• Kokesh
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    587 days ago
    • Chrome is no longer available in my phone, computer,…
    • FundMECFS
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      37 days ago

      Is there any firefox based browser on android where I can have easy gestures for the arrow buttons? All the firefox versions I can find require me to do this in two clicks which for the way I browse is a pain in the arse. Can I fix this somehow?

      • toiletobserver
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        17 days ago

        Unknown, i can use gestures on my phone which work in Firefox. Maybe it’s is a phone problem.

      • @Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        I haven’t tried it, but Iceraven has a lot of extensions available compared to Firefox. Maybe there is one to do exactly what you need?

      • @hunt4peas@lemmy.ml
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        26 days ago

        Edge extension store still has it I think. Use it until Edge removes it as well. Then tell the IT to use Firefox highlighting the importance of adblocking.

        • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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          26 days ago

          I don’t like my chances of swaying IT. The organisation is too big and I’ll get told I should be using Edge which is the only officially supported browser.

        • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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          337 days ago

          Officially only Edge is supported, but Chrome is tolerated. It’s a full MS environment.

        • @takeda@lemm.ee
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          687 days ago

          Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

          When I was working for an ad exchange, everyone had adblock installed in their browsers, I found that quite ironic.

          • @micka190@lemmy.world
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            67 days ago

            Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

            My IT department uninstalled it from my work laptop, and told me not to reinstall it because - and I quote: “The only browser IT officially supports is Google Chrome.”

            What makes this doubly stupid is that I’m a web developer. I literally can’t test my stuff on another browser…

          • @Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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            617 days ago

            I would argue it’s a security issue not to have any ad blocking. Many scams online start with popups or fake ads.

            So if you get the opportunity to talk to IT that’s what I would mention.

          • @shyguyblue@lemmy.world
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            57 days ago

            I used to develop ads (non intrusive things for home depot or go RVing) and i used ad blockers. When testing, i would just run private browsing with plugins disabled…

        • Snot Flickerman
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          397 days ago

          At large organizations you’re generally not allowed to download much of anything without it passing through IT security and management first. If it’s a no, it will probably stay a no.

          • @slumberlust@lemmy.world
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            16 days ago

            In your experience, what large organization restricts this? I’ve worked at a few SaaS companies and a FAANG that always gave us full install rights and browser choice. Granted we are on the software side, but I haven’t experienced this at all.

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              Just to be clear, I mean it’s literally managed at the Group Policy level (in Windows server environments at least) and no amount of asking will suddenly give your user account permissions to be able to save files of any kind.

              You generally literally cannot download it without going through IT to get them to approve of and give your account access first.

              • @datavoid@lemmy.ml
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                27 days ago

                Ya I forgot I have escalated device privileges and an admin account, which I definitely would have used for installing anything. Although I believe I can also skirt the rules using winget on a user account. That will probably get you in trouble however!

          • @Flagstaff@programming.dev
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            127 days ago

            I work for a non-profit and they are way more lenient about what we would like to install as long as the job gets done.

            • skulblaka
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              57 days ago

              Then you have bad opsec and security holes.

              This matters more for some industries than others. But this attitude lets a malicious employee install basically whatever they want in service of “the job” and you won’t even know you’re being breached until after it’s all over.

              • @Flagstaff@programming.dev
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                26 days ago

                Well, we still have to get approval. But it just seems like they don’t mind as much. For example, I don’t know how many companies out there would be fine with installations of AutoHotkey and LibreOffice.

      • @dirthawker0@lemmy.world
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        If you had uBlock origin already, you may have gotten a message through Chrome that it was no longer supported, so it’s been disabled, and gives you the option to remove it. I noticed you don’t have to remove it, and it can be re-enabled. However, I need someone smarter with adblockers than I to say if this is actually helpful and not hazardous.

        • @Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          People are saying manifest v2 (the old API that ublock uses) will be gone soon, which I think should effectively make ublock unusable whatever you do unless you stop updating chrome maybe (which could open you up to a ton of security issues) ? Not sure, don’t care since I’ve ditched chrome long ago

    • Ulrich
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      47 days ago

      I just downloaded the Kagi Orion browser and I can install extensions from both Chrome and Firefox web stores!

