Post 3310534 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
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(DIR) Post #3268720 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2019-01-22T23:35:07Z
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guess which all-powerful tech monopoly is breaking ublock origin (and umatrix, and likely many other similar add-ons, such as noscript) in their browser, which happens to be the most popular browser in the world?https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23who could have foreseen this? who would ever think that an advertising company's web browser would end up breaking compatibility with an ad blocker? frankly i'm shocked
(DIR) Post #3269217 by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2019-01-22T23:54:34Z
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@lynnesbian yeah, I almost fell off my chair …
(DIR) Post #3281159 by leip4Ier@infosec.exchange
2019-01-23T08:52:24Z
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@lynnesbian from their document, DeclarativeNetRequest section:>and b) we can prevent or disable inefficient ruleswhile i like the idea (because injecting custom js to every page just doesn't feel right), that "we can disable" is... worrying.
(DIR) Post #3281974 by cobalto@niu.moe
2019-01-23T09:35:53Z
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@lynnesbian let's make chrome what IE used to be, it's not from M$, there's no way all the bad things happen again. Google is not evil you know.Yeah man, that was unpredictable.
(DIR) Post #3310533 by alva@mastodon.social
2019-01-23T15:27:33Z
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@lynnesbian People were also upset to find that Gmail has a list of all of their purchases. Google's terms let them do basically anything, but also explicitly mentions collecting data about purchases. I know most people don't read the terms (and I don't blame them,) but when some tech bro who supposedly cares about privacy writes a blog post about how mad he is, it's a bit amusing.
(DIR) Post #3310534 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2019-01-23T15:29:40Z
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@alva who would have thought that a company that makes the vast majority of its revenue through advertising products and services gathers data relevant to advertising products and services
(DIR) Post #3310551 by branko@octodon.social
2019-01-23T12:08:15Z
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@lynnesbian The Chromium-muBlock discussion is going well... </sarcasm>The comments in this screenshot weren't deleted by their authors, I bet.
(DIR) Post #3310579 by redneonglow@anime.website
2019-01-24T03:15:14.194778Z
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@lynnesbian To my knowledge Chrome didnt allow ad blockers which don't give exceptions for Google anyway?
(DIR) Post #3310615 by redneonglow@anime.website
2019-01-24T03:17:36.072764Z
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@lynnesbian Before I read your whole message to be about Chrome, I thought #PaleMoon was up to their old tricks again
(DIR) Post #3310728 by PuppyJack@canislupus.im
2019-01-24T02:51:01Z
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@lynnesbian long live Firefox!
(DIR) Post #3542514 by cute@deadinsi.de
2019-01-23T00:13:51Z
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@lynnesbian they make fun of me for using Firefox stable but I have tree style tabs and adblocking so who’s laughing now
(DIR) Post #3542563 by awitch@witches.live
2019-01-23T04:05:32Z
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@lynnesbian is that only on Chrome, or also on other chromium-based browsers?
(DIR) Post #3542564 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2019-01-23T04:05:57Z
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@awitch all chromium based browsers
(DIR) Post #3542565 by awitch@witches.live
2019-01-23T04:14:03Z
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@lynnesbian fakbaaakka :angery: gaggle can go eat its ads through the backend (rant over)I went from Firefox to Opera to now Vivaldi, all have pros and cons, but next up in the line for me seems to be Brave. Have you tried it?
(DIR) Post #3542566 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2019-01-23T04:17:30Z
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@awitch brave has some kinda scummy business practices, like supplying a mode that blocks ads only to replace them with its own, and using a cryptocurrency called "basic attention tokens" to measure how effective their ads arealso, go quote wikipedia, "In a future version of the browser, the company intends to adopt a pay-to-surf business model."
(DIR) Post #3542567 by awitch@witches.live
2019-01-23T04:19:29Z
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@lynnesbian damn, sounds bad. Are there any relatively good “mainstream” options?
(DIR) Post #3542568 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2019-01-23T04:20:51Z
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@awitch i use firefox :blobderpy: it's not perfect but its the best out there imoeven if mozilla is making some really poor decisions rn
(DIR) Post #3542569 by awitch@witches.live
2019-01-23T04:21:49Z
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@lynnesbian oh, time to go back then? I just really love Vivaldi’s customization options, just the tab stacks and tiling is the best imo
(DIR) Post #3542570 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2019-01-23T04:23:22Z
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@awitch there's a tiling tab add-on for firefox called "tree style tabs", it's what i use :blobcatuwu:
(DIR) Post #3542791 by bob@soc.freedombone.net
2019-01-30T09:23:20.043120Z
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@lynnesbian This means that ad blocking is becoming sufficiently mainstream that it's beginning to have an impact on Google's bottom line.
(DIR) Post #3542883 by carbontwelve@d20hero.club
2019-01-30T09:43:12.744019Z
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@lynnesbian I have always thought the future was network-wide ad blocking, like with the pi-hole project.
(DIR) Post #3544823 by maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com
2019-01-30T11:05:34+00:00
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@bob @lynnesbian It's funny how so many people's almost instinctual response is "lol, Im on Firefox" as if it is some sort of safe shelter, when Google effectively controls Mozilla through it's pocketbook as well. Without Google's money, Mozilla dies. Google is almost 85% of their funding according to their last financial statements. At this point Firefox exists solely as an anti-trust shield.
(DIR) Post #3545204 by succfemboi@iscute.moe
2019-01-30T11:49:23.295463Z
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@lynnesbian I think many users might switch to firefox then
(DIR) Post #3548222 by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
2019-01-30T13:49:00Z
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@succfemboi we can only hope