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.
  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages to enable Manifest 2, all in 8 easy steps (written as if it’s 6 steps to make it seem less onerous). For now. Until Google switches it off completely.

    Or, drop Chrome and Chromium based browsers (such as Edge, Vivaldi, Brave etc) in one easy step. Install a privacy respecting Firefox based browser like Firefox itself or Librewolf.

    • TurboLag@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages

      I think this is a very important point that too few people are raising and it’s getting buried under the spam of “switch to Firefox” messages. Yes, switching to Firefox is an option. But clearly some people don’t want to do it, and we give them these workarounds without saying what they really do and without highlighting that they are potentially dangerous. You use your browser for a large part of your interaction with your computer, so any downgrade in security is going to be significant. To me, the short-term implications of this are far more important than the longstanding Chrome-vs-Firefox discussion.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why jump through all these hoops, and lessen the security of your browser in the process, just to do something that is being fully stripped out soon anyway?

    Just install Firefox. It’s not like you can’t import your bookmarks and such.

  • Der_Fossyler@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can, but you should just switch to Firefox or accept ads in Chromium Browsers.

    I can imagine that in the long run it will get harder for their forks to block ads with any extension.

    I can’t wait for Ladybird in the future 💪.

    • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.comdeleted by creatorEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There is no such option “accepting ads”. I will do everything in my power to block any type of ad in every device i own, no matter the diffuculty.

      • Aitolda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oh definitely. I gave up ads about 20 years ago when I got rid of cable. Not a chance in hell I’m going back.

  • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year 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

  • Avicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    you can enable ublock in chrome by downloading firefox from chrome, installing it, then installing ublock in firefox and finally removing chrome

  • malfisya@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Let it go bro. Just switch to Firefox & co. Or at least use it less for something that does not require ad-blocking.

  • MetalMachine@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Just use Firefox. Its people’s fault that it got so bad because you basically gave them a browser monopoly