  • FreddyNO
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    187 days ago

    Didn’t consider chrome before and still wont

  • @aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    67 days ago

    It’s funny how things work out. I had a Chromebook that couldn’t have Firefox installed. I heard that Chrome would remove ubo, my Chromebook died the following month. So I got a cheap laptop instead. The problem solved itself.

    • Victor
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      16 days ago

      I wish I could say the same. Web dev. 🫡 But at least I’m using Chromium, if that’s even slightly better.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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      57 days ago

      I only use chrome for my work stuff, and that’s because I work with g-suite a lot.

      Chrome fucking sucks

  • @Jimius@lemmy.ml
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    1177 days ago

    if ads were normal and unobtrusive. We wouldn’t need ad blockers. Instead we get an almost unusable internet where ads take up more and more real estate. I had been running an ad blocker for so many years that when a friend (who doesn’t use an ad blocker) showed me a website, the unfiltered experience was horrifying.

    • partial_accumen
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      127 days ago

      Instead we get an almost unusable internet where ads take up more and more real estate.

      Its even worse than just hurting usability. Lots of ad networks are not policing their advertising customers and malicious payloads have been injected from ads. So allowing ads is a security risk because of the lack of security at the various ad networks.

      • @TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com
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        47 days ago

        It’s even worse when you consider the entire point of advertising is to deliver a targeted payload at a very specific demographic. So you can target IT folks of a specific company, etc.

    • @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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      57 days ago

      I went to help out a friend, a few years ago, he runs vanilla Edge, I can’t believe anyone actually uses the internet like that.

    • @padge@lemmy.zip
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      47 days ago

      I’d be okay with sites showing me unintrusive non targeted ads, but since it’s all or nothing I choose nothing.

    • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦
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      I was about to comment something similar but you said it before I did. Sometimes I’ll mistakenly open YouTube with Chrome and then I realize I messed up because I have to sit through three, sometimes one-minute long ads just to watch a twenty second video. I’ll typically just nope out and switch to Firefox. The worst thing is they’re unskippable and I swear for some of them the ad actually pauses if you switch to another tab or browser. I’m getting ads even on super old videos so I’m pretty sure it isn’t all to do with the channels themselves monetizing their videos.

      • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        3 one minute long adds are better than those 2 hour long prageru racist propaganda videos trying to masquerade as “Educational” content

    • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      Im old enough to remember the internet before ads, and with ads became a thing and you had to make sure to keep your speakers low/off all the time less some screaming loud ad popped up somewhere to burst your eardrums at 2am.

      There were so many obnoxious, visual cancer ads.

      Then they became actual digital cancer by being injection points for viruses and malware, and thus adblockers became a necessity.

      And they remain a necessity to this day, for the same reason as they were 20+ years ago.

      and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking.

      not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.

      • @PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee
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        and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking. not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.

        This is the American way. You try to shit blame elsewhere so noone puts the onus on you to improve so you can keep a larger portion of the profit. “Fuck you I got mine” should be printed on our money lol

  • @jam_scot@lemmy.world
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    196 days ago

    I switched to Firefox many years ago, after their announcement I switched to Waterfox and I’m very happy with it.

    • @megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      looks like you dropped opera about the same time it rebased to blink (chromium) from their own web engine, presto.

  • TrackinDaKraken
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    37 days ago

    I’ve been on Firefox since I left Internet Explorer many years ago. But, recently, I switched to LibreWolf, and I’ve been checking out Pale Moon. Pale Moon is close to doing everything I want, but not quite there.

  • @adarza@lemmy.ca
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    67 days ago

    i was able to load it in a (not chrome) chromium-based browser without issue, just the notice across the addon’s page.

    the ‘lite’ version is also on there, seems to work ‘ok’. adguard and a few others are also there–they must all be mv3, as only the full ubo has the warning notice on its page of those i checked.

    all the mv3 ones run the risk of having updates rejected or delayed by google, especially if they contain code or filter updates (filters must be packed with the addon in mv3) to combat changes google makes to their own sites. firefox or a trusted customized build or maintained fork is the way to go now.