![]() I had planned to remove uBlock and re-add it as the next step to my debugging attempts but since I can't back up the settings or filters I've built up over the years, I was hesitant to move forward. Clicking the tabs on the toolbar do nothing and the blank white page remains unchanged. On opening the uBlock dashboard, only the toolbar at the top appeared and everything else is white like a blank page. I've tried turning it off then on again in the extensions page and closing my browser and reopening, but nothing seems to work. uBlock still says that it's "on" and working but it blocks 0 (0%) ads on every page according to the dropdown. I ran a virus and malware scan to make sure I didn't download anything extra, but on reopening the browser, none of the ads were being blocked anymore. My uBlock has stopped working after a particularly large download off of Mega closed my chrome browser. What hope is there for most people? Yes, you can find a laptop that is 100% Linux compatible and install Linux on it, but most of the population would not have a clue how to do it, even if they knew what Linux was.TLDR: uBlock letting all ads through even though it's on and nothing on the dashboard works. I said it was just like a mobile phone and did not need significant setting up, but I expect that she has someone to hold her hand for that too. (I checked afterwards, but the price had just gone up by £90.) She said she wanted to go to Currys because they would set it up for her. ![]() (But a horrible prospect nonetheless.) I told her about a bargain I had seen on Argos. I repeated the advice that she had received from other techies that a Chromebook would be better value for her than a Windows laptop. Just over a week ago I spoke to a lady whose laptop had died. You do not need anything particularly clever here. The Late Night Linux podcast quoted reports that YouTube ads were avoided by using Firefox and uBlock origin, and not logging into your Google account. Its amazing looking a someone else's PC and seeing a undoctored view of the world now. I think in the Linux PC world there are enough clever people to stop Ad photons hitting my eyes, but I don't think that's the case on Android or Apple where the mega-corps can stop the installation of such stuff in their walled gardens. JohnB wrote:In response to YouTube not liking ad-blockers on Brave, I use youtube-dl from the Linux command line, though a court ruling has nobbled their German website. Many on here have DDG as the default, I've tried it but didn't like it. Solution - change the default search engine to something more private, in my case I use Startpage across the board on multiple browsers (Chrome/Brave/Edge/FF/Librewolf) on desktop/mobile/laptop, which is Google search via an anonymous proxy - so no tracking. What do you think the Chromium based browser developers do already? Err, possibly modify the code base to their own ends? (As per the link I already provided.)įF takes money from Google to make it the default search engine, otherwise it would go out of business.Google also pay Apple billions a year for the same privilege of being the default SE on Safari. ![]() Guess who provides most of the funding for Firefox? Google. Nonetheless, there is a lot of suspicion of Chromium in the open source world, and that seems to have been justified. That would be more efficient than several browser suppliers maintaining equivalent code. GeoffF100 wrote:It would be possible for the open source community to maintain a fork of Chromium (ChromiumPlate perhaps) that supported ad-blockers. They may listen to me and pick out keywords to use for ads, but it's usually my wife telling me off about something. Only the oldies seem to be using it, and with people moving over to Signal and Session, I wonder how long Facebook's Whatsapp will continue. I'm not so worried about Youtube, since they 'do' provide a pretty good service and that could disappear if they don't make money from their silly ads. If I'm serious about a search then I will use Google, but prefer Duckduck. ![]() There are free VPNs around like Browsec for PCs and Secure VPN for phones. I also have Opera and Brave installed but the reviews don't see a huge difference. These days, it's mainly Firefox and Duckduckgo. I just realised that I've had uBlock on my PC for years but forgot about it. I haven't used Chrome for many, many years. Qwaszx wrote:Google moving to prevent uBlockOrigin working on Chrome.
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