So now that Ublock is dead, what do?

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Agreed. Also DeGoogled as much as I can for now, and working towards total annihilation. In the same bucket as Meta/Bookface for me now. I.e Dead.
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Trying to do this same thing myself. It's astounding how embedded you can become into the big tech ecosystems without realising the creep that happens over the years.
 
I made the switch to Firefox this week due to the same reason, it was pretty quick to just transfer everything across. It feels exactly the same as chrome.

Good riddance Google.
 
Had been using Brave over the last few years because of it's finger-print protection. However I have this last year switched to Librewolf (fork of Firefox). It works with Firefox Sync so I can use on my phone.

Before Chrome came along I was a Mozilla/Firefox user so it made sense to move back and support a more open standard. There are some other browsers based on Firefox like Mullvid; which is meant to rival Brave on security tests passed, Arkenfox; FF configuration file, which I should look at, but I've been very impressed with Librewolf.

Beyond that I did watch a presentation on Youtube by a chap called Andres Kling from a couple of months ago about a new open-source browser he is leading called ladybird. I don't know what, if anything it becomes, but there was a lot to like from the talk ranging from the aims, how they will be funded etc.
 
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Personally disabled updates on chrome a while back and use a mixture of that and FF both with UblockO

But, if you are using company systems/laptops expect them to tighten down on browser software on their hardware -
USA based hi-tech, anyway, for last 15odd years you can only install software blessed&monitored by IT dept, and for UK with incursions into likes of nhs/marks/national-library I'd expect them to soon follow suit,
even if phishing has been biggest liability.
 
i have jumped to the free version of total ad block , working great tbh and limited nag screens ,one popped up last night with the paid version price but that was it
 
Ublock is still available on Firefox but might not be suitable for those heavily invested on Chrome.

AdGuard Family Plan Lifetime Subscription can be had for $40 for those inereested.
 
Some excellent responses, thanks chaps and chappetes (and any Jekka Gals).

Think this might be the shove I need to get rid of all this tracking nonsense as much as I can. I'm far too comfy relying on Google for stuff and the amount of very blatant listening and ad pushing I see from Facebook and whatnot is creepy as hell.

The biggest thing I'll need to figure out is Google Photos. Being able to take photos out and about at work and have them instantly on my browser when I get back to my desk is extremely convenient.

I'll probably give Proton Mail a shot too. This is obviously going to be a rather extended process given how embedded I am in all these data harvesting sites.

This does make me wonder how much traffic and data Google is going to lose by cutting off adblockers.
 
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Diddums x said:
This does make me wonder how much traffic and data Google is going to lose by cutting off adblockers.
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Not a lot really. They'll still be able to monitor you via your phone, and despite the Cookie laws they will still be able to track your movements online.

Meta were recently found to be doing similar via passing local data on the phone to the pre-installed versions of Facebook and Instagram, which then sent it to their servers - even if you didn't have an account. Source

he discovered Meta's apps, including Facebook and Instagram, and Yandex's apps, such as Yandex Maps, were sitting in the background of Android devices and loading a script that sent data locally back to apps on users' phones.

The scripts bypassed Android's security measures and meant that Meta and Yandex could track what users were doing on web browsers, without the user consenting or even knowing, according to the expert.

The apps were able to track users' browser data on all major Android browsers, even if the user was in incognito mode, the academics said.[/quote
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Not a lot really. They'll still be able to monitor you via your phone, and despite the Cookie laws they will still be able to track your movements online.

Meta were recently found to be doing similar via passing local data on the phone to the pre-installed versions of Instagram, which then sent it to their servers - even if you didn't have an account. Source
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It's absolutely insane that this is even allowed tbh.
 
But why care? At this point the effort to be a ghost online far outweighs the day to day convenience of using a load of cloud based stuff and products/services. I just use ad blockers and vpn when I really care, otherwise they can have my search history and push ads all they want. Doesn't really affect my life.
 
I switched to the Lite version and haven't noticed much difference so far but also run a Pihole at home. Ideally I'd switch to Firefox, but need to get around to actually doing it as I've gotten so used to Chrome over the years.
 
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