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Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January
An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced it will block local Chrome extensions starting in January, but only on the Windows platform. This means that next year, Windows users will only be able to install extensions for the company's browser from the Chrome Web Store. The changes will affect both Chrome's stable and beta channels on Windows. Google says it will continue to support local extension installs on its Dev and Canary channels, as well as installs via Enterprise policy. Chrome apps are not affected at all and will continue to be supported normally."
I know that LastPass has a web app, but the local app has for more options. Hope they get this updated before January!
For example, YouTube downloaders-
I stopped using Chrome because it's extensions were not up to par with Firefox addons.
And now I feel less inclined to use Chrome at all.
I use an extension to download videos from YouTube. Those tend to be blocked from the Web Store, so you have to install them manually from other websites (this is the bit that is getting blocked). I hope there is at least a command line switch left in to disable this behavior! It's very "walled garden" and I don't like it.
BTW, the summary says "local extensions" but that is incorrect. It just blocks non-Chrome Web Store web extensions. Extensions you are actively developing and load via "Load unpacked extension" will still work.
Actually, that might have to be the fix for my YouTube extension I use. Oh well.
...And overnight, Chromium replaces 97% of Chrome's market share.
Good thing I use Chromium.
Adblock, maybe?
Did Google recently buy a brick factory because they seem to be trying to slowly build a wall around their not-quite-as-open-as-it-once-was garden. Between this and some of the stuff they are pulling with Android (Play Store, API lock-ins) and Chromecast they seem to be all about turning down the openness lately. Come to think of it, that seems to be a trend (Skype, Twitter APIs off the top of my head, then of course that fruit company) lately.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Just what we need less and less control over ......
I go to something else. Can't live without that one.
Oh, wait, you can just use Chromium and stop crying.
Anyone that uses Chrome and bitches deserves to suffer. You do not need automatic updates.
In fact, automatic updates are more of a pain than anything. There is a reason nobody uses forced updating in business, because developers are asshats that constantly break their own shit and then everyone suffers because of it.
Chromium devs are some of the worst for that too. I can't count how many times "stable" updates broke the browser back in the earlier days, jesus christ what the hell were you guys doing?
If they do, however, block it on Chromium, I am serious in the forking question, I can easily drop my life and work on it. Fuck Google. Don't piss me off, I'm bitter, determined and lifeless outside of code.
I suspect that this is less about blocking YouTube downloaders, and more about blocking those extensions that appear after not un-checking the box on programs downloaded and installed from the internet. I.e. it's more for the protection of grandma who wants to download a pretty solitaire app than it is for stopping little Johnny downloading his music videos of Miley. If you're smart enough to follow a few simple instructions and install a local extension, you're smart enough to follow a few simple instructions and install the Dev channel of Chrome first.
If that were the motivation, would they not also do this on the Mac?
This is about _fucking_ annoying windows malware repeatedly reinstalling chrome extensions.
mediahint, Hola, anything that lets you free VPN into services that you aren't really supposed to be able to access.
First you are going to kill off VoIP via Google voice, and now this.. Have they lost their minds? What is next?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Nothing new here. Just Google making things more difficult for users on a platform that isn't theirs. Nothing anti-competitive about that, nope. Nothing to see here, folks, just move along...
Luckily, most users won't notice a thing.
It appears that Google is acting no different than Apple, Microsoft or any of the other big name corporations in that they are holding customers hostage to their OS environment trying to force customer loyalty. Customer loyalty is built through providing good products and great service.
No, really. Have you forgotten that there are free alternatives?
I have the same add-on available for both Google Chrome and Firefox. Firefox has about 100x as many users.
It makes Chrome the same on all platforms so that using Chrome on windows is like Chrome OS on a chromebook.
It is a stupid move, just like removing the ability to turn off all autocomplete in the address bar.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Honestly, the way Google arbitrarily quits various projects, leaving users who
had time invested in using this projects, combined with "strategic" moves like
this blocking of extensions, makes them look like nothing so much as a bunch
of entitled sociopathic douche bags.
See Also: Google Chrome 25 will disable silent extension installation, kill all such extensions retroactively
Friday, 21 Dec 2012
Translation: Google still can't figure out how to secure Chrome from stealth installs of malware.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Adblock definitely not be available to chrome soon
All adblock apps and addons were banned from google play store already.
Firefox is only browser on android and desktop that will support adblock plugin soon.
Plus they've realy exposed their hate of adblock on google groups forums
Adblock is on the Chrome Web Store.
If that were the motivation, would they not also do this on the Mac?
