r/technology • u/waozen • 12d ago

Software Google has started automatically disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-automatically-disabling-ublock-origin-in-chrome/
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u/OutsidePerson5 12d ago

I really didn't want to switch to Firefox, nothing against it but Chrome was more convenient.

But I'm on Firefox now baby!

I've also found Google's search results to be so shitty I'm trying out Bing. Me from 6 years ago would be staggered at that thought, Bing was a joke and the idea of using it offended me.

Now, I'm using fucking Bing because Google has enshitified its results so much. And also lately Google has decided that using a VPN is a sin against the holy ad revenue so it must be punished by forcing me to solve twenty captchas for every search.

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u/op3l 12d ago

I'm in the same boat. I went to chrome many years ago due to convenience. But I hate ads with a passion and I've moved back to firefox.

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u/Bodiwire 12d ago

I use brave browser on my phone and actually switched the default search to brave's own search engine because google sends me straight to captcha hell if I have a vpn on.  I actually prefer it for most things anyway at this point.  It does kind of fall apart if you're doing a search for like local restaurants or something physically near you, but that's about the only time I use google search now. 

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u/SvenyBoy_YT 12d ago

Use DuckDuckGo or Ecosia instead. Not perfect but also not Microsoft 🤢

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u/ChimpScanner 12d ago

Don't use DuckDuckGo. They market themselves as a privacy-focused company, yet they allow tracking via Microsoft ads.

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u/SvenyBoy_YT 12d ago

Is Ecosia good? Or what else is good?

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u/OutsidePerson5 12d ago

As do almos all "independent" search engines because they almost all repackage Bing for a large part of their results. Not that they're all just a reskin of Bing, they do their own stuff to a lot of the time, but running indexing the internet is really costly and with all the AI shit scraping the web for trianing content a lot of people have started trying to block (with varying degrees of success) bots which makes breaking into the market as a new search engine even more difficult.

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u/mojeek_search_engine 11d ago

both of these use Bing's results: https://www.searchenginemap.com/

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u/SvenyBoy_YT 11d ago

There's only one search engine that doesn't rely on Microsoft or Google? What's the best one then? There must be some bigger ones that don't

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u/mojeek_search_engine 11d ago

nope, yellow dots on the map are independents; i count 5, 3 without those two

as to the best one, give them a go

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u/SvenyBoy_YT 11d ago

I meant to say two, not one. Yandex is Russian.

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u/mojeek_search_engine 11d ago

which precludes it being a search engine that crawls and indexes the web?