file and just block ads from popular services from ever showing up.

[u/RavenK92 → u/jxnebug]

Thanks for the rundown. If it's a system32 file, would it also be present in Linux?

[u/azgrel → u/RavenK92]

It should be located at /etc/

[u/Slight-Coat17 → u/RavenK92]

All OS have it. On Linux/Unix, it's under /etc.

[u/Kazen_Orilg → u/RavenK92]

yes, in Linux it lives in /etc

[u/Extension_Score_9565 → u/RavenK92]

It is a file that redirects any incoming traffic wherever you like and it is system-wide.

Example: https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

[u/Nothos927 → u/RavenK92]

There’s a file on your computer called the hosts file. It basically defines hostnames to IP addresses. It’s the file where the localhost address is defined and gets prioritised over the public records.

That prioritising means you can block a lot of domains that serve ads from being loaded on a specific machine. A common example is testing a website moving to a new server and thus IP or even blocking any software from contacting activation.adobe.com, if you ever had a need for that.

[u/MeesKees321 → u/RavenK92]

It is the file that tells your computer which domain names have what ip address.

So if you put into your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 www.google.com

You cannot visit www.google.com anymore, it points to your own computer

[u/corvettee01]

Anyone who cares stopped using Chrome ages ago.

[u/KrazyCrayon → u/corvettee01]

I moved over to Firefox about a year ago, after using it for 10 plus years because Google kept making it harder and harder to get ublock working. Haven't looked back. Fuck google.

[u/Geeseareawesome → u/KrazyCrayon]

And Firefox being much more transparent, user friendly, and not throttling ram usage

[u/Cloud_N0ne → u/Geeseareawesome]

Just wish they’d stop adding widgets and shit to the new tab page. I keep removing stuff and they keep adding more.

But I adore the picture-in-picture feature for videos

[u/Geeseareawesome → u/Cloud_N0ne]

The flexibility on extensions is nice as well. Dark mode and a built-in vpn

[u/Defendo99 → u/Cloud_N0ne]

Picture-in-picture has changed my life tbh

[u/Moony_playzz → u/Cloud_N0ne]

Ngl I like the widgets, the clocks are nice when you've got friends around the world

[u/FrancyStyle → u/Moony_playzz]

Wait how do you add clocks??

[u/JAWinks → u/Geeseareawesome]

I’m a Firefox power user but it seems to be by far my slowest browser

[u/thedeuce75 → u/KrazyCrayon]

Switched to Firefox and Kagi for search, no regrets.

[u/null_not → u/corvettee01]

A browser that uses as much ram as Chrome does is not a browser I want on my machine.

[u/Live-Wrap-4592 → u/corvettee01]

The first advert I saw on chrome was for opera. Well played, both of you

[u/ModernManuh_]

All ad blockers users know how to make ad blockers work, literally nothing changes (except more people will use Firefox)

[u/TheMundar → u/ModernManuh_]

I've made a lot of friends by installing adblockers and I promise you many of their technology tree skills stopped at using the browser somewhat effectively.

[u/Bisaux → u/TheMundar]

Honestly kind of sad. I'm a genZ who recognises the value in being able to use a computer effectively. But so many of my age peers are (and I hate using this term) such fucking normies when it comes to computer use. They use LLM's for everything, blindly trust the AI overview for their sole answers, don't install adblockers on anything, get blindly sucked into the doomscrolling spiral that these companies want you in, keep all the bloatware on W11, etc etc.

Like half of these people don't know what a countif function does in excel, and they're university undergrads.

[u/Synaps4]

Is it time for our monthly "don't use chrome" reminder again? How time flies.

[u/Express_Ad5083 → u/Synaps4]

"Hell yeah, its my time to karma farm"

[u/SKtigercub88]

Good ol Firefox will always be king

[u/Talking-Nonsense-978 → u/SKtigercub88]

I went back the moment Google even hinted about going after adblocking. Should've never left.

And on my work computer where I can't install Firefox, I just rather use Edge than Chrome.

[u/red286 → u/Talking-Nonsense-978]

I switched the first time they blocked uBlock origin. It wasn't even about the ads, I use uBlock for work-related purposes because a lot of the websites I need to use for work have very annoying CSS issues, and uBlock is great for blocking bad CSS.

So when I fired up Chrome one morning to find that uBlock Origin had been permanently disabled, I switched to Firefox immediately.