This is about _fucking_ annoying windows malware repeatedly reinstalling chrome extensions.
The fact that they are not breaking the capability on 'enterprise' policy installs suggests the same.
Incidentally, even if you aren't on a domain, this should mean that it isn't exactly rocket surgery to install the 'blocked' Chrome extensions. Winkey+r, gpedit.msc, import the chromium policy templates, modify 'ExtensionInstallForcelist' to taste. Game over.
Came here to say this, it's all about the malware. Tons of malware apps use Chrome plugins.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
do I really have to click through some summary of a statement from Google just to read that Google is doing this as a security response to abusers of the extension mechanism...?
the click bait makes it seem like Google is trying to consolidate its power when they explain in their blog pay that this is to prevent actual abuse.
finally, here's why Google actually does suck: their hangouts extension doesn't work without g+ membership (I said no 500 times in YouTube dammit so stop asking!) and they have announced that they're ending Google talk, breaking jitsi and other chat programs after also ending jabber compatibility. Forcing all gchat users to join g+ is the kind of tying monopoly shit Microsoft did on the 90s. stop it Google.
There are Chrome alternatives, SRWare Iron probably won't include such a stupid self-serving clause.
Google's catch phrase "don't be evil" reminds me of the famous Outerlimits Episode where the aliens come "TO serve Man", and it turns out that's the title of their cook book.
So google walls its garden. The walls seem to be taller than apples. FOr example, try installing linux on a chromebook. Sure you can do it but every single time it falls asleep or boots the screen it says after wake"You are running in an insecure mode, press the space bar". If press the spacebar, it erases the hard drive and re-installs chrome from scratch. Thus it's practically impossible to run Linux in any stable way on a chrome book. Yes it runs, but it's like having a set of rotating knives permanently surrounding the on-off switch. They just don't want you to do this, while they want to take credit for having an "open" platform. ( by comparisons Apples are happy to boot to linux, no rotating knives thrust at you upon wake from sleep.)
Now they crank down on the path you can use to install extensions.
Google has become not only more severe than apple but they also sell all your private info.
Google actually meant "Don't settle for being merely Evil".
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I am glad you feel that way, because I stopped using Firefox because it's extensions are not up to par with Chrome extensions. I got tired of extensions not syncing transparently across my many computers. I got tied of extensions constantly being disabled every time I upgraded the browser. I got tired of not having amazing extensions like SilverBird and Checker Plus and and having to put up with crappy, clunky alternatives. Finally I got tired of having to install extensions in Firefox for things that just come for free in Chrome in the first place.
Except that gpedit.msc to my knowledge is not available on Home Basic versions at least.
... how the fine editor and all the comments managed to avoid even hinting to the real reason (clearly stated in both TFA and the original announcement - seriously, how fucking hard is it to link to that instead of some random article?!):
http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-from-malicious.html
This is strictly a security move. Google says it is making the move in reaction to malicious Chrome extensions plaguing Microsoft’s desktop platform
Last time I checked HTTPS Everywhere was installed from the EFF's web site and not through the Chrome store. What does this mean for Chrome and HTTPS by default?
And another corp degrades their products and starts trend toward abandonment.
Run a dns proxy.
For now. I don't trust the world's biggest advertiser to control my "user experience". There's a ghastly conflict of interest there.
I run a computer repair shop and this is not an exaggeration. Anyone stupid enough to accidentally install and then use Chrome is evidently also stupid enough to install 50 different advertising and crapware plugins as well. Every copy of Chrome I see is infected with DefaultTab and MP3Rocket and Babylon, etc. This now makes perfect sense because they can advertising themselves as the clean and safe browser.
But not available as an Android extension I think.
The fact that they are not breaking the capability on 'enterprise' policy installs suggests the same.
And the fact that they allow anyone to run dev channel build, and they don't block them there...
It was nice, Chrome. Your scripting engine was fast. You hardly ever crashed. Your UI was pretty decent. I could even overlook some of your shortcomings. You were my first tabbed browser. I was actually willing to retrain my brain to quit using my OS's more universal process switching in defference to your tabbiness. We had some tough times closing the whole browser by accident when we really only wanted to close the page; but we worked through it. Your scripting engine was fast. You were young and sexy. It had to end though. I knew you wanted to pull me into your walled garden and make me mow every Saturday. I just wasn't ready for that kind of commitment. I know it's painful but I think we both realize it's time to move on. There's this other browser and, well... it's a fox.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Unfortunately I have yet to a windows installation that doesn't have all browsers encumbered by at least 3 adware/spyware addons. This even happened on my own computer after letting my niece play with it for a few hours. Only discovered after noticing "ads not from this page" poppons. Unfortunately this is probably a step in the right direction for most users. To the knowledgeable this is only a annoyance.
