Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to Switch to Firefox

Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by FirmwareBurner on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:14AM (#38430938)

But that wasn't an objective analysis, that's just your highly opinionated opinion with which I found some flaws in, as in you're wrong about several statements.

>Google's Chrome does not do this, and searching on google.com only asks for sharing of data with Google itself.

You mean sharing your data with Google THE ad-company which then shares your data to advertisers? How is that any more private?

>And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.

Same as Chrome on this front.

>And Edge is hard-coded to use Bing.

No it's not, you can change it. https://www.google.com/homepage/search/sp-edge-p.html

Nothing wrong with having a strong opininated opinion on a matter, but you can't just sell it as objective facts.

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by tentacleuno on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:46AM (#38434554)

> No it's not, you can change it.

Aside from the big blue Bing button in the user-chrome (and the MS sidebar), and the fact that switching your search engine in Edge involves jumping through a surprising amount of hoops, as opposed to Chrom[ium/e]. I haven't counted the number of steps, but it's definitely more than Chromium-based browsers -- they seem to have intentionally buried it in Settings (it's right at the bottom of one of the pages), and you get a ton of "Bing is great!" messaging when you do finally figure out how to switch it.

P.S. That demo you linked shows an outdated version of Edge.

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by FirmwareBurner on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:34PM (#38436199)

>switching your search engine in Edge involves jumping through a surprising amount of hoops

Settings -> Privacy, search and services -> Address bar and search

3 steps are "jumping through a surprising amount of hoops" for you?

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by jve on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:49AM (#38444467)

In the past, one would right click on omnibar/searchbar/addressbar and modify search engines from there... Now it really takes a search within settings to find it - and it takes prior knowledge that these things are possible :)

TLDR: I use Edge as my primary browser.

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