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Also... es wurde doch jetzt ewig angekündigt, dass UBlock im Chrome bald nicht mehr geht, wegen irgendeinem Manifest-Dings, was released wird. Ich hatte mir schon ewig vorgenommen, dass ich jetzt bald auf einen anderen Browser wechseln muss, wenn UBlock kaputt geht, aber... es geht einfach nicht kaputt. Was ist da los?

The TailsOS devs say they include #uBlockOrigin in 🧅 Tor Browser "to remove advertisments", but tbh it removes all sorts of nasties.

Q: Do you think all 🧅 #TorBrowser installs should have #uBlock by default?

If you dont want to answer yes or no, ur welcome to just share so others know they have this option if they want to install uBlock manually. 🥸

tails.netTails - Funktionen und mitgelieferte Programme
#askfedi#privacy#safety

Nerven euch auch die Youtube Shorts in Invidious ?

Mit diesem Filter, den ihr einfach unter "meine Filter" in uBlock hinzufügt, werdet ihr sie los:

! 2024-10-16 (youtube shorts)
192.168.22.11##div.pure-u-md-1-4.pure-u-1:has(.bottom-right-overlay):not(:has(.length))

Die IP "192.168.22.11" mit der IP eures eigenen Invidious Servers ersetzen.

Those of you who had followed me, know that I am a double-browser user: @Waterfox and @Vivaldi . And that was true. Until now.

Today I decided to switch a new browser - to be honest, two new browsers.

One of them is Zen Browser - perfect for me, at least (see screenshot below).

Why did I choose Zen Browser?

- I am a vertical tabs user and hate using horizontal tabs, since I want to see everything. So, yeah, by default - yes by default - Zen Browser offers vertical tabs.

- I don't own a Macbook or a Mac, but I always wanted to try out Arc Browser. So, uh, Zen Browser, is something like Arc Browser. Any feature of Arc Browser you name, and you have it in Zen Browser.

- Zen Browser is a fork of Firefox - a privacy focused one, yet, has modified UX, beautiful icons, and is just like....like I want it.

Here is the hugest reason I switched from Waterfox (and else Firefox or Firefox fork) to Zen Browser:

- Web pages speed.

As you know, in Firefox, webpages are taking a good amount of time to load. However, in Chromium browsers (like Vivaldi) , same websites are loading much faster, way, way much faster.

Soooo, what if, Firefox, while remaining a privacy-focused amazing browser, had a speed for websites as if it were a Chromium browser?

What if Firefox was fast as Chrome?

Zen Browser is the answer to that question.

Because it is fast as hell.

I know, by this time of reading that post, you are really skeptic now: "Is that browser open-source?" you ask. My answer? It is! The source code is available on GitHub.

Yes, Linux, Windows, and macOS supported.

I've seen a good amount of people making videos about this browser, so I decided to give it a try :-)

Which means I am more likely to discontinue using Waterfox.

Next, I no longer use Vivaldi. Today I switched to @brave instead.

What's that? Why are you staring me like this?

Don't tell me. I know what you gonna tell me. You don't have to tell me everything; I am absolutely aware of what will you tell me.

I don't trust Brave Browser either. In fact, that browser is quite suspicious to me and I, uh, dislike it.

Then why did I switched to it from Vivaldi?

Adblocking and trackerblocking is Brave's main focus. Brave, is, uh, "the best" when it comes to privacy. At least I've been told so......from Brave's website.

Before you tell me anything - yes, personally, I do believe Firefox (now Zen Browser in this case) is better. Yet, I, as a sort-of "backup", use Chromium browsers as well, if a Firefox browser will crash or will not react.

One more reason that I've done that double switch from Waterfox to Zen Browser and from Vivaldi to Brave Browser:

Vertical tabs. Yeah, I repeating myself, I know.

You see, I dunno what about you, but me personally, I want to see all tabs at once. And that's why I've done the switch.

I see you wanting to ask: "But why did you made the switch? You can have vertical tabs in Vivaldi and Waterfox too?....."

