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Re:Qutebrowser by porphyra on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:48PM (#26443752)
I switched from Firefox + Chromium to Qutebrowser a few weeks ago. So far it is really nice. Since QtWebengine is Chromium-based and is a relatively recent version of Chromium, it works very well with all sites so far, vastly better than the older QtWebkit version I tried a year ago.

I hope that someone will write a Qutebrowser version of Bypass Paywalls [1].

I also find that the Qutebrowser's ad blocking is a bit underwhelming compared to uBlock Origin, with a lot of ads getting through or being incompletely blocked, although work is being done on that [2].

The password filling scripts are also hit or miss but I just copy my passwords from the terminal using `pass`.

[1] https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

[2] https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5754

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Re:Qutebrowser by The-Compiler on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:37PM (#26469466)
Make sure you're using the adblocking based on the Python "adblock" library - :version will tell you whether it's available.

With that library, the main missing thing is element hiding (cosmetic filtering). Without it, qutebrowser automatically falls back on host blocking, which is much worse.

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