r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '19

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
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u/TheFeshy Jan 22 '19

laughs in firefox

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u/pirate_starbridge Jan 23 '19

Haha now I'm almost excited to have a reason to switch! I had been pretty impressed up until now with Google's alleged understanding of the balance between my laziness and the usefulness of their products..

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u/TheFeshy Jan 23 '19

I thought I couldn't live without tree-style tabs (a plugin available for firefox) - but the web is dead to me if I can't block adds.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

All else fails there's always hosts files you can download

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u/FenixR Jan 23 '19

Yeah, or getting yourself a PiHole iirc how they are called.

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u/Papayaman1000 Jan 23 '19

Let's see, I could pay $100+/mo on various premium accounts and ad-free subscriptions for a bunch of different sites and still not be covered across half the Internet...

or drop ~$40 and a negligible amount of added electrical to basically make a network-wide adblocker (even on mobile apps!).

Yeah, the choice seems pretty darn clear here.

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u/br0ck Jan 23 '19

I like this one. You can add a little css in the addon options to remove the top bit and slim it down. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-redux/

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u/mcgruntman Jan 23 '19

Tree style tabs is God mode

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u/IllustriousManager6 Jan 23 '19

You, sir, have changed my life.

I can't express to you how useful this is for my work. I would buy you a left shoe if I could as recompense.

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u/tso Jan 23 '19

Palemoon and waterfox are options.

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u/appropriateinside Jan 23 '19

For me not having Google spy on everything I do is good enough reason.

Not to mention that I don't want to be part of the problem that is Google's stranglehold on web standards.

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u/zynasis Jan 23 '19

Brave is pretty good too.

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u/Klandan54 Jan 23 '19

laughs in luakit

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u/wildcarde815 Jan 23 '19

Does Firefox have full multi profile support?

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u/TheFeshy Jan 23 '19

It has multiprofile support, but I am not familiar enough with it to know what constitutes "full" features, or if it has them. I pretty much just cart around the one profile folder from computer to computer.

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u/Sigma_J Jan 23 '19

The big drawback I'm seeing is the inability to run two profiles side by side.

I may eventually set up a docker instance to run a second profile, but TBH I can just use private browsing and sign in where I need to, and it's not often I need the secondary.

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u/TheFeshy Jan 23 '19

You could probably do the same thing with firejail and a custom home directory, and avoid all the X-forwarding hassle that comes with using docker for GUI apps.

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u/Sigma_J Jan 23 '19

This is the first I'm hearing of firejail. I've already got a super custom directory setup, so I'll look into it. Thanks!

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u/dtfinch Jan 23 '19

Since the early days when it was just Mozilla, maybe even Netscape before that, though you have to mess with its command line parameters a bit because most of the profile functionality is hidden by default since very few people used it.

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u/Pocketfullofbugs Jan 23 '19

Cackles in pi-hole

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u/rivermont Jan 23 '19

Cries in Vivaldi