Many iOS workarounds. I’m using Vinegar extension and also the newly released uBlock Origin for iOS. Chefs kiss
kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Stop using Adblock Plus and start using Firefox with uBlock Origin.
If you’re on iOS, swallow your pride and install Brave and just turn off the crypto features. You’ll thank me later.
Zubby@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Where do you get ublock for ios? Its not mentioned on github or on the site
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
You could just use plain vinegar.
Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So my parents use chrome even though I constantly install Firefox and hide chrome. Problem there is they end up with Edge so I stopped doing that. (Didn’t windows get in trouble for this kind of market control in the 90’s?)
So I had Ublock origin on chrome for them but it’s “not supported” anymore and my usual method of ignoring what it says and turning it back on are now failing.
Any help?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
If they are technically inept, reduce their accounts to limited and lock down the admin account. That will prevent them from installing Chrome, and if the admin sets a shortcut on their desktop/s, they won’t be able to remove it. Install the necessary extensions, then change the desktop icon and text to “Chrome”.
Problem solved.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
change FF desktop icon and text to “Chrome”
The new incognito mode?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can disable Edge if you don’t want people launching it… “accidentally.” There are a myriad of ways. Most recently I’ve used Edge Blocker, which does what it says on the label. Note that this will cause the opening of any file types associated with Edge by default to silently fail if you don’t reassign them to some other program.
The install Firefox and uBlock origin. Unless your parents deliberately go out of their way to download and install Chrome (and depending how heavy-handed you want to get you could even prevent this by busting them down to a limited user account) they won’t have any choice but to use the correct browser installed on their system. That is to say, the only one.
Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh my. THANK YOU for that edgeblocker! Going to get that on every computer in my home.
Yeah I’m not “the boss” of my parents. My dad was very tech savvy, but he doesn’t have the same memory and cognition as he used to so when I set it up nice he likes it, but any friction sets him off to “solve” the problem… By doing some random totally different thing that doesn’t so much solve the problem as “gets it working, sort of” with a browser he recognizes. Then because there are ads he loses interest and just puts on the 24/7 news cycle. :(
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
On the off chance that you have not heard that Linux is way more user friendly now, I recommend switching over. Especially if you are able to update the computer frequently.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Beside a big whack behind the head, Ublock Origin Lite is supported on chrome. You lose some features, and it is slower to update, but should still mostly work. Unfortunately, the youtube/ublock fight move quite fast, so results won’t be as good on that front.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 month ago
Change default browser to Firefox
Change file type associations
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Setup a firewall and black access to websites where they’re able to download other browsers. Then change the icon for Firefox to Chrome’s icon. For bonus points, you can probably find a firefox theme to make it look more like chrome.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or if they just really don’t like Firefox for some reason they could look into trying Cromite. It has worked pretty well for me and actually does better at blocked ads on sites like adblock-test.pages.dev Than Firefox with uBlock origin does.
I added a user script to clear some of the URL trackers just in case I copy links anywhere as it like opera doesn’t use extensions up front.
But on sites like that Firefox w/uBlock with score a 90 for me unless my Pihole is running, and Cromite will score 100 without it. Opera a 75, but I do like Operas interface on Android a lot.
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Fyi uBlock Origin Lite was recently released on iOS
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
AdGuard and SponsorBlock work fine on Safari on iOS.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Stop using youtube and start using peertube. WE DONT FUCKING NEED GOOGLE!
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unless you make extremely popular video with hundred thousands views in the first day, in which case, yeah, good luck with peertube.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
That does not apply to most people. Also, peertube is really getting better recently.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes even meta noticed that the qualityof videos on peertube is increased, they’re illegally scraping all the content for training their closed source for-profit ai video generator
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not a matter of “getting better”. It’s a matter of having the bandwidth. You can’t serve a video to ten of thousands of people from one or two servers. And you can’t do it with P2P at that scale either. There’s nothing technical to do about that; it’s basically a physic limitation. To address that you’d have to publish your video in dozens or hundreds of servers beforehand, and the system have to handle load balancing and source lookup efficiently. Basically, work as a full CDN. And that’s expensive to do. The reason youtube can do that is not that they have wonderful, almost magical software running on their servers, it’s that they have a lot of them.
And, sure, it doesn’t apply to most people. Which is irrelevant; most people are not what are driving the masses. One large enough youtuber going peertube would give it more visibility than thousands of individual people. That’s the reason people are still using youtube; because people go where the content they want is.