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PSA: Even among tech minded folks, a surprising number of people are still using adblock which is widely known to use sponsored whitelists to allow companies to

PSA: Even among tech minded folks, a surprising number of people are still using adblock which is widely known to use sponsored whitelists to allow companies to bypass the filters. The gold standard which works as an extension in both chrome and Firefox is uBlock Origin, annoyingly not to be confused with uBlock. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpal... Also be aware that Google continues to add restrictions to extension permissions such that uBlock Origin may not be as effective as it once was.

dylan604 2y ago
> Also be aware that Google continues to add restrictions to extension permissions such that uBlock Origin may not be as effective as it once was. That's fine. I don't use a Google made browser, so this would not affect me at all. It would also be very easy for this to not affect you too if you just had the courage to stop being a sheeple
- vunderba 2y ago
  I'm not sure who this comment is directed at and I can't speak for everyone but I do think some people have to use Chrome as a requirement from their jobs - such as UI/UX testing for frontend development. So for them, it's better than nothing.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    you can use what ever browser for UI/UX testing purposes, but it doesn't have to be your daily driver.
simple10 2y ago
Is the warning on uBlock Origin Chrome extension page due to it not using the manifest v3? Anybody know if uBlock is still the best option for Chrome?
- vunderba 2y ago
  Marginally related, I've heard that Brave (which is a chromium fork) is going to maintain support for V2 so uBlock Origin will continue to work on it, but I don't use it personally so take that with a grain of salt.
  - simple10 2y ago
    Thanks. Many friends of mine use and recommend brave.
rty32 2y ago
Not even that. Most of my software engineer colleagues do not use ad blockers at all. They are definitely aware of them, but they don't use them, and they don't bother to use them. Which is surprising. You would expect that the people who have the ability to write perfect selector rules to block ads and understand how all of this works would be the first to use them. But no.
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  I've seen this too, and we see it right here on HN every time this discussion comes up. You can even see it on this discussion just above: there's a bunch of people here who just don't want to use them because they want to "support content creators" or whatever. There's even some people here who will tell you you're a bad person for blocking ads. I find it baffling too.

dylan604 2y ago

> Also be aware that Google continues to add restrictions to extension permissions such that uBlock Origin may not be as effective as it once was. That's fine. I don't use a Google made browser, so this would not affect me at all. It would also be very easy for this to not affect you too if you just had the courage to stop being a sheeple

vunderba 2y ago
I'm not sure who this comment is directed at and I can't speak for everyone but I do think some people have to use Chrome as a requirement from their jobs - such as UI/UX testing for frontend development. So for them, it's better than nothing.
- dylan604 2y ago
  you can use what ever browser for UI/UX testing purposes, but it doesn't have to be your daily driver.

simple10 2y ago

Is the warning on uBlock Origin Chrome extension page due to it not using the manifest v3? Anybody know if uBlock is still the best option for Chrome?

vunderba 2y ago
Marginally related, I've heard that Brave (which is a chromium fork) is going to maintain support for V2 so uBlock Origin will continue to work on it, but I don't use it personally so take that with a grain of salt.
- simple10 2y ago
  Thanks. Many friends of mine use and recommend brave.

rty32 2y ago

Not even that. Most of my software engineer colleagues do not use ad blockers at all. They are definitely aware of them, but they don't use them, and they don't bother to use them. Which is surprising. You would expect that the people who have the ability to write perfect selector rules to block ads and understand how all of this works would be the first to use them. But no.

shiroiushi 2y ago
I've seen this too, and we see it right here on HN every time this discussion comes up. You can even see it on this discussion just above: there's a bunch of people here who just don't want to use them because they want to "support content creators" or whatever. There's even some people here who will tell you you're a bad person for blocking ads. I find it baffling too.