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by exceptione 29 days ago
For those not aware, the article assumes you are stuck in Google Chrome. Ublock works correctly in Firefox and derivatives, I advise you to use that instead to end the suffering.

If you find yourself in a "only Internet Explorer 5.5 is supported" situation, you could perhaps use Ungoogled Chromium and manually install Ublock Origin to buy yourself time to get out of that dead lock.

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I use FF and uBO (which has always worked better on FF than on the adtech browser), but I'd love uMatrix back. The interface of uBO is a typical mobile friendly simplification. As the article says, uBO can do everything if you are willing to write rules by hand. And missing is that the equivalent in uMatrix was a single click. Simply a huge step back in UX, and while I dropped uM eventually as the lack of maintenance resulted in incompatibilities, I'm now permitting far more connections than before as anything else would require too much work when I want to actually browse the web.
Outside of "Cast" to Google Devices, what is any benefit in Chrome?

Firefox works fine now, I don't think I've had those memory issues that used to plague it in forever!

If you use a browser by a company that earns most of its revenue by selling ads and wonder why the ad-blocker is not working I may have a bridge to sell to you.