[u/siccoblue → u/red286]

Same, but it was about the ads

Anyone who was around for the early Internet and remembers popups probably has a fucking vendetta against ads at this point. I know even chrome is good about blocking those types of ads these days but ads in general a virus infested nuisance.

I also understand that this is largely focused on YouTube. But if anti ad blocking is a major goal of you platform it has zero place on my computer. End of story.

[u/Bisaux → u/SKtigercub88]

If corpo Mozilla ever sells out, I think the devs will just pull another Mozilla and make a new free browser lol.

[u/testfire10]

Hopefully they vibe code the updates so we can find new ways in with the buggy codebase

[u/Deegan000]

Weird its almost like you shouldn't be using chrome. Or Edge if people really actually use it.

[u/XxDuelNightxX → u/Deegan000]

Funny enough, Edge has its own built in ad-blocker that works fairly well.

[u/MJMPmik → u/XxDuelNightxX]

Does it work with youtube?

[u/homariseno → u/MJMPmik]

it works on my phone too - i never see ads on YouTube. The YouTube app is ad-ridden hellscape though

[u/fixurstuffr → u/homariseno]

Firefox on Droid phones can use extensions, this allows the use of uBlock Origin.

[u/MindlessCoook → u/Deegan000]

Na, Edge is good. Been way better than Chrome for a while now.

[u/Sihayaya → u/MindlessCoook]

edge is actually kind of a hidden gem... for now.

[u/Blake-81 → u/Sihayaya]

Edge has really redeemed itself for all the stupidity of its predecessors.

[u/err404 → u/MindlessCoook]

Edge is better than Chrome, but there are even better chromium browsers. I’m running Brave myself. 

[u/CyanSlinky → u/MindlessCoook]

Edge has the best vertical tabs hands down. I do hate that they keep switching my default search engine to bing without any notification though...

[u/Spider-Thwip → u/MindlessCoook]

My people!

I hated edge for so long but its actually great now.

Its my favourite desktop browser.

I really hope samsung bring their browser to linux.

[u/SwiftTayTay → u/Deegan000]

i've been using edge ever since it switched to chromium, it's just a better version of chrome. i'm going to keep using it until ublock actually stops working.

[u/Snaki009 → u/Deegan000]

Why shouldn't they, best browser. Also this post is irrelevant for edge really it's got built in blocker

[u/Vader646464]

https://giphy.com/gifs/dvBgr7pA6FTJOMOALY

[u/kael13 → u/Vader646464]

Cold fox?

[u/itsjehmun]

Awfully 'Brave' of them.

[u/Comfortable-Side1308 → u/itsjehmun]

My default browser 

[u/itsjehmun → u/Comfortable-Side1308]

Brave gets flack on this sub sometimes, but I gotta say it's the FIRST thing I do now on fresh installs both Linux and W11.

[u/IMREADY2D1E → u/itsjehmun]

brave and fire fox are the goat fr

[u/odbj → u/itsjehmun]

They must be feeling so much 'Zen' that they feel compelled to 'Floorp'

[u/TheTresStateArea]

These companies gotta find a different way to make money. People don't want to be advertised to every waking second of life.

[u/523a]

It's crazy how greedy these companies are. They made $260 billion in 2024 from advertising alone.

$700+ million per day just from ads and they want more.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-revenue-of-google/

[u/dbtowo]

Ublock origin lite is working well for me. I don’t mess or config ublock origin so I barely could tell a difference.

UBOL is compatible with mv3

Some times YouTube and Reddit promotes pop up and that It.

[u/ItsD3adly → u/dbtowo]

the way people were talking about ublock origin -> ublock lite i thought it was over. i haven't noticed a difference and it still blocks youtube ads which i was most worried about.

[u/Teyanis → u/ItsD3adly]

Yeah you get a couple days of trouble every so often but its been months for me since I've even had one of those. UBOL is perfectly adequate for 95% of people.

[u/steelbeamsdankmemes → u/dbtowo]

Yup same, will use chrome until I see an ad on YouTube, which hasn't happened yet.

[u/Eyedroid → u/dbtowo]

THANK YOU. I was looking for someone who's not a complete idiot and knows the difference. More power to you.

[u/Puredragons69 → u/dbtowo]

So the title is misleading as usual. I wish these posts could get banned

[u/Extension_Score_9565 → u/dbtowo]

The only real issue is that you can't chose to block a specific part of a page (like Reddit Games) with Lite.

