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Altoid

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Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Hello:

From today's edition of The Register:

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions
Chrome ad blocker stopped working? Time to look elsewhere

Best,

A.

swanson

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Registered: 2020-04-22

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Firefox and uBlock Origin works very well. Recommend it.

SpongeBOB

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I would recommend librewolf.net

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golinux

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Death by 1,000 cuts . . .

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ruenoak

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Removed from Edge as well apparently.
To my surprise uBlock Origin is available for my beloved SeaMonkey!

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delgado

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Chrome is may things** but not a browser.
It may be used for something sweet like this web site, but not in the wild, where it turns into an advertising delivery platform.

**audio/video encoder/decoder, debugger, environment for online games, part of a web-shop, ... and what not.

einpoklum

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Firefox and uBlock Origin works very well. Recommend it.

Firefox _cannot_ be recommended, I'm afraid. They have been collecting a lot of telemetry for a while; their internal governance is terrible and very oppressive; and now - they've indicated the intent to sell your data, or mine it and sell, or something along those lines - and are planning to have users give them explicit permission to do this; see this ArsTechnica coverage.

There is a patch re-enabling manifest-v3 support (it's quite trivial, i.e. the restriction is for socio-political reasons, not any technical necessity); it can also be applied on its own, but perhaps we (or Debian) should look into ungoogled chromium - which removes all of the call-home's and includes this patch and other privacy-oriented ones. I wish thaty could be a Devuan (or Debian) package.

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pcalvert

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

There is also uBlock Origin Lite which does work in Edge and the newer versions of Chrome/Chromium.

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Ron

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

uBlock Origin still works for me in Chromium. Will it stop working at some point?

Nicholas Flamy

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Brave Browser is extending manifest V2 support for a little while and they also have a built-in adblocker, which is probably based on every other adblocker: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

mirrortokyo

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I am currently holding chromium / chromium-common / chromium-sandbox at version 134.0.6998.117-1 to keep uBlock Origin working.

stopAI

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I am currently holding chromium / chromium-common / chromium-sandbox at version 134.0.6998.117-1 to keep uBlock Origin working.

Hello.

In my subjective opinion, this is a very bad solution. For security reasons. The current version of chromium is 136.0.7103.92....

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UnixMan1230

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

There's always KDE Falkon...they have a plugin that lets you use your own lists. took me a while to get right, and sadly I can't attach mine here, but it does work once configured. a pain to keep up with, though.

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lynch9

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Can't recommend Palemoon enough. It sucks a bit less than everything else, but it really depends on what you're looking for in a web browser

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EDX-0

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

brave, it just works, brave's own adblock is inspired on uBlockOrigin if i remember correctly to the point you should be able to use the same filters in brave brave://settings/shields/filters enable developer mode and you can enter your own custom filters and scriptlets

as for firefox... do not use firefox, use librewolf or try to build gnu icecat, unfortunately some years ago debian dropped the iceweasel project when firefox relaxed their trademark policies, a new fork of firefox really needs to come up but that is a different can of worms...

UnixMan1230

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

@EDX-0 This might be of interest to you:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1099130

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zapper

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

@lynch9

I also say the same.

As for whether librewolf is better than chrome, the answer should be a yes.

Firefox and chrome based web browsers aren't great.

ungoogled chromium could be considered an exception though.

Still, first place for me is palemoon
second place, librewolf or similar
third place ungoogled chromium or similar
everything else = bottom

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lynch9

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

@zapper

Fully agree. Librewolf seems to be just firefox with some tweaked settings and uBlock origin tho.

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golinux

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I'm not there yet - still on Chimaera - but would like to know if it Is it possible to run Librewolf and firefox at the same time? I sort of remember trying it once and it wasn't possible . . . Thanks.

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delgado

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I'm not having any problems running firefox and librewolf at the same time.

It's currently librewolf.appimage and firefox-esr from the excalibur repo. The appimage version should work on any devuan. I don't use librewolf from its debian repo for historical reasons (no sound on pure alsa).

golinux

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Much appreciated delgado. When I'm in the mood, I'll fiddle with it in preparation for the day I divorce firefox! I've never used an app image but maybe it's time . . . need to investigate all escape routes to flee the madness . . .

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Install the deb. This is done with the three normal steps:

1. Use wget or curl
   to download their https://repo.librewolf.net/keyring.gpg
   to be your file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/repo.librewolf.net.gpg

2. Add the line deb http://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main
   to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

3. Then run apt-get update
   and apt-get install librewolf

(though that might not be pointy-ckicky enough to suit everyone)

Note: All steps are to be done as root.

The package installs a librewolf.desktop file that typically makes up an entry in the "Applications" graphical menu system, in addition to installing a librewolf binary that typically is available for execution as commandline command.

greenjeans

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

@golinux, while snaps and flatpaks are just crap, I have had some success using Appimages, they work pretty well for us "pointy-clicky" folk.

Palemoon is a good browser, but their terms of redistribution are why they aren't in anybody's repo I think.

Brave works pretty well all by itself as a daily browser, it's own adblocker seems to work good enough.

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ralph.ronnquist

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Commodification of software takes many forms and "appimages" is one of them.
Who cares?

brocashelm

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

@greenjeans:

Good call on the AppImages. They can be a simple and efficient way to access software rarely packaged onto your distro without the need for building or installing from third-party repositories. Besides, you could use the LibreWolf AppImage for the time being to get a feel for the browser -- try it before you actually do install it from their Debian repository. Just remember to set it as executable (or chmod +x it), or it won't launch.

Might I also recommend, while we're on the subject of AppImages and modern browsers, to have a look at the FreeTube privacy client for watching YouTube videos ad-free? It's very user-friendly, "modern", and uses their own servers for their API (Invidious relies on Google's servers). There are DEB files available, but you could also try their AppImage, Flatpak, and other provided packaged binaries for GNU/Linux.