Instart Logic's anti-user agent technology appears to have gone away and consequently the extension has become useless, as its main purpose was to foil Instart Logic's 3rd parties obfuscation technology.įor the historical record, these were the extension stats when I unpublished it:Ī companion extension to uBlock Origin: to gain ability to foil early anti-user mechanisms working around content blockers or even a browser privacy settings. To be frank habits have their part : I know the browser (moderato) and that counts a lot unless for those who have the soul inclined to adventures and discoveries, which is lesser and lesser my case as the years go by.Important: As of October 20, 2020, uBO-Extra is discontinued and is no longer present in the Chrome Web store. I have quite a few (137,360 network filters + 123,802 cosmetic filters at this time).Īll this sums up to congratulations for the two : uBlock Origin and Firefox. I never encountered the auto-promo and now I know that it’s at least thanks to the AdGuard Annoyances list for uBlock Origin. Images and maps are the only quests which get me close to BigG, YouTube also though most often accessed via Invidious instances (direct and embedded). As often a simple reason when we often search far too far.īack to Google’s recommendation for itself. Three minutes exactly after the browser’s start I’d get a message stating lack of disk space : I’ve got so much available! I tried everything when in fact the reason was so simple : my Firefox profile is on a RAMDisk, configured to hold 128M … and it appears that the profile disk spacer, near a 100MB when opened, was a too high ratio to not trigger the message. Many bad words wen through my mind then, addressed to developers I imagined irresponsible. Hopefully I’m commenting after having found the solution to an issue I’ve spent the night to resolve. No fan attitude, I started liking it for privacy, then for the plethora of prefs, finally for the ease of tweaking its display. I have the feeling many comments in progress.įirefox here. Now You: which web browser do you prefer? You'd have to analyze the new code and create a new filter to block the widget again. Google could change the address the banner is loaded from and the filter would stop working. The annoyances filter list is updated regularly to reflect code changes and to add new entries to the list to get these blocked. Note that the manual option has the disadvantage of not being updated if Google changes code. by replacing, which you probably don't use. add a local Google site to the listing or remove one. ![]() ![]() If you don't use uBlock Origin, or don't want to subscribe to the full list blocking annoyances on the web, then you may add the following filter as a custom filter to your content blocker to block the Google recommends using Chrome widget on Google properties. One of the entries hides Google's Chrome recommendation, others hide other ads by Google on its properties that advertise Chrome when you open the site with another web browser. Activate the uBlock Origin icon in the browser's main toolbar and select Go To Dashboard.ĪdGuard Annoyances includes more than 44k entries, which hide annoyances on the Internet.If you are using uBlock Origin, here is what you need to do: There is another option, one that works really well. How to remove Google recommends using ChromeĬontent blockers such as uBlock Origin may hide the advertisement on Google websites, but if you use the element picker to hide it, you won't hide it permanently because of the way it is designed. There are plenty of alternatives available that offer better privacy, including Chromium, which is like Chrome but without many Google-bits, or the third-party browsers Vivaldi and Brave. If you have made up your mind and don't want to switch, or can't, then you may prefer if the advertisement is no longer displayed as it serves no real purposes in that case and may be distracting.Ĭhrome is certainly fast and secure, but the lack of privacy may deter privacy-conscious users from using the browser. Don't switch dismisses the widget, but it may be displayed again on the next widget. There is an option to select "don't switch" and another that simply states "yes". ![]() Easily search on Google with the fast, secure browser.
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