[totetsu]

uBo is the only reason I find browsing the web at all tolerable anymore. As a test I turned it off to view this article and almost crashed my browser with a dozen auto play video ads This would mean I would find the energy to get over anything that is holding me on chrome, like saved passwords etc.

[matheusmoreira]

Agree. The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin. It should be a standard browser feature at this point, like popup blockers.

[raffael_de]

I personally consider uBlock Origin as an Internet infrastructure component. I have no ... _no_ idea whatsoever how some people use the Internet without it.

[anonymousiam]

In addition to uBlock Origin, I also have a few piholes (two locations), and I use NoScript as well. It's nice to have multiple layers of defense.

[riffraff]

it _is_ a browser feature for e.g. brave, vivaldi and (experimental, afair) firefox.

Popup blockers were also a differentiator, once.

[eloisant]

The difference is that the biggest popup offender was not the same company behind the browser everyone uses...

Just imagine if Netscape and MS made all their money from popups at the time.

[UltraSane]

You are 100% correct and if uBlock Origin didn't exist I would dedicate my life to creating it.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

It's quite possible that we're just not meant to view the web. Those companies that even maintain websites might intend for us to really view things on their phone app. The garbage you see on the website is then not just some parasitic draining of your spiritual health, but a disincentive designed to convince you to stop using the web altogether.

[gblargg]

Like Home Depot not showing the item location in store from the website, only the app.

[sseagull]

I only use the Home Depot website, and it shows the location for me. Maybe it’s regional or something

[EasyMark]

Yeah not sure what they're talking about, that's how I do it too

[gblargg]

I just tested and apparently their site is extremely flaky. I tried for several minutes to get info but nothing except one time (changing store location, refreshing). Then it started working fine for a while, updating when I changed location. I cleared cookies out each time and that didn't cause/fix it. So it's not intentional to push you to the app, just a shit site (not just because of this issue, but its extreme slowness on mobile).

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

It doesn't have to be a deliberate decision by upper management with the express purpose of pushing you towards the app. That's quite unlikely, some flunky would have anonymously published the email or memo dictating that policy were it so.

But in the same way that an individual human might do something with a subconscious purpose and plausibly claim they weren't aware that's why they were doing the thing, so too can a organized group of people do something when it suits their collective purpose. The group drifts into a behavior which is advantageous, someone in upper management is pleased with it even though the drift wasn't steered, and encourages more of the same. As that process iterates, it becomes clear why they go in that direction all without some Senior VP telling everyone at a department-wide meeting to go in that direction.

[fuckinpuppers]

Likely just terrible Indian outsourced development. Fetches the data via XHR, but hits a service that is flaky because of 5 years of A/B crap messing with it. Poor management, bad business stakeholders and crap developers. Welcome to the enterprise

[nolist_policy]

uBlock Origin Lite with MV3 works perfectly fine on Chrome. I don't notice a difference to the classic uBlock Origin, it even has a element zapper nowadays.

[tyingq]

It will work fine until Google and others stomp out all easy paths to smart, heuristic based ad blockers.

The ad folks don't work around ubo lite now, because they understand it drives people to ubo actual.

Once that option is not really reasonable for anybody not highly technical... That's when the fun begins.

[Catloafdev]

Firefox thankfully offers sync and imports your Chrome data.

Makes switching easy.