inari comments on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (www.pcworld.com)

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[–] inari@piefed.zip [S] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The web is funded by advertising, and adblockers undermine it, that's why. Fuck advertising though

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I do have pihole setup on the whole house, but still, god damn. I hope they won’t drop support for it.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 15 points 1 month ago

uBO can block things that DNS-based blocking can't block. Some sites serve their ads from the same domain as the rest of their content, and some sites need custom JavaScript to block the ads.

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