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What is even the point of Adblock Plus now? uBlock Origin seems so much better


It's better than nothing for the non-expert users who don't know it's worse than other options available right now. Pretty much the only worthy use case for it


Yep, it just has a much better name than uBlock Origin.


You're asking what the point in developing alternatives are?

Microsoft said the web was done at Internet Explorer 6.

It looks like it was also rewritten for webextensions from that blog post.


But AB isn't an alternative with pros and cons so much as it's a worse version of uBO.


> Microsoft said the web was done at Internet Explorer 6.

Yeah? And this is like OP asking "Now that Edge exists, what's the point of IE 6?"


The point is (as with so many things) money. If I remember right, ABP makes money by allowing "friendly" ads if they get payed for it.


The same can be said about the swastika :^)


Not to ignore the point being illustrated, nor the tongue-in-cheek nature of it, but a symbol on the flag of Nazi Germany and a Latin phrase from the middle ages that some undesirables on the internet use don't really seem comparable in scale, and scale is the important thing here.

MAGA, for instance, was memetic, so if you use/repurpose it, there's a relatively unambiguous origin. Deus Vult in this context, not so much; it lacks the spread and saturation necessary. If the Swastika was only present on a small subset of Nazi paraphernalia, it wouldn't be nearly as taboo - it's till so toxic today because it was on everything and so readily associated.

So I don't really think that argument applies here.


I get your point - if the swastika is used in a western country, its almost certainly a Neo-Nazi using it, not a middle-aged Indian woman, even though millions of Indians use the swastika in a religious context every day. However, by the same token, if someone says Deus Vult, its statistically far more likely to be a Neo-Nazi/far right nut rather than a fan of Crusader Kings.


I don't agree with that - there are more fans of crusader kings than there are Neo-Nazis.


I really don't like just letting scumbags claim every cultural item and symbol they want. The swastika is clearly lost to us, give the breadth and enormity of its use, but if we let them poison everything they ever touch we'll end up poorer for it.


boostnote[1] also does this

[1] https://boostnote.io/


Why not use your package manager?


Interesting! Didn't realize Ubuntu had included it already. I almost always assumed Ubuntu package manager is always behind by a few versions (like it is for everything else).


Ubuntu tends to keep Firefox up to date, although I haven't used Ubuntu for a few months already.

But regardless, this is the "official PPA" for the Beta channel: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-n...


for firefox there is really not any other way, because security updates are not backported. So either you have (ubuntu, ...) to pick latest or ancient ESR.


"there is no ethical consumption under capitalism"


I have five columns on my 1920x1080 screen using Firefox, dont know if that makes a difference.


instead of making your own specialized bookmarks, DuckDuckGo has bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bang


> We'd still be using wired mice and ugly black boxes.

im pretty sure a lot of people use wired mice and have black boxes as their desktop computer case.


... and are perfectly happy doing it. Heck, I even use an "ugly black box" as my laptop (an older Lenovo thinkpad) :)


There is nothing ugly about a thinkpad!


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