Comment on Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing

• Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. This only applies to the mobile app
  2. They stopped doing this in 2022
  3. LibreWolf comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, which blocks all sorts of ads, trackers and other malicious JavaScript

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  • Pantherina@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ublock Origin does not black “malicious Javascript” reliably. You need NoScript for that, and a opt-in approach. Block everything, unblock what you need, hope its not malicious.

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    • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      uBO can be set up to block all JS by default, allowing you to manually whitelist each script. github.com/gorhill/…/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode

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    • graeghos_714@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also run disabling addons for java script and flash as well as an overlay remover in Firefox

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      • Pantherina@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Flash should be possible to disable about:config as its legacy technology.

        Could you explain the overlay remover?

        Noscript is the only good addon for blocking javascript and allowing only some parts for specific origins.

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    • Dnn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While I actually do that, you cannot seriously recommend it to anyone. Hardly any site works without Javascript nowadays.

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      • Pantherina@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes thats why you have the button to click on. I also need to allowlist basically every site I visit.

        There should be some way to share such a list, to reduce the manual work.

        I highly recommend manually enabling Javascript.

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  • spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Suggest a better alternative then. Startpage, Mullvad Leta and Whoogle are just Google proxies (and Whoogle is pretty unreliable), SearX, SearXNG and 4get are also just proxies for multiple search engines. There are no good independent search engiens, Brave Search sucks because it’s made by Brave, a company notorious for pushing weird NFT and Blockchain shit, Mojeek has pretty bad search results and Kagi requires an account, and only allows 40 searches per month.

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      • spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        SearX, SearXNG and 4get are also just proxies for multiple search engines

        And DDG is just a proxy for Bing following that logic. I’d choose those three over DDG.

        Kagi requires an account, and only allows 100 searches

        Making a new account every 100 searches should be an option (albeit a somewhat tedious one), no?

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      • Mojeek@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        sorry to hear that; if you are using us any point in the future and want to flag this, we have a “submit feedback” button on pages, this is a really useful thing to do for us, as it helps us to identify results which are not so good :D

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      • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        >Brave, a company notorious for pushing weird NFT and Blockchain shit,

        what nft shit?

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  • joe_jowhat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have nothing to do with Librewolf at all. Don’t confuse the two. I just said what Duckduckgo did with trackers based on a search agreement with Microsoft. BTW, this issue was initially exposed by others, not Duckduckgo itself.

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