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exceptione 13 hours ago [-]
For those not aware, the article assumes you are stuck in Google Chrome. Ublock works correctly in Firefox and derivatives, I advise you to use that instead to end the suffering.
If you find yourself in a "only Internet Explorer 5.5 is supported" situation, you could perhaps use Ungoogled Chromium and manually install Ublock Origin to buy yourself time to get out of that dead lock.
marysol5 22 seconds ago [-]
Outside of "Cast" to Google Devices, what is any benefit in Chrome?
Firefox works fine now, I don't think I've had those memory issues that used to plague it in forever!
atoav 32 minutes ago [-]
If you use a browser by a company that earns most of its revenue by selling ads and wonder why the ad-blocker is not working I may have a bridge to sell to you.
anonymousiam 12 hours ago [-]
The "solution" is to not use Chrome anymore.
Firefox hasn't (yet) crippled their add-ons, and says they have no plans to do so (today).
NoScript can do what you want, and more.
madars 13 hours ago [-]
Nice work! FWIW, you can still use Manifest V2 extensions, like uMatrix, uBlock Origin, or Violentmonkey, in Chrome by passing command line flags. For example, on macOS:
open -b com.google.Chrome --new --args --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled
When Google finally nerfs that, it is past time to move to Firefox or Brave, the latter of which has explicitly announced uMatrix support.
jorvi 10 hours ago [-]
> For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix
Once Google removes MV2 and it's supporting code, Brave is not going to shoulder the cost of keeping all of that patched to run on newer builds of Chromium. Especially not because their own blocking doesn't rely on it, uMatrix has been deprecated since 2021, and AdGuard is already committed to transitioning to MV3.
SoMomentary 7 hours ago [-]
I thought these stopped working altogether with the release of Chrome 142? I know you could override it for awhile there, but I've been lead to believe that option is gone.
This is part of what forced my hand and made Firefox my daily driver, at least for personal use.
madars 7 hours ago [-]
It works fine in Chrome 148. Earlier Chrome versions removed chrome://flags versions of the above even with "Temporarily unexpire M147 flags" (and similar), but command line invocation continues to work.
There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years, but still just werks.
jjav 17 minutes ago [-]
> There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years,
but still just werks.
Yes! I have uMatrix on all my computers. I wish it was still being updated but.. it still works great. The best ever.
kencausey 10 hours ago [-]
Yes, I still use it and can confirm that I have had no concerns or problems with it. On the other hand, if I had to reinstall, without research, I'm not sure how I would reinstall it. Having alternatives is a good thing.
dehrmann 9 hours ago [-]
It mostly still just works. Sometimes even with everything enabled, a site won't work.
gitaarik 21 minutes ago [-]
Indeed, this is why I eventually stopped using it; sometimes a random site wouldn't function properly, and took time to figure out it was uMatrix. It was a nice plugin indeed though.
ldayley 13 hours ago [-]
Weirdly enough I was wondering what Tavis Ormandy has been up to recently, as I haven't seen his name associated with any global show-stopping vulnerabilities from the Project Zero team for a while.
I miss uMatrix, too. Thank you for working on this!
m463 12 hours ago [-]
I still use umatrix
but cloudflare blocks my "outdated browser" all the time
comment0r 13 hours ago [-]
I don’t like Heroism, but finally a new article from Tavis Ormandy. Thanks for your work.
lpcvoid 13 hours ago [-]
>I really don’t want to give that up – is there a solution?
Use Firefox, uBO works great. While I really enjoy seeing people find creative technical workarounds, the reason for it being needed in the first place is Googles fight against Adblockers with Manifest V3. Firefox allows people to sidestep this artificial downgrade of adblocking capabilities.
tadfisher 9 hours ago [-]
But performance? Question mark?
SoMomentary 7 hours ago [-]
Webpages run a lot better when I block all that extra shit from running!
If you find yourself in a "only Internet Explorer 5.5 is supported" situation, you could perhaps use Ungoogled Chromium and manually install Ublock Origin to buy yourself time to get out of that dead lock.
Firefox works fine now, I don't think I've had those memory issues that used to plague it in forever!
Firefox hasn't (yet) crippled their add-ons, and says they have no plans to do so (today).
NoScript can do what you want, and more.
Once Google removes MV2 and it's supporting code, Brave is not going to shoulder the cost of keeping all of that patched to run on newer builds of Chromium. Especially not because their own blocking doesn't rely on it, uMatrix has been deprecated since 2021, and AdGuard is already committed to transitioning to MV3.
This is part of what forced my hand and made Firefox my daily driver, at least for personal use.
Yes! I have uMatrix on all my computers. I wish it was still being updated but.. it still works great. The best ever.
I miss uMatrix, too. Thank you for working on this!
but cloudflare blocks my "outdated browser" all the time
Use Firefox, uBO works great. While I really enjoy seeing people find creative technical workarounds, the reason for it being needed in the first place is Googles fight against Adblockers with Manifest V3. Firefox allows people to sidestep this artificial downgrade of adblocking capabilities.