Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) : technology

I mean it's just a browser. Bit of fiddling with the saved password and your go to go again to never look back. If they value their users they will improve again like Firefox did in the background over years.

I only hope a good search engine will appear again. I don't like the alternatives.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 47 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Run a pihole or similar

Your web browser is just one piece of software on your network capable of displaying ads and collecting data

[–] uzay@infosec.pub 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Network-level adblock cannot replace browser-level adblock and vice versa

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 4 months ago

Both… both is good

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That’s reminds me, I should go update mine.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm only familiar with pi holes on a cursory level, but you have to update them manually? This is a bit of a turn off.

[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

You could schedule it with cron. You usually don't need to update the lists very often though, and you don't want to either as you're just wasting the bandwidth of the hosts of the lists, who aren't making any money off hosting them.

[–] karika@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

You have to type one command:

pihole -up

https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/update/

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[+] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 51 points 4 months ago

Use Firefox if you want but don't donate to Mozilla. Money doesn't go to Firefox development anyway.

Also if they can afford to pay their CEO $3 millions a year, they don't need your donations.

[–] 001Guy001@lemm.ee 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Just adding that as I understand this, donations to the Mozilla Foundation cannot go towards Firefox, because it's [edit: Firefox is] actually part of the Mozilla Corporation. To help with funding Firefox people can consider purchasing the Corporation's other products (VPN/Relay/Monitor), or purchasing merch.

See more here on the AMA on Reddit, and this thread

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

uBlock Origin for Chrome has over 34 million installations according to the Chrome Web Store

Oh wow, that is very surprising to me. I somehow expected a billion of installations. Especially when I saw the screenshots without it in the article, how can anyone browse the web without it?

[–] corbin@infosec.pub 23 points 4 months ago

Adblock users are still a statistical minority of web users. Most people don’t care (as evidenced by Netflix’s ad tier gaining subscribers every quarter) or don’t know those extensions exist.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are other ad block options. And there is Firefox. I use Vivaldi browser, it has a built-in ad blocker, just like many other browsers. I just wish Vivaldi would be Firefox based.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 7 points 4 months ago

But Firefox has a installation base of 2.8% and Chrome 65%. The Firefox uBlock Origin installations are in my opinion statistically insignificant, so are Brave browser installations which are even lower.

[–] corbin@infosec.pub 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

I didn't even click the article. Here's Why -

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[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I think I've made this comment before, but I really wish people would learn more about technologies like pihole. Get the ad once, get the hyperlink, add it to blacklist.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I run a pihole as well, but it is a very rudimentary tool compared to browser based adblockers like uBlock origin. It can only block DNS queries, and can't for example block ads if they are served from the same domain as the main site (i.e. youtube) or block specific elements on a page or block a specific script from running.

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Until that ad also happens to be for a legitimate website you want to visit. I'd rather have a adblocker I can change right there in the website

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