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[–] maquise@ttrpg.network 46 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Just this morning all the posts (here on Lemmy) were about how everyone was uninstalling their adblockers.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 130 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.

Adblocking still works fine on Firefox. Just update your UBO filters.

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I literally have un-installed chrome. I had to use it on an office machine today and it felt weird.

[–] TinyPizza@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago
[–] lemann@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

The default browser at my work is Firefox lol, only our testing team and a few others use Chrome. It's a pretty welcome change 👍

I find it a little funny when we get Chrome-specific bug reports though

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Aside from Firefox, are there any decent non-Chromium-based browsers left?

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks.

For anyone else interested, as of November 2023:

Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox's engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox.

Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple's engine), and Blink (Google's engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There are many. They're just not as popular.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why the fuck would anyone uninstall their ad blocker just because one site demands it? Whitelists exist for a reason.

[–] smokingManhole@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll stop using Internet before I even consider whitelisting YouTube.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Right? I've used ad blockers as soon as they popped on the Internet scene. I hate advertisements, commercials and any kind of marketing. I don't watch TV, and when I do or it's on nearby, I get up and walk away during the commercials. When sponsored stuff interrupts a video I'm watching, I skip forward until the video returns. If I have to use a browser with no ad block, I straight up abandon most sites. It's untenable!

In general, I treat life and products/services I want like a business doing a Request For Purchase (RFP). If I want something, I'll look up companies that provide that product or service and rely heavily on the recommendations of friends, family, and community when making a purchase decision. Those who aggressively solicit me will almost never get my money or be considered.

Fuck capitalism.

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

To install another one that works!

[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That article was full of such blatantly misleading crap. Headline talks about record number of adblocker uninstalls, but the actual data says it was an uptick in both installs and uninstalls. In other words it was people cycling through different adblockers trying to find one that still worked.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I actually removed a lot of ad blockers from all my devices once I found that uBO could do it all. That could be what they are seeing from others as well, perhaps!

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And that didn't mention ublock origion, the blocker that still works...

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It did at the very very bottom. I almost missed it.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IDK why anyone uses anything else. It has street cred, it improves response times, it is ideologically just about blocking ads

I use tracker blockers and containers too, but every machine that has been in my hands for more than 10 minutes has it installed

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Because they're still on Chrome based browsers. It's not really about the ad blocker, it's about the browser. You're not going to beat Google at their own game using the tools that they gave you.

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Stupid Wired article was stupid.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's like war propaganda, both sides are eager to claim they're winning lol