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Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
uBlacklist maybe? if you use Google for search
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
- How Google is killing independent sites like ours
- UBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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What's Going on at Google? Masive Search Engine Spam Attack
> I want to be able to, with one click, remove GeeksForGeeks from all my search results — forever
Try https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist, otherwise Kagi also has a similar feature.
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Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
ublacklist works with many search engines. A little bit of very easy effort goes a LONG way to cleaning up your results.
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
And here's two bonus things you need if you make use of youtube
Sponsorblock. As it says on the tin, automatically skips sponsor sections.
https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
Dearrow. An open source and crowdsourced tool replace youtubes stupid fucking clickbait title cards, and replaces many titles with better ones. You can contribute!
https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow
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Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts
Once again, preaching the uBlacklist extension to block *://answers.microsoft.com/* from search results.
- 検索サイトの💩を非表示にできるアドオン『ublacklist』更新 DuckDuckGoで動作しない不具合に対応
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Googling be like
or you could just https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
- Found this chrome extension which can block websites from google and other search engines so it can be used to block pro vеgаn websites
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Google won’t honor medical leave during its layoffs, outraging employees | Ex-Googler says she was laid off from her hospital bed shortly after giving birth.
You can use an extension to add that. uBlackList is a Chrome and Firefox extension that lets you block sites from appearing in search results for 10 different search engines (including Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Brave search).
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- Apr 24th is JavaScript Naked Day – Browse the web without JavaScript
- Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
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Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
Check out uBlock Origin's per site switches [1]
[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
If ads, in particular on YouTube, are the problem, anything Chromium-based is probably only going to get worse and worse (see [1] and [2]). So that basically leaves you with Firefox and Safari.
I work for Mozilla (speaking for myself, of course), so I'll leave you to guess which I'd recommend :P
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-oppos...
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X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Or if on mobile, it is well worth it to look up adblock options for the browser you use.
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Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair
What are the compelling advantages of Chrome nowadays?
Chrome is working to limit the capabilities of ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes...
Whereas a compelling advantage of Firefox is that uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Advertising networks have often been vectors for malware. Using an ad blocker is an important security measure. Even the FBI recommends ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
> It allows for 30,000 dynamic rules
That is not what we mean by dynamic filters. From https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-fi...
> However, to support more frequent updates and user-defined rules, extensions can add rules dynamically too, without their developers having to upload a new version of the extension to the Chrome Web Store.
What Chrome is talking about is the ability to specify rules at runtime. What critics of Manifest V3 are talking about is not the ability to dynamically add rules (although that can be an issue), it is the ability to add dynamic rules -- ie rules that analyze and rewrite requests in the style of the blockingWebRequest permission.
It's a little deceptive to claim that the concerns here are outdated and to point to vague terminology that sounds like it's correcting the problem, but on actual inspection turns out to be entirely separate functionality from what the GP was talking about.
> Giving this ability to extensions can slow down the browser for the user. These ads can still be blocked through other means.
This is the debate; most of the adblocking community disagrees with this assertion. uBO maintains a list of some common features that are already not possible to support in Chrome ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... ) and has written about features that are not able to be supported via Chrome's current V3 API ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... ). Of particular note are filtering for large media elements (I use this a lot on mobile Firefox, it's great for reducing page size), and top-level filtering of domains/fonts.
- uBlock Origin – 1.55.0
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
> "Its happened before"
> That's not an argument
It's a subheading to "2. Browser engine monopoly". The subsection's purpose is describing how bad things were during the IE monopoly to reinforce that it's something to be avoided.
> in fact you could counter-argue that IE left a lot of technical debt
That would be agreeing with the article, unless I understand what you mean.
> On top of that, the internet was very different back then.
In a way that now makes it harder for truly new competing engines to pop up due to increased complexity of the web.
> I'm still not convinced, why would I change my browser?
The points made in the article are:
* Increased privacy, opposed to willingly giving your data to an ad-tech company
* Helps avoid a browser engine monopoly which would effectively let Google dictate web standards
* It’s fast and has a nice user interface
Onto which I'd add:
* Content blockers work best on Firefox (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...), doubly so when Manifest V3 rolls out
* Allows more customization of interface and home page
* UX improvements, like the clutter-free reader mode, aren't vetoed to protect search revenue as with Chrome (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675467)
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Ask HN: Is Firefox team too small to do serious security tests?
Advertising networks are vectors for malware:
https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/malvertising
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
So if you're concerned about security then you want the browser with the best ad blocker.
uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
What are some alternatives?
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
VideoAdBlockForTwitch - Blocks Ads on Twitch.tv.
searxng - SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
uBlacklist-subscription-for-developer - uBlacklist subscription list for developers
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
uBlock-Origin-dev-filter - Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other search engines. Specific to dev websites like StackOverflow or GitHub.
duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
personal-blocklist - Browser Add-on: Blocks domains/hosts from appearing in your Google search results.
ClearUrls
nsfw-filter - A free, open source, and privacy-focused browser extension to block “not safe for work” content built using TypeScript and TensorFlow.js.
AdNauseam - AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance