this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
30 points (96.9% liked)

Technology

73534 readers
2883 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
30
uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store (chromewebstore.google.com)
submitted 4 months ago by cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
97 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

laughs in Firefox

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Cries in only Chrome and Edge at work 😒

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tell your IT.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. What company wouldn't allow it?

When I was working for an ad exchange, everyone had adblock installed in their browsers, I found that quite ironic.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would argue it's a security issue not to have any ad blocking. Many scams online start with popups or fake ads.

So if you get the opportunity to talk to IT that's what I would mention.

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

A good IT is blocking ads at a company-level. Browser extensions wouldn’t matter, and in fact, shouldn’t be allowed for the same reason.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

My IT department uninstalled it from my work laptop, and told me not to reinstall it because - and I quote: "The only browser IT officially supports is Google Chrome."

What makes this doubly stupid is that I'm a web developer. I literally can't test my stuff on another browser...

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Download Firefox portable

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, I switched to Firefox when this whole Manifest V3 thing was announced, I only still have Chrome installed because it's better for PDFs than Firefox and once in a great while i run into a site that doesn't work right on Firefox.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] RobMyBot@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Been a loooong time

[–] Nanook@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Google is not an IT company. It’s an advertising company. Surprised Pikachu, it blocks ad blockers.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's been an ad company for a long time, though, and blocking ad blockers is new.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Because they are at the end of their growth phase and have entered their squeeze until dead phase.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] jk1006@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I am from Germany and it is just sad how many people use these apps from shit companies without thinking, when suitable alternatives exist everywhere. Just use Firefox, it will work for 99,9% without any flaw. I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but could only convinge a few people to change to Signal. It is as easy as downloading a new app to prevent supporting Meta, but that's too much effort for many :-(

[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

it will work for 99,9% without any flaw

Unfortunately not anymore.

And it doesn't help, that Mozilla is also slowly turning towards enshittification... (since they fired all servo devs...)

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

Use firefox

[–] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Chrome is no longer available on my computer.

[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Webserial is only reason I see to install Chrome. For everything else Firefox works great.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

But ublock origin lite is by the same dev.. Not as many features but it conforms to the new rules and is still much better than not having a blocker if you use chrome or edge.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] g4nd41ph@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.

I've started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

never had a problem with firefox and youtube

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: next β€Ί