Google just blocked my ad-block plugins. 

F-ers .

Wed Sep 13 2023 16:39:00 EDT from Nurb432

Google just blocked my ad-block plugins.

Do you mean you cannot install them? What browser are you using?

Yeah, it's not like you'd be giving up a search engine that actually works - no such thing in [CURRENT YEAR]. And for everything else there are equal or superior options, some free and/or self-hostable with little effort.

Sorry, i should have specified google chrome. Not google search.   

I worked around it, and enabled YT blocking in another, but wonder how long before they declare that one bad and yank it too. 

Wed Sep 13 2023 21:43:22 EDT from nonservator

Yeah, it's not like you'd be giving up a search engine that actually works - no such thing in [CURRENT YEAR]. And for everything else there are equal or superior options, some free and/or self-hostable with little effort.

Yeah, no good search engines and no good web browsers.

I forget where the discussion was about Tucker Carlson and whether he was visible on Rumble, but if you go to https://rumble.com/c/TuckerCarlsonOfficial now, you get "410 - Gone". Same for TuckerCarlsonTonight. The account "TuckerCarlsonTonightTheFiveJesseWattersPrimetimeGutfeldUnfilteredwithDanBongino" doesn't look very legit, especially with that ugly AI-looking profile picture.

PS: Sorry for ruining the fact that as I post this, Google Overlords has 666 messages. Although Ig might have hardcoded that just for fun.

Grrrr

Thu Sep 14 2023 14:46:20 EDT from nonservator

I forget where the discussion was about Tucker Carlson and whether he was visible on Rumble, but if you go to https://rumble.com/c/TuckerCarlsonOfficial now, you get "410 - Gone". 

Guess i'm done with chrome.  They are blocking and removing one by one any ad blocker from the store.

Is there a 3rd party store for chrome plugins like there is for android apps that they dont like?  Not searched for one yet just thought id ask.

OH and they just killed off zlibrary link finder

Grrrrrr

Ever heard of Pale Moon?

Ya home machine. But, one ad-block still works. One of the older ones. Its working.

And it seems was only 60% correct:

• Removed from store
• Disabled in browser but NOT actually removed. you can turn it back on if you want. i misinterpreted the message.

Mon Sep 25 2023 21:50:11 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I am assuming this is not your work machine, since you had the option of installing an ad blocker before.

Just don't bother with the Google build of Chrome at all. You should be running Brave. It has a very good ad blocker built in. And I suppose you could also be running an ad blocking proxy if that's more convenient for you.

Isn't that an Anime character? 

Mon Sep 25 2023 22:29:08 EDT from msgrhys

Ever heard of Pale Moon?

Pale Moon is the browser I use. It started as a rebuild and then fork of Firefox but has diverged significantly since. Its developers didn't like the direction Firefox was going. In particular they wanted to maintain support for XUL-based add-ons rather than implement Google's WebExtensions. I originally used it because it ran better on my older hardware, but its "old" interface has grown on me and I now use it on all my machines.

Like hardware and operating systems in the 80's before PC monoculture razed the landscape, the World Wide Web used to be a lot more diverse. Alanis levels of irony are seen in the hindsight that shows us the web was far healthier at the height of Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominance than in [CURRENT YEAR] where El Goog and its countless Chromium-based offspring rule the roost. Anyone else remember OffByOne?

https://archive.org/details/offbyone-evolt_browsers

"The Off By One Web Browser may be the world's smallest and fastest Web Browser with full HTML 3.2 support. It is a completely self-contained, stand-alone 1.1MB application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component. For Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT and Windows 2000." No SSL or JavaScript support.

Or the original Opera that was truly its own unique engine and browser, beloved by many until it was hollowed out and turned into yet another Chromium skinsuit.

Now the nest is overflowing with shit, and yet only a few dare try to take wing and fly away. Since none of the right people have the level of financial resources required, we're forced to rely on the handful with sufficiently weapons-grade autism to offer an alternative. Like Ladybird from the SerenityOS guy, where the browser is just another aspect of an entirely new OS. Me, if I had money or autism to throw at the problem I'd split it between a brand-new ground-up engine, and a fork of Lynx to bring it as truly up to par with the current web as possible - maybe easier if PhantomJS were resurrected and updated?

Many will disagree, but i think the downfall started with client side processing.

Only so many people had the resources needed to manage engines that could support it.  And i think things ' changed '. The web was not the same

If client side processing never became a thing, I would be able to throw something like NetBSD on a 30 year old machine and get by just fine.

And I say this as a 20 year old.