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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 9 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 1.299s | source | bottom
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zulban ◴[13 Jul 25 02:07 UTC] No.44546901[source]▶
I don't "bypass" Chrome when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Firefox. I don't "bypass" Windows when they want to melt my brain with their business model, I use Linux. No idea why so many "hackers" doing "bypasses" can't instead take action that is simpler, long lasting, and easier. Do people need to jerked around 50 times for 20 years before realizing it will keep happening and their "bypasses" are just temporary bandaids?
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1. mumbisChungo ◴[13 Jul 25 03:55 UTC] No.44547355[source]▶
What makes firefox better than brave?
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2. Sunspark ◴[13 Jul 25 04:22 UTC] No.44547479[source]▶
For me, I like being able to set a default font/size/colour for all websites as an override. Chromium browsers don't do that out of the box.

I like that it quarantines most of Facebook's shenanigans with cookies and the like.

I can't compare Brave's adblock to uBlock Origin, but it's probably good enough.

3. vachina ◴[13 Jul 25 06:20 UTC] No.44547958[source]▶
Firefox is not a Chromium fork
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4. Kwpolska ◴[13 Jul 25 07:23 UTC] No.44548225[source]▶
It doesn't do crypto bullshit, for example.
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5. swinglock ◴[13 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44550989[source]▶
It supports keeping long term history so you can find a page you visited years ago from the history search in the address bar. Chrome/Google likes when you have to search for it and Brave has inherited that.
6. esskay ◴[13 Jul 25 15:30 UTC] No.44551112[source]▶
And that makes it better why? Come on, this is pretty low hanging fruit.
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7. esskay ◴[13 Jul 25 15:31 UTC] No.44551123[source]▶
The "crypto bullshit" which is a notice on the start page with an option to permanently remove and turn it off.

I swear people slating Brave here haven't actually even installed it.

Oh and its opensource, not like theres anything hiding in the shadows here, you can go and look at the code behind how its all working for yourself if you're that paranoid.

8. vachina ◴[13 Jul 25 16:33 UTC] No.44551581{3}[source]▶
Because it is an independent codebase free from any design decisions from Google. Chromium derivatives cannot stray far from Google’s interests.
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9. esskay ◴[15 Jul 25 11:42 UTC] No.44570133{4}[source]▶
> Chromium derivatives cannot stray far from Google’s interests.

Says who? It's opensource and has a BSD license, you can literally do whatever you want with it.