uBlock
brave-core
| uBlock | brave-core | |
|---|---|---|
| 3,020 | 176 | |
| 51,693 | 2,633 | |
| 4.6% | 2.6% | |
| 9.8 | 10.0 | |
| 2 days ago | about 2 hours ago | |
| JavaScript | HTML | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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uBlock
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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
uBlock Origin always worked best in Firefox anyhow:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- uBlock's Origin "medium" blocking mode
- About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"
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Starlink in the Falklands, a National Emergency Situation?
With these internet connections, I really hope the local techies are helping set people up uBlock Origin, running something like ClearURLs to short-circuit unnecessary redirects (I assume GEO latency), and running LocalCDN to avoid re-downloading the same libraries and assets over and over. Probably also good to install something that defaults Youtube to 360p, and Pihole for mobile/smart devices.
I would run uBO in Medium Mode[1], but I expect that's probably too much for most non-technical users.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
- I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
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Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
*uMatrix is unmaintained, and uBlock Origin can do fine-grained control – it just requires the “advanced user” setting for some reason, even if you expand the panels all the way. https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/quick-guide:-popup-us... (see “I am an advanced user!” expanding section at the bottom)
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Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet
No issues here on Firefox 128.4.0esr, even with uBlock Origin medium mode[1] blocking 31% of the page.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
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Is Chrome the New IE?
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- Ask HN: Which browser extensions could you not do without?
- uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
brave-core
- Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
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Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam [video]
I am a heavy user of Brave and I would love for you to expand on what you mean.
For those curious, here is the open-code repo of all Chromium changes Brave applies. I have not read every commit myself, so any flagging would be appreciated: https://github.com/brave/brave-core
- GitHub pull request support for Brave Leo
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
Unrelated but about Brave and interesting to me: I recently found myself having a large upstream project that I need to maintain some custom patches for, and there's a need for deeper customizations and I worry that my rudimentary system of applying .patch files will turn into an unmaintainable nightmare of merge conflicts after every rebase. I was thinking about possible solutions, and it occurred to me that Brave being Chromium-based must have this same challenge but an order of magnitude more difficult, so I looked for their code to see how they solved this issue.
It's pretty interesting! They do basically the same thing for core Chromium, applying a (big) set of patches[1].
Incidentally, I'd be interested to hear any ideas/approaches to this problem. I'm guessing if there was something clearly better, Brave would be doing it, but it seems like there should be a better way even if I can't think of one.
[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches
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Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/13737
(Incidentally, that PR number is not quite elite. :)
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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
I disagree that it's lip service Brave has a ton of engine level privacy patches https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches
To my understanding you can't match it with just js extensions.
Only firefox on the highest security mode comes close I think?
Or ungoogled chromium? (brave has most of their patches IIRC)
Are there other options that have this number of patches?
- With the merge of this pull request, Brave Browser disables WebEnvironmentIntegrity
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Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results
Chromium is not 100% Google's forever and always, though they do currently lead the way, and with the most used/backed fork.
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/19476
- With merge of this pull request, Brave Browser disables WebEnvironmentIntegrity
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Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
They have much more changes than just compile flags. Here's the repo where they maintain their patch set: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches
What are some alternatives?
AdNauseam - AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance
cromite - Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]
Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS repositories and doesn't include patches not relevant to the build targets used on GrapheneOS.