Google recently disabled uBlock Origin and other extensions for Chrome users with no apparent option to restore them. The good news is that you can still make uBlock Origin work. Here is how.
  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Lots of comments in here saying to just use Firefox, and they’re entirely correct, but the one use case for articles like this I could think of is where you are forced to use Chrome at work but can still install extensions.

      • disco@lemdro.idEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        I used ironfox too, just a lot of website functionality was broken using it. (At least for me and this was months ago). Settled on fennec.

        • a_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          I main ironfox and use a base version of firefox for the occasional websites that break.

        • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Been using it with uBlock Origin in medium mode which breaks even more sites and I don’t have much trouble with broken sites.

          For the occasional website that just refuses to work, I use Cromite.

          This, of course, will depend on the sites you use as well so YMMV.

        • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          I use IronFox all the time. For me almost nothing is broken.

          Once a year I find one low value site that I have to load in Cromite to see what it is, and then I never use that trash site again.

          In other words, IronFox fulfills 100% of all my browsing needs excellently.

          I used Mull before IronFox, and my experience there was excellent as well.

          There is no good reason to use Chrome today or even some years back when Mull was the thing.

      • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        lol noooooooooooo

        Horrible from a security standpoint. A good step into the future, but honestly let it go.

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Tbf, win7 was the best os i ever used. Only to be royally fucked by win8, win10 and win11. Oh how it has fallen…

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        Hmm, openSUSE Tumbleweed has been the best OS I’ve ever used, and it’s still available. Windows 7 was marginally better than Vista because they fixed the broken stuff, but it still had all the problems of a Windows OS.

        • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Except all problems of a windows system werent on win7. Bloat? Minimal, was mostly the theme that was heavy but could be disabled. Forced updates? Didnt exist yet. Hardware requirements? A running pc. Half assed new ui? Didnt exist yet. Confusing configs that were all over the place? Nope, started in win8 and 10. Software comparability? 90% hell yes.

          Win7 was a polished vista, with loads of bloat removed, performance improvements and 1000% more stable.
          Win8 started screwing with shit and moving stuff partly and it went downhill from there.

          And im also comparing it to os’ of the time. Clearly with todays tech id pick a linux over win7 anyday, but in those days win7 was king

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Nah, in those days I picked Linux. In fact, I got a “win7 ready laptop” and still picked Linux over it. Windows 7 was better than Vista, but it didn’t fix the other issues I had w/ windows.

            I honestly think Win10 was better than Win7.

  • nikolaia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    The UBlock Origin Lite app (currently in Testflight beta but seems to be full, but hopefully coming to the app store soon) works great with iOS Safari. I use that on iOS and Firefox on the desktop, which turns out to be a great combo if you have password and bookmark management separate.

    Firefox Focus is also great as the default browser on the phone to avoid links opening from Meta or Google in Safari.

    Running the «Always in Container» extension in Firefox gives the same effect on desktop and avoids opening a link in the wrong container. Highly recommended: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/always-in-container/

    • supermurs@kbin.earth
      3·
      4 months ago

      Is the uBlock Origin Lite TestFlight app only for Safari or is it system wide?

      I’d love to benefit from it while using Firefox on iOS.

      • nikolaia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Installs as a Safari Extension, so I believe it is only for Safari and not for the «webkit core» itself that all browsers on iOS use.

        Another option is the Orion browser from Kagi that supports desktop extensions like Ublock Origin.

  • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    For those that do need to use Chrome for whatever reason, don’t bother with all this faff just use uBOL, it’s just as good as uBO

  • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    4 months ago

    Can’t wait till Kagi Browser releases their Linux version of a browser based on webkit, but it’s prob at least another year or more frmo being released and Gnome Web is so featureless it’s useless and can’t even play YouTube videos half the time in 2025…

      • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Librewolf is too hardened for my use case. By the time I tweak Librewolf to my liking, it’s functionally Firefox, but with a different icon, lol. Just gonna ride out Firefox for the next year or two and them jump off this ship.

  • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    My first web browser was Mosaic version 1. I ran version 2 alpha for a bit.

    Netscape started doing things better so I moved over to it.

    Over the years I’ve bounced around from Netscape, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and a few others (the MS browsers never really swayed me). It seemed like every year I’d be moving to a new platform or version. I usually have 3-4 browsers installed on my computers at any given time.

    Once Chrome blocked uOrigin I moved over to Firefox. Easy.

    The point is, to get the best (and safest) browsing experience, you have to be flexible. If you just use the thing that “came with the computer” you’re going to have a bad time. If Chrome wants to break your browsing experience, ditch it.