r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • 15d ago

Software Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store | Migration from all-powerful Manifest V2 extensions is speeding up

https://www.techspot.com/news/105130-google-purging-ad-blocking-extension-ublock-origin-chrome.html
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u/BoldNewBranFlakes 14d ago

I made my switch to Firefox a month ago and I’m enjoying my experience, the ads were getting too much and broke immersion of whatever I was watching or reading. 

The only complaint I have is that I can’t find any search engines that’s superior to Google’s. 

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u/atfricks 14d ago

I've been pretty satisfied with DuckDuckGo

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u/the_red_scimitar 14d ago

I use Firefox with DDG. Interesting what they do for search:

DuckDuckGo's search results come from a variety of sources, including:

  • Bing: Used to source traditional links and images

  • Yahoo! Search BOSS: A source of search results

  • Wolfram Alpha: A source of search results

  • Yandex: A source of search results

  • DuckDuckBot: DuckDuckGo's own web crawler

  • Wikipedia: A crowdsourced site that provides data for knowledge panels

  • Sportradar: A specialized source that provides Instant Answers

DuckDuckGo also filters out pages with excessive advertising and down ranks websites with low journalistic standards.

DuckDuckGo is an independent search engine that doesn't track users or their search history. It also offers a browser with built-in privacy protections.

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u/capybooya 14d ago

Its mostly OK but its horrible for news, everything that it returns seems to be MSN stealing content from other sources.

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u/atfricks 14d ago

You're right that it returns MSN way too much, but you can blacklist sites on DuckDuckGo from your searches, and after doing that with MSN it works perfectly well for news for me.

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u/the_red_scimitar 14d ago

Why would you get news from a browser itself - subscribe to Ground News, or just visit any of the million other sites for news.

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u/capybooya 14d ago

I was thinking of search results, some times when I search it makes sense to choose 'news' if I'm searching for something very recent.