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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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!

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[–] underthesign@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago (64 children)

Firefox needs to work on ensuring seamless compatibility with more websites, web apps and so on, because I'm personally very bored with my kids' schools and related services sending out emails and forms with links that simply won't open in FF but are clearly expecting Chrome or Edge where they work fine. Yes, this is on the lazy developers, but if FF want wider scale take-up outside of geeky niche groups then this is the stuff they must fix.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I encounter this very infrequently. I think I only have 1-2 examples at work. It's not a huge deal for me to spin up a chrome for those one or two occasions.

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I recall I didn't get some sites working on Chrome either, when Firefox fails me 😅

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

This is also true. The majority of the time when something doesn't work on Firefox and I try to go to Chrome, it doesn't work there too 😂

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Just make an electron out of those sites 🌚

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sounds interesting, care to expand?

The only concrete one I can actually recollect is generating a quote from our quoting tool in Salesforce. I just ended up running my 100+ Salesforce windows in Chrome because it has a good feature where you can name each window so I can see which customers I'm working on in the taskbar. It's good to have those cordoned off from my normal browsing anyway. So this one doesn't bother me. For everything else I use Firefox.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I used this prompt

I want to create an electron app for linux of a third party webapp

How would I do that?

And chatGPT gave me a good instruction, will try that out. Apparently, you only need node, electron and the javascript like this:


const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')

function createWindow() {
  // Create the browser window
  const win = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    webPreferences: {
      nodeIntegration: true
    }
  })

  // Load the third-party web app
  win.loadURL('https://www.thirdpartyapp.com')

  // Optionally remove the default menu
  win.setMenu(null)

  // Open DevTools (optional for debugging)
  // win.webContents.openDevTools()
}

// Run the createWindow function when Electron is ready
app.whenReady().then(createWindow)

// Quit when all windows are closed
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
  if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
    app.quit()
  }
})

app.on('activate', () => {
  if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
    createWindow()
  }
})

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I still don't know what this is though? Something Linux specific?

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

Electron is a tool to bundle a website and a interpreter for that website in an application. That works on many platforms. Official discord desktop app, for example, is an electron app, spotify as well.

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