uBlock Origin got forever disabled in Chrome due to the browser's transition to MV3. What does it mean for the extension's many users and what are the alternatives?
That browser is my main driver, but it’s out of the box settings makes it a bad choice for regular users in my opinion. Although knowing the usual crowd on Lemmy a lot of power users lurk around here.
only tangentially related but, what’s the cutoff for power users y’reckon? like i still feel like i don’t know what i’m doing, but i also recently did a bunch of troubleshooting on a new distro install without outside help.
is there a difference between power users and stubborn people who are just willing to trial-and-error their problems away until they understand it? lmao
is there a difference between power users and stubborn people who are just willing to trial-and-error their problems away until they understand it? lmao
IMO you just described the process of becoming a power user.
In my mind power users are, roughly, people who want to use technology the way they want to and are willing to deal with the headaches that come with it. For example your description of you would put you into the group of power users.
Power users tend to know what they’re doing but we all have to start from knowing nothing. Hell I’m still learning new things and I’ve been doing this shit basically my whole life.
which ootb setting would a regular user realistically need to change? i was actually happy to not have to do anything i’d normally do when installing a new browser
Spoofing the timezone is one that comes to mind. I noticed all the times on websites were off by a significant amount, and that is something that will confuse a regular user. I thought something was wrong until I remembered that LibreWolf tries to hide locale info as much as possible.
I get why you’d be okay with history being locally saved, but saving cookies is a slippery slope. It’s very hard to know exactly what’s being recorded on you, even on a privacy-focused browser
As soon as you log in and then allow a website to auto login on your computer, you just give up any anonymity you had towards that website
I do block all third party cookies/known tracking cookies, so it’s not totally open. But you’re right. It’s just that in my case that’s a compromise I’m alright with for general internet use.
you can easily disable the deletion of cookies on a site-by-site basis from the address bar. turns out there’s only a handful sites i visit where setting an exception is necessary, so i rather appreciate this feature.
i like having access to my browsing history though, so that one I’ve indeed turned off
The anti-canvas fingerprinting that replaces all canvases (or whatever it is, usually dynamicly drawn stuff) with rainbow square does break a lot of stuff. It used to break even pasting of images to messenger.
Use LibreWolf. Security and privacy enhanced Firefox. Also comes with uBlock origin installed.
https://librewolf.net/
That browser is my main driver, but it’s out of the box settings makes it a bad choice for regular users in my opinion. Although knowing the usual crowd on Lemmy a lot of power users lurk around here.
only tangentially related but, what’s the cutoff for power users y’reckon? like i still feel like i don’t know what i’m doing, but i also recently did a bunch of troubleshooting on a new distro install without outside help.
is there a difference between power users and stubborn people who are just willing to trial-and-error their problems away until they understand it? lmao
IMO you just described the process of becoming a power user.
In my mind power users are, roughly, people who want to use technology the way they want to and are willing to deal with the headaches that come with it. For example your description of you would put you into the group of power users.
Power users tend to know what they’re doing but we all have to start from knowing nothing. Hell I’m still learning new things and I’ve been doing this shit basically my whole life.
which ootb setting would a regular user realistically need to change? i was actually happy to not have to do anything i’d normally do when installing a new browser
Spoofing the timezone is one that comes to mind. I noticed all the times on websites were off by a significant amount, and that is something that will confuse a regular user. I thought something was wrong until I remembered that LibreWolf tries to hide locale info as much as possible.
I find deleting history and cookies every time I close the browser to be an unnecessary annoyance. You can easily change it, though.
I get why you’d be okay with history being locally saved, but saving cookies is a slippery slope. It’s very hard to know exactly what’s being recorded on you, even on a privacy-focused browser
As soon as you log in and then allow a website to auto login on your computer, you just give up any anonymity you had towards that website
I do block all third party cookies/known tracking cookies, so it’s not totally open. But you’re right. It’s just that in my case that’s a compromise I’m alright with for general internet use.
you can easily disable the deletion of cookies on a site-by-site basis from the address bar. turns out there’s only a handful sites i visit where setting an exception is necessary, so i rather appreciate this feature.
i like having access to my browsing history though, so that one I’ve indeed turned off
I was unaware of that, thanks. I might try that.
The anti-canvas fingerprinting that replaces all canvases (or whatever it is, usually dynamicly drawn stuff) with rainbow square does break a lot of stuff. It used to break even pasting of images to messenger.
This is the only correct answer. Firefox is enshitifying fast, chromium is simply cancer