Truth to be told, it is. But I have some issues with these "vertical tabs".

Before I'll continue, please note that I run Linux Mint, 20.3, Cinnamon edition, on my Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 90z.

Alright.

Vivaldi's vertical tabs (second screenshot) aren't bad. However, at some time, the "+" button under tabs stopped to appear, which confused me at the time. Checking now, seems to be having bug fixed.........

I was about to use the bug as an excuse to use Brave's vertical tabs instead...maybe it was due to my OS....well, at least I said it previously that because of Brave's focus on adblocking and privacy, I'll switch to it. Yeah, sometimes ads do display in both Waterfox and Vivaldi, and yes, yes, and yes, I do, I DO have uBlock Origin and others well-recommended extensions installed. However, due to YouTube fight with adblockers, even they don't help, while Brave does blocks YouTube's blocker of adblockers.

My main browser will be Zen Browser now (which before was Waterfox) and my second browser will be Brave (which before was Vivaldi).

I am not saying that these browsers are perfect or so whatever, I am just trying them out. If I'll dislike either of these, I'll switch back.

Links:

To try out Zen Browser (with link to GitHub): zen-browser.app

To try, uh, Brave......brave.com

*P.S. I plan to switch from Linux Mint to Arc Linux.*

*P.S.2. BTW, I didn't wanted to switch to Brave until I watched @distrotube 's one of the latest videos about why use Brave. Same about Arc Linux: his 1 year video helped me to understand the difference between Mint and Arc.*

#ZenBrowser#zen#brave

I love it so much!

Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.

Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)

You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)

Fancy that.

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/s

support.mozilla.org Switching from Chrome to Firefox | Firefox Help Firefox can automatically move bookmarks, passwords, history and other preferences from Chrome without deleting it or interfering with any of its settings.

This is disappointing: #Firefox 128 more or less silently enables a new (aggregate) advertisement tracking feature:

> Websites that show you ads can ask Firefox to remember these ads.

It's not that I feel this technique is per se unacceptable. But as an #umatrix #ublock #cookie autodelete poweruser I'd love to get a notification before enabling this.

The heck: Even Google in Android shows a full screen confirmation dialog before enabling a similar thing!

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/p

support.mozilla.org Privacy-Preserving Attribution | Firefox Help Firefox 128 introduces privacy-preserving attribution, allowing advertisers to measure campaign performance while protecting user privacy.

#YouTube has completely stopped working for me. And of course, I know why: I block ads like I'm Ben Wallace

It's ok, because I never really got addicted to YouTube.

But I will say I would use YT videos to teach. I'd usually run them on #Firefox with #uBlock because who wants class time being given over to shitty ads?

But now, if it refuses to work without ad blocking, I won't use it in teaching. it's that simple. I'm not paid to show ads while I teach.

#Chromium (and #Chrome) begins phasing-out Manifest v2.

blog.chromium.org/2024/05/mani

This means, among other things, that uBlock Origin is about to be disabled in Chrome. Google will choose a different extension to recommend but it can not be as effective as #uBlock Origin.

Following #Google's example, may I instead recommend you switch to #Firefox.

Firefox will continue to support Manifest v2, and consequently uBlock Origin and other extensions that can not be implemented with Manifest v3.

Happy browsing.

Chromium BlogManifest V2 phase-out begins In November 2023, we shared a timeline for the phasing out of Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome. Based on the progress and feedback we...

Online-Tools zur Messung der Wirksamkeit von Ad-Blockern sind leider wenig praxistauglich und liefern in Kombination mit Browser-Add-ons oft irreführende Ergebnisse. Am besten verzichtet man auf sie und verlinkt sie auch nicht, da gerade Anfänger/Einsteiger davon irritiert werden könnten. Empfehlt stattdessen die Installation von uBlock Origin und anderen zuverlässigen Ad-Block-Lösungen. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/irrefuehrende-e

kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke

Kuketz IT-Security BlogIrreführende Ergebnisse: Online-Tools zur Messung der Wirksamkeit von Ad-Blockern
#werbung#tracking#ublock