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Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?
Noticed since a couple of days ago that my Gmail and Google Workspace emails weren't loading on Chrome while they continue to work on Firefox.
And then I realised today that when I turn off uBlock origin on Chrome, then my emails start loading again on Gmail.
Is this happening to others? Is Google actively trying to kill all adblockers in Chrome this way?
- leros 5y agoI've had a few sites I normally use break today and start working after I turn off uBlock.
- sahin 5y agoMy gmail is acting weird as well
- rtsil 5y agoWorking fine on Chrome 98.0.4758.102.
- SlimShady747 5y agoAffirmative
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- pabs3 5y agoMight be a good idea to switch to an IMAP client instead?
- cube00 5y ago...and enjoy Google's constant nagging that "you're using an insecure application password"
- trissylegs 5y agoThunderbird supports Gmail oauth.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoWhat's a decent IMAP client that supports labels properly?
- tadfisher 5y agoI use notmuch[1] with lieer[2]. Notmuch maintains a tags database with full-text search indexing for a set of maildirs, and Lieer uses the GMail API to synchronize messages with a maildir and labels with notmuch tags. There are lots of notmuch frontends available, but I use the built-in Emacs frontend. [1]: https://notmuchmail.org/ https://notmuchmail.org/ [2]: https://github.com/gauteh/lieer https://github.com/gauteh/lieer
- hammyhavoc 5y agoYou've made my day! Thank you!
- curt15 5y agoGeary[1] is one option for Linux users. It stores all messages in a giant sqlite database and models labels by "tags". It's still defintely wip though. I do recall reading somewhere that these days Thunderbird does deduplicate messages with multiple labels, but I haven't tested whether it is indeed true. [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues
- avazhi 5y agoYes
- muzika 5y agoSame here.
- drimphgol 5y agoSeems like a ublock origin bug. Proposed solution here: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/t2n77i/gmail_suddenly_does_not_display_mail_content/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/t2n77i/gmail_...
- oefrha 5y agoIt's an EasyPrivacy bug? That list is developed with ridiculously cavalier attitude. A few months ago they blocked workers.dev wholesale[1], that is, the entirety of Cloudflare Workers, for some sort of third party request on torrentfreak.com. I was flooded with user reports that day, and several days afterwards thanks to list caching. I was shocked that people who seemingly have no idea of public suffixes are tasked with blocking domains. [1] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/e4b0216bd18bacf5ad4acbd6de77906fc497446d https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/e4b0216bd18bacf5...
- exikyut 5y agoHmm. I guess this is the rub of https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ ("Dependency"): narratives along the lines of "half the world's infrastructure depends on this random tiny support column maintained by one specific super-smart individual in their spare time (give them more money)" can make for fun junk food to feed our inferiority complexes, but that kind of sentiment rings of a distinct positivity and optimism when compared to how that same infrastructure can wind up on life support by (perhaps unwitting) incompetents who find themselves with noone to give account to because of the entrenched position they've wound up in in the woodwork. I guess the moral of the story to me (TIL) is that there really is no limit to the places that Hanlon's razor (do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity) can pop up in the most cognitively-dissonant ways :v
- soraminazuki 5y agoIt's called a mistake. I see nothing "ridiculously cavalier" about it.
- oefrha 5y ago
- johndfsgdgdfg 5y agoThis is an wake-up call for everyone to migrate to other email service providers. Google only cares about invading our privacy, showing ads and making money. Thre's no reason to use products from a company like that.
- globalproctd 5y agoYeah, how dare those pesky businesses exist and try to make money.
- clamprecht 5y agoIf there's fee I can pay to allow uBlock origin to keep working on Chrome, send me a link.
- invalidname 5y agoThose other services aren't free so this isn't anti-business... The opposite. With Google we're the product and it doesn't serve us as customers.
- m-p-3 5y agoIt would be nice to have an add-on in Google One to turn off the ads for a monthly price.
- tadfisher 5y agoI believe Workspace is tracking-free? At least their privacy policy says they do not use Workspace data for advertising.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoI wish Gmail's web app was FOSS. Only use it as an interface for External Accounts.
- vanilla_nut 5y agoAlso a wake-up call to migrate to other internet browsers. Don't give Google the monopoly market share it needs to push the web whatever direction it wants; competition is healthy. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- modriano 5y agoYeah, I also observed it on Firefox. I was able to view emails by turning off only the "disable cosmetic filtering" filter.
- m4rc3lv 5y agoYes! Exactly this. My wife uses a Chrome book.
- ck2 5y agoIt's the filter lists you are subscribed to. Sometimes they get a bad rule in them and then they don't fix it for a day or two, or you have to purge the rule caches and reload from source.
- ramphastidae 5y agoHappened to me as well.
- travoc 5y agoI switched to Protonmail and Google immediately stopped reading my e-commerce receipts to surreptitiously influence my purchasing habits.
- trident5000 5y agoWhy is anyone using Chrome would be my first question.
- recursive 5y agoIt's a web browser.
- smegsicle 5y ago/?ui=html
- qchris 5y agoIt's not just on Chrome--I ran into this issue on Firefox 96.0 as well today, and had to got to Setting -> "Purge My Cache" -> "Update Now" to get back to normal.
- spacehome 5y agoNo, because I broke up with Alphabet years ago.
- danychok 5y agoI "fixed" gmail not showing body of emails while ublock is installed by toggling off the "cosmetic filtering". Oddly on my other computer I didn't have to do this.
- terrycody 5y agoIts working well on Firefox though.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- davidstoker 5y agoSee this issue for solution: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/11906#issuecomment-1053795946 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/11906#issueco...
- kornhole 5y agoI suggest you practice browser isolation and use chrome only for Google logged in services without ublock. Use other private browsers for other stuff with ublock (Librewolf or brave).
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoGood advice. What I usually do is also create a few chrome profiles. One for Discord, one for Gmail, one for Shopping, etc. Firefox is also great for this kind of thing with custom container tabs.
- mech422 5y agoI use full on custom profiles for stuff like banking, shopping, etc... and containers within the profiles to separate amazon from walmart, etc. edit: I probably should have mentioned, this is on Firefox
- fsflover 5y agoIf you want a more robust isolation, consider using Qubes OS with hardware-virtualized VMs.
- dbuder 5y agoIn a vm so you don't have that spyware scanning your computer
- jimbob45 5y agoToggle off/toggle on uBO appeared to solve the issue for me.
- IceWreck 5y agoUpdate your uBO filters.
- qwertox 5y agoKeep in mind that you can always create a second browser profile just for your email. This profile then doesn't require an ad blocker.
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- ilyaasraja 5y agoSorry Dia costumer i dont help you
- mootzville 5y agoUse Brave, it's Chrome without the cruft, and you probably won't need ublock anymore as it has built-in ad blocking.
- seanw444 5y agoI'm on the latest Firefox build, and I just checked, and I'm not experiencing this.
- keithnz 5y agoWorking fine with Edge.