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They also have the "extensions that can do real ad blocking" angle.
by perlgeek 10mo ago
They also have the "extensions that can do real ad blocking" angle.
- bamboozled 10mo agoHave you tried Brave?
- EbNar 10mo agoBeen running it since 2021. The adblocker is simply great. A d keeps getting better.
- EbNar 10mo agoand*
- Larrikin 10mo agoIt's good enough when some terrible lazy web designer only tested on Chrome. It does nothing to protect against the future when Google decides they are sick of people trying to get around their Ad Block ban and change the license because no one has any real alternatives anymore. Also blocking is not as good as intentionally poisoning with something like Ad Nauseum
- coffeebeqn 10mo agoWhat’s the current licensing mode? Can they fork their own version at that point in time and develop it open source ?
- cpeterso 10mo agoChromium uses the BSD license. Google could take Chromium closed source tomorrow without needing to change the license.
- pseudalopex 10mo agoNo Chromium fork developer not called Microsoft have the resources to maintain a web browser engine. But focus on the license overlooks a more important threat. Google made Web Environment Integrity so services could require approved devices, operating systems, and browsers. Resistance led Google to remove it from desktop for now. But they kept something like it in Android. And they will try again.
- lurk2 10mo agoA few years ago. Crashed constantly and didn’t support tagging bookmarks.
- bamboozled 10mo agoNever crashed once for me.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoBrave is adware.
- mikkupikku 10mo agoOnly if you opt-in to that misfeature, last I checked. It's opt-in, not opt-out.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoI don't know, Brave says it's every third new tab. https://brave.com/brave-ads/browser/ https://brave.com/brave-ads/browser/
- lkbm 10mo agoLooks like I'm getting a ProtonMail ad every few new tabs. I never noticed because I've never looked at the new tab page. Doesn't noticeably slow it down to have the ad there, luckily.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoSo, to reiterate: Brave is adware.
- cpburns2009 10mo agoThe new tab ads can be disabled with 2 clicks.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoI love how quickly the goalpost moves from "No ads" to "Only opt in ads" to "Ads can be disabled with two clicks." Quit coping and just admit it, Brave is adware. If you like it, that's cool, totally your choice. It's fast, performant adware. But it's adware all the same.
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- aleph4 10mo agoYes, although they can't go all in on that because it doesn't help monetization...
- WawaFin 10mo agoI've been using Chrome with uBlock Origin Lite and not even once I found a case when this version of uBlock was behaving differently (as less efficient) than the "full" uBlock Origin Maybe I'm just lucky, but even this argument is quite ... meh
- 0x3f 10mo agoDoes it not still suck at blocking YouTube video ads? As in, you get a delay before videos start playing.
- whywhywhywhy 10mo agoThat's not sucking at blocking thats YouTube intentionally adding a delay to make it seem like their experience is degraded when it isn't. If you turn the slider up to full it only happens very rarely. I'm sure this will all change eventually though and YouTube has a loophole planned so ad blocking on manifest 2.0 is impossible.
- 0x3f 10mo agoI'm not really sure of the actual mechanism, but on Firefox with a fully updated block list the delay doesn't seem to happen for me. Whereas I could never quite get rid of it on Chrome. This was a while ago, though, when they first introduced it.
- embedding-shape 10mo agoI use uBlock Origin with Firefox on Linux, and it seems like that delay happens maybe on 30% of the YouTube videos for me, with no rhyme or reason to which ones. And reloading the same video multiple times show consistent behavior if it loads fast/slow, not sure what's going on.
- wilkystyle 10mo agoI don't even have this issue with uBlock Origin Lite on mobile Safari. I'm fully browser-based on mobile for YouTube these days. No ads, no delay.
- freedomben 10mo agoIndeed, manifest v2 support alone is a killer feature that will keep me on FF as long as they support it. It definitely helps that it's also a great (though imperfect) browser.
- netdevphoenix 10mo agoThe wider point here is that you can only use FF as long as Mozilla can fund it and Mozilla can only fund it as long as Google funds them. At some point, it will be cheaper for Google to pay monopoly fines than funding Mozilla.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoFines aren't a way to just buy your way out of obeying the law. At some point if they persist in monopolistic activities then they will get broken up.
- WorldPeas 10mo agoI don't think the FTC prioritizes that right now
- DaSHacka 10mo agoI don't think they've prioritized that ever in recent memory, or they would have already been broken up a long time ago.
- netdevphoenix 10mo agoThe last time that happened was almost half a century ago afaik. I highly doubt Big Tech entities will get broken up in our lifetime
- lelanthran 10mo agoThere's penalties other than fines for abusive monopolies. Fines are only the slightest punishment.
- dig1 10mo agochromium-ungoogled works perfectly fine with "extensions that can do real ad blocking" ;)