[u/wayward_wanderer → u/Extension_Score_9565]

You can still create custom filters to block custom elements on a page. The process is practically the same as before. They just changed the icon. Instead of clicking the eye dropper icon you click the crossed out eye icon with the label "create custom filter". The rest of the process is the same.

[u/lil_fishy_fish → u/Extension_Score_9565]

That is so much out of scope for what an average person wants out of an ad blocker.

[u/Vegetable_Safety → u/lil_fishy_fish]

I will painstakingly build filters if a sufficient one does not exist for a particular website, but yes

[u/mrturret]

https://giphy.com/gifs/aYrtl1AhKDhjq

[u/LickSomeToad]

Unlock origin Lite uses manifest V3 and blocks all the same ads. Not sure why no one brings this up

[u/Dantocks]

How to get rid of my own userbase?

[u/ThisDudeEmpty]

YouTube trying to get around adblock is one thing, there's somewhat of an argument to be had that ads help creators.

This is just delusional. Like actually delusional. The internet isn't just unusable without adblock, it's GENUINELY unsafe.

I'm never using chrome again.

[u/BeefistPrime]

Use Firefox or Brave. There's no reason to use Chrome.

[u/Flandardly → u/BeefistPrime]

Been using brave for the last 7 years. No ad block extension needed it just works. Not sure why chrome is even talked about anymore.

[u/whiskeynrye]

Google can't stop my network level pi-hole

[u/Old_Manufacturer589 → u/whiskeynrye]

Uh... yes they can. DNS adblocking can't block ads being served from the first party domain. It also can't block scripts. Pi-Hole or any form of DNS adblocking is nice to have, but it's in no way as good as an extension.

[u/Asleeper135 → u/whiskeynrye]

Not really true. If ads come from a domain not specific to ads or they use DNS over HTTPS that largely gets around a pi-hole.

[u/Buji19]

Every day im even more thankful to be using Zen browser (firefox fork) lol

Between this and the 4gb ai they sneaked on people who updated chrome without saying shit im not touching chrome nor any chromium browser lmao

Sorry vivaldi :/

[u/OrionOnyx]

Switched to Firefox on a whim a few years ago just to try something new. Haven't looked back since

[u/StrangeCharmVote]

For the time being i've switched to Adnauseum.

A uBlock Origin fork that doesn't just block the ads, it clicks on all of them.

Which is worse for the advertisers, because that means they need to pay out for all the ad views, even though you've watched/viewed nothing, and fucks their metrics because if you just click on every advertisement it says nothing about your preferences.

[u/Maximum-Ear5677]

Insert Jeremy Clarkson "Oh no, anyway" meme

[u/Snagmesomeweaves → u/Maximum-Ear5677]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB

[u/ScientistLong8121]

Just install Firefox... I feel bad for leaving Firefox all those years ago...

[u/AnythingOk5]

V3 Manifest adblockers exist and work without problems.

[u/GaiusBertus]

How about Vivaldi? It has got a pretty good adblocker build in.

[u/Megatto95]

Firefox + Ublock gang

[u/IngwiePhoenix]

Lies.

You will just uninstall Chrome. Done.

[u/JohnnyOnTheSpot104]

Firefox much better anyway

[u/Complex_Dot_4754]

Couldn't care less. They made it difficult, switched Browser... Google can suck my culo.

[u/BattleGrown]

I don't get it. I switched to uBlock Origin Lite when the original extension got removed, and I didn't notice any difference. Is Lite getting removed too?

[u/mrballs6942069]

SWITCH TO FIREFOX FFS WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL PUTTING UP WITH THIS SHIT

[u/KimJungUnCool]

The only people still using chrome are the ones who werent using ad block to begin with

[u/Mark_Knight]

who gives a fuck anymore. anyone that actually cares about a highly functional adblocker moved to firefox once manifest v3 became a thing

[u/MaliDjogani_]

So I guess it doesn’t affect Brave browser lol?

[u/EyeQue62]

I haven't bothered even installing Chrome on my new laptop. I have Firefox set up as I like it and it's zippy as and has the few addons I wanted working great, including uBlock of course.

[u/Guilty_Suggestion_27]

I've already started to swap from chrome to Zen

[u/Donleon57]

Guys you know you don't need to use chrome based browsers ?

also you can block ads otherwhise if you really wanna keep chrome. (e.g. Adguard DNS or a Pi-Hole)

[u/OneExact8851]

You will never stop me. There is always a workaround.

[u/maevian]

Just install Firefox