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Those looking for adblocking should not use Chrome at all. If Chrome is really needed, it should be in its own container without any personal data. Adblocking
by ploum 3y ago
Those looking for adblocking should not use Chrome at all. If Chrome is really needed, it should be in its own container without any personal data.
Adblocking in chrome is like smoking cigarettes with filters because "it’s better for my health".
No, it’s not.
For people knowledgeable enough to read HN, there’s no excuse to still use Chrome as a daily driver.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThe customized forks are lightyears better than vanilla Chrome. Still, you have a point, and this feature in particular is quite telling: > internal firewall to block all unauthorised calls made from the browser patch (issue 147)
- stathibus 3y agoAds pay for the internet.
- stonogo 3y agoSomeone should inform my ISP.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoAds pay for the other end of the web, the part most folks are looking for, yet dont want to micro-pay every site they land on.
- e2le 3y agoMy CPU is not free real estate for any site to abuse as they see fit.
- stathibus 3y agoNothing to do with ads but thanks for playing
- brucethemoose2 3y ago99% of what goes through my browser is either SEO trash, social media attention baiting, a straight up scam, paywalled, or something ethically questionable from Big Tech. AP News served me malware in an ad. I whitelist good reporting and cool/niche sites, but things worth whitelisting are increasingly rare. Whatever discomfort I felt using an adblocker before is long gone.
- hightrix 3y agoAdvertisers poisoned the well. All ads must be blocked.
- hot_gril 3y agoThe Chrome users don't care so much about being tracked. They just don't want to see ads.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThe dilemma for me is that Firefox is extremely slow on Android. Doubly so with adblocking and dark mode extensions. I don't want the tracking, and I am certainly not going to install vanilla Chrome, but the performance deficit is a big compromise.
- hot_gril 3y agoIf you're worried about tracking, isn't Google's OS already a non-starter?
- brucethemoose2 3y agoLineageOS and derivatives are much more reasonable. Again, its a compromise, and I dont trust it with everything.
- the_third_wave 3y agoNot if you do not include the nosy bits. Use an AOSP-derived distribution like LineageOS, do not add 'Gapps' (Google Apps), use free software 'apps' from F-Droid or something similar (including Fennec, a Firefox build minus telemetry/Pocket/...) and you're good to go. LineageOS itself has its derivatives like GrapheneOS which claim to take the idea of a leak-proof mobile OS further but since that only runs on a limited number of devices none of which I have around here I have not tested this yet.
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- paulryanrogers 3y agoFirefox is slow at what?
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- gkmcd 3y agoFirefox on Android's URL bar still, in 2023, does not understand IPv6 addresses. So, unfortunately, there are still reasons to use Chrome. I use the Bromite f-droid repo but it hasn't had a new build since 2022. I'd like to see this project take off!