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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Dazed_Confused@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

It literally took me less than ten minutes to set up firefox. I carried all my bookmarks and passwords from edge and set up a mozilla account and everything is synced across linux, windows and android.

The only thing I'm worried of, is if some websites require chrome to work, as was the case with some government sites that only worked with internet explorer in the old days.

(Does anyone know if the default user agent is chrome? I used to log in a local streaming site from edge and it wouldn't work, as it required chrome, but I used an extension to take care of the user agent. On firefox it works no problem.)

[–] BootyBuccaneer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

I recommend the User-Agent Switcher and Manager Firefox addon for those struggling with some sites.

You can also report a broken site to Mozilla directly via the browser menu.

There was another (third-party?) page where you could report websites but I forgot its url.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I'm using the Chrome Mask extension on the few sites that complain

[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

half of the websites are google-owned

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just use Edge on sites that don't support Firefox, if you must use them. Same as how we used IE for government sites back in the day.

[–] gnutard@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why not use chromium or a hardened version of it? Edge is proprietary software.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Edge is chromium.......

[–] gnutard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but Edge comes with a lot more proprietary components added.

I would recommend installing ungoogled-chromium or using another hardened FOSS version of chromium instead.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Orrrrr

Stop using chromium based browsers.

[–] gnutard@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

The person was saying they couldn't access a certain site with Firefox, that's why I suggested a chromium based browser.