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Firefox + Ublock = đź‘‘ (lemmy.fosshost.com)
submitted 3 months ago by majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] NiPfi@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And in the meantime Mozilla keeps making worse decisions, too

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Enshitification of all the things.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone who gives a damn needs to be in charge of mozilla but i dont see that happening.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As long as they are entirely supported by Google, they aren't going to try too hard to outcompete them.

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[–] VarosBounska@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I do not study in detail if this combination is necessary, but:

  • Firefox (of course)
  • Ghostery
  • Ublock Origin
  • Privacy Badger
  • Decentraleyes
  • Disconnect
[–] ivn@jlai.lu 0 points 3 months ago

All of them except uBlock Origin are in Arkenfox "Do not bother" extension list: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother

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[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Pihole for the win

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's not the same. DNS blocking is great but it can block as well as a proper ad blocker.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 0 points 3 months ago

No, but better then nothing and network wide

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I keep seeing this posted here and elsewhere. Is there a simple, easy step-by-step explanation for how to build one of these and how to deploy it on your home network?

I’ve got very limited experience with working with Raspberry Pi.

[–] flipflop97@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you don't want to tinker with a Raspberry Pi, a simpler alternative would be AdGuard DNS

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
(Configure manually -> Routers)

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Step 1) Get a raspberry pi. Step 2) Open terminal and paste: curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash Step 3) Point your DNS to the raspberry pi’s IP address.

https://pi-hole.net/

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. So does it slow down your speeds any that you can tell?

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It doesn’t really. I won’t give a whole course on DNS and network stuff, but basically it has zero effect on your download and upload speeds.

DNS is like a phone book. You type Wikipedia.org and DNS translates that to an address like 200.92.36.68

When you download stuff, that’s not going through the Pi at all. So there’s no negative effects.

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago

I looked into making one a while back and it's honestly quite complicated if you're not a techy person. I gave up on it, though I think you can also buy them pre-built for a bit more money so you might look into that.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You actually need a pi to run pihole, anything that can run docker would do

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[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use one too, but it doesn’t block certain things like YouTube’s embedded adverts. Also use uBlock Origin.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It will block youtube ads if the video is embedded in another website. When I want to find a youtube video on my tv I just search it on DuckDucGo, since watching it there blocks ads and seems to bypass any restrictions they've placed on watching videos outside of youtube.

I need to set up a cheap computer and just run the TV as a monitor so I can have all the features I want, including a real browser with ublock. But in the meantime, this fixes the one issue I have with DNS level blocking.

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

You can get “android on a stick” computers and sideload some de-googled stuff. They plug right into the USB port of some smart tvs. You might be able to hack an Amazon Firestick too.

[–] HauntedBucket@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am specifically waiting for this to happen so I can be part of the flood to Firefox when they finally throw the switch.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Why wait?

Brave browser exists for those who are particularly attached to chromium.

[–] HauntedBucket@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not touching brave with a 10 ft pole but thanks for your advertisement

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Lemmy always seems to hate Brave but no one ever says why

[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)
  • shady issues in the past from company
  • heavily integrated with crypto (controversial for some)
  • CEO is a transphobe
  • it's still Chrome under the hood
[–] ivn@jlai.lu 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • CEO is also homophobic and a covid skeptic
  • the browser used to modify crypto exchange URLs to add it's affiliate code to it
  • it used to collect donations for content creators without their consent
[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why people always forget the simple:

Switching Google to Brave is not an upgrade is a sidegrade.

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[–] ivn@jlai.lu 0 points 3 months ago

I don't know, I've seen answers to this so many times on Lemmy.

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

My personal reason, I looked at their code and it was amateur town. Hacked together trash. There’s a proper way to modify Chromium and they didn’t follow any of it. In contrast, Vivaldi’s coders knew what they were doing. I don’t actively use or support Chrome, but if you’re going to do something, do it right.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I've seen this answered so many times it'd make your head spin, looney-toons style. If you don't know then you haven't been paying any attention.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm just learning about what all the fuss around Brave is. But I'd be interested to hear how Google seems to be the ethical choice for a daily driver browser currently. It's obviously fine to not want to use Brave, but how is it the inferior choice when compared to Chrome (or even considered a sidegrade)? Even with all the issues mentioned I'd still recommend it as the lesser of the 2 evils compared to Chrome.

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[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Wonder if the recent antitrust ruling about Google paying for being the default search engine will affect Mozilla's funding.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Has it actually been confirmed when it's coming? I feel like this has been threatened for years now.

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It started in june, for now it's just showing a warning saying that the extension will soon no longer be supported. They'll be disabled gradually until the beginning of 2025.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah I see. Boiling the frog as it were.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We need another meme like this about Firefox but with the first panel saying "Antitrust judgement against Google" and the second panel blank, without anyone coming to the rescue.

The large majority of Mozilla's revenue comes from the money that Google pays to be the default search engine in Firefox.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I use firefox, I mostly like it, but it still doesn't support chromium style tab groups (no, that one extension is not similar), and its webgpu implementation also doesn't work on most websites more than a year after Google made their version available by default

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[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Source: I made it up

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I guess Anonym, PPA, Cliqz, pocket, and the default telemetry that is non-trivial to disable are all just hallucinations.

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Mozilla is about to collapse due to the Google antitrust ruling though.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Um, what makes you think that?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Mozilla makes about $590m a year.

$510m of that is from Google paying for the search engine default spot.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

While introducing opt-out tracking where you data is sent to advertisers. Get LibreWolf instead.

[–] VarosBounska@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

Oh I didn't know this fork, thanks!

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or just set the few relevant settings manually, if you need nightly/dev edition.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Until the next dumb shit Mozilla does without telling its users.

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