We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

We’ve been anticipating it for years, and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.

Now that it is finally happening, many seem to be oddly resigned to the idea that Google is taking away the best and most powerful ad content blocker available on any web browser today, with one article recommending people set up a DNS based content blocker on their network 😒 – instead of more obvious solutions.

I may not have blogged about this but I recently read an article from 1999 about why Gopher lost out to the Web, where Christopher Lee discusses the importance of the then-novel term “mind share” and how it played an important part in dictating why the web won out. In my last post, I touched on the importance of good information to democracies – the same applies to markets (including the browser market) – and it seems to me that we aren’t getting good information about this topic.

This post is me trying to give you that information, to help increase the mind share of an actual alternative. Enjoy!

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      22 days ago

      For me, it was multi-account containers. All Meta properties open in their own independent, sandboxed tabs now. Xwitter opens in a different independent, sandboxed tab. It makes their tracking cookies useless, plus it also lets you be logged into the same service with multiple accounts simultaneously.

    • karpintero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      22 days ago

      Vimium. Allows you to use your keyboard to navigate instead of needing to always reach for the mouse.

    • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      “I don’t care about cookies” although it does occasionally break some websites

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      413·
      22 days ago

      probably different for everyone, for me i use Adblocker Ultimate Ublock Origin Enhancer for Youtube DeArrow Stylebot Buster Context play/pause

        • riot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          22 days ago

          Looking at the source of the comment, OP only hit enter once per extension name they entered, and that’s why they’re showing up as if they’re one long run-on sentence. @Num10ck@lemmy.world probably didn’t know that you have to double enter for things to show up on separate lines.

          I went ahead and found links for all of them, for anyone curious to check em out. I don’t personally know any of them, besides uBlock and Stylebot:

          • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            22 days ago

            thanks Riot, it looked fine in Voyager when i was creating it. hitting enter once for carriage return has been correct for a century, whats with the double enter system?

            • riot@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              22 days ago

              As far as I know, that’s just always how it’s been for markdown, which is what Lemmy uses. So in order to be sure that your comment looks the way you want it to, it’s a good idea to use the Preview function, which Voyager thankfully also has under the 3 dots menu in the lower right.

              @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk also mentioned that you can put two spaces at the end of each word, and then it’ll count the one enter as a proper line break.
              Like this. You can also do as I did, and just put a dash in front of everything, and then it’ll turn into an unordered list.

      • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        22 days ago

        Christ on a bike, you’d think they’d give it a more succinct name

        (Either leave a blank line between lines, or put two spaces at the end of each word)