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Support Firefox. F** Chrome.

Seriously.

The web is completely unusable without UBO+FF. Any time I have to use a clean browser, I feel assaulted and dirty, plus wonder what malware just got injected into my machine.

If it were to go away, I would probably accelerate retiring to an analog, offline life.

I mean did you try with Chrome and Ublock Original Lite? Because I have and there's literally no difference at all.

It's different under the hood. The crux of the difference is the webRequest API which is only available in Manifest v2. This allows uBlock to strip all tracking data from the requests themselves. So while Chrome w uBlock Lite is hiding almost all the same ads from you, it's not protecting you from tracking

The Lite version also relies solely on filter lists that require you to update the extension itself while the MV2 version can do so dynamically. Additionally, it lacks CNAME Uncloaking which I imagine will become much more commonplace soon enough which will make it impossible to block those ads

There is a lot of difference. Try watching Youtube with uBlock Lite for example.

Yes. I see no ads on youtube. Period. None.

I tried a blank Firefox on YouTube the other day for a 20 minute video and it was packed with pre-roll ads and then a mid-roll ad every several minutes. Unwatchable.

> I tried a blank Firefox on YouTube

Wouldnt this be the same experience on all 'blank' browsers? The whole point was install ublock origin extension and that all goes away.

You make it sound like its Firefoxs fault that youtube is full of ads!

You either don't use the f-word at all, or just write the whole word, uncensored. It's not that hard: fuck Chrome.

Fix?

Free Chrome. /s

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