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    7 days ago

    One of my co-workers switched to UBlock Lite instead of UBlock Origin and now the ads are back.

    Now he’s working on switching to a non-Google browser.

    Good job, Google. You have killed Google for yet another former customer.

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      7 days ago

      Chrome users are not customers, they’re the product.

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      You are not Google’s customer. You’re the product they sell to their customers.

      Edit: Made this comment before refreshing the post to see the person above me. What they said.

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      I 'm forced to use Chrome on my work laptop and it is the worst browser (even before the disabling of Manifest V2), but for security I can’t access many systems with even another chromium based browser . Funnily IT forces an extension on us and it isn’t compatible with Manifest V3.

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    7 days ago

    I don’t have any chrome extensions because I don’t use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.

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    The sad thing is that people will see this and still try to find a way to keep using chrome instead of just moving to a browser that actually respects them.

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    This is the list, for those who don’t want to read it. I don’t see Adguard Adblocker on there, surprisingly or SponsorBlock. Besides UBlock Origin, which is a staple extension of mine for all browsers and we’ve long knew about Google’s approach to that. I haven’t seen a lot of what I use/used on here. I don’t even know most of these.

    360 Ads Blocker
    Adblock Fast
    Awesome Bookmarks Button
    Block Ads
    Bookmark All
    Bookmark It
    Bookmark Lock
    Bookmark Manager Speed Dial
    Bookmark My Tabs
    Comodo Ad Blocker
    Comodo Online Security Pro
    Content Blocker
    Delicious Bookmark Bar Sync
    Domain Blocker
    Ethical AdBlock -- Ad Blocker
    Fast Bookmark
    Ghostery Private Search for Chrome
    Google Ad Blocker
    Google Privacy Shade
    Hover Zoom+
    Little Bookmark Box
    Location Guard
    MalwareAI Browser Security
    Pinboard Bookmark Bar Sync
    Popup Fixer
    Privacy Cleaner
    Privacy Extension
    Private Bookmarker
    Private Bookmarks
    Simple Site Blocker
    Touch VPN
    Trump Blocker
    TunnelBear Blocker
    Website Blocker
    Wikipedia Popup
    YouTube Anywhere Remote
    
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      I don’t know if it’s related, but an extension we use at work called Redirector was just disabled a few weeks ago for being “unsupported.” It’s the only reason I even used Chrome, so I guess I can go back to Safari. At home I only use Firefox.

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        If you’re talking about the extension that looks like an R with a green arrow, the author passed away a couple years ago. https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector/issues/329

        The repo has a new maintainer but there’s been no new releases since the maintainer doesn’t have access to the extension release pages. No surprise that a MV3 version hasn’t been worked on.

        It still works on Firefox, though.

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          Hey, thanks! I don’t know if I can use Firefox at work. I’ll have to see. Could be a good time to push Firefox there.

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        That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long time. I thought it died due to it being a privacy nightmare or something. There was some controversy at least.

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        Hasn’t it been dead for years? You can probably get the same functionality with other apps, depending on what you use it for.

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    One of the extensions blocked is called “Trump blocker” - looks like they are getting into arse kissing too

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      It’s not blocked because of the “Trump” bit though, right? It’s because it’s not a manifest V3 extension

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    Yeah I only run chrome for Microsoft teams which I unfortunately still have to use.

    The other day I saw a list of like 20 plugins, about 90% of what I have installed, banned. Not that I ever want chrome back but WTF?

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    Yeah they essentially killed about half the extensions I use. I have to use the browser for work.

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    I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?

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    I’m just worried about how zdnet presumes to know what I think.

    Google kills things, that’s what they do. They can get fucked.