You wouldn't want it as a browser extension on mobile. Most of the ads served to you are in the apps you use. In that use the easiest way to do an ad blocker on mobile is the hosts file. Ad Away does this on android and works beautifully.
You can always add the registry keys by hand in that scenario.
In the store. Google made some changes to Webkit a while back to improve Adblock, before Adblock used to still have to download the ads, then block them. Some changes Google made allowed the ads to be blocked before the ads were fetched.
Sounds like a good reason to avoid Chrome. And to be suspicious of any Google product.
I'm *not* on MSWind, but...
Yeah, I know it's "a security measure". If that's their idea of the right way to implement a security measure, then I'm quite skeptical of anything Google does. But really I believe that the explanation is a lie. They aren't starting it now, and they haven't announced that "it's a temporary measure until we get a better fix".
It seems to have been a long time now since Google was the "Do no evil" company, or even had that as a goal.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I use Chromium, is it going to be affected by this or is this Google branded?
Perhaps not... Apparently, I'm not too deeply versed in Windows technical arcana, but apparently some applications are configured by group policy indirectly (group policy changes the registry in the appropriate places, the application reads the registry in those places and acts accordingly) and some applications use an OS-provided API to query the applied group policies directly and apply those(exactly where the policies are stored in this instance is not clear to me. The domain controller presumably has them, in a networked environment; but where on the client they persist if it goes off the grid for a bit, or in the case of a locally managed machine, I don't know).
As of version 28, (according to the thread in the above link, because of malware leading Chrome around by the nose through modifications of the registry entries), Chrome switched from the registry-based mechanism to the new mechanism. Modifications to the registry are now ignored, and only policies applied by the OS-supported group policy manipulation mechanisms will apply.
I assume that these policies have to live somewhere, and thus can be edited (even if the OS protects them hard enough that you need a hex editor and a liveCD to do it); but it won't be a simple regedit.exe job.
shushsh, the hosts file guy may hear you.
Moderating "-1, Disagree" is simple censorship. Have the guts to post your opinion. -- Spazmania (174582)
Or edit your HOSTS file...
Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you...
The banning of local plugins is about malware.
The banning of Ad Block from Play is because Google is an advertising company and hates Ad Block.
Oh come on please dont bait the hosts guy out...
However there are alternatives. I used to use proxy pac files. If that failed I would use a proxy server. If that failed I would then use a hosts file. Hosts file being the last line of defense. Because large hosts files are sort of shotgun. It fails when you have a mixed site. Where you want partial content. In that case you need something to parse the URL's and sometimes even the content. It is why I went with firefox and adblock plus and no-script.
http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/
Firefox is only browser on android and desktop that will support adblock plugin soon.
Mac Safari has AdBlock as well.
#DeleteChrome
I've been 100% SRware Iron since the stupid new tab page in Chrome 29. Been using Iron for years, tho.
Slashdot Valentines Beta Massacre: iT WORKED! The boycotts killed Beta!!
The next thing is Google will block Ad blocking extensions like it does on Play, or anything else they are pressured on.
Last I looked you couldn't get Safari for both "android and desktop".
Chrome extensions are fucking userscripts, install tampermonkey, all this does is stop installers from installing shit, you are still fully capable of doing so
The adblock guys should package it as a local standalone proxy then.
so far they did a good job to keep the real annoying ads (flash, blinking, sound) out of their ads.
I never had an urge to block ads served by google
bickerdyke
If they were planning to do that they would have started by removing all the existing extensions on their web store that let you do those things. You can install numerous YouTube downloaders, proxy managers, ad blockers etc. and the same goes for Play (Android apps).
This move is simply to block malware.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
AdBlock Plus for Chrome, from the official Google site: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
There are many other ad blockers available on there too. If you are going to lie you should at least think of something that isn't so trivially easy to disprove.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Many Macs are desktops...
I use a Linux desktop :) :)
It happens to be my personal computer
or if you do, we'll just use firefox
So, who really wants to use Google? Which is worse: Apple, Google or MSFT? I vote Google. They sell your info, they give it away, they data mine and lord knows what else they do. Plus, who thinks that Yahoo isn't a Google product now, please raise your hands.
I concur Captain Obvious.
Do I have to spell it out? The comment said Firefox was the only browser on both Android and Desktop that supported Adblock. That means Safari, Apple and Mac are not the subject.
Why do I care what browser my phone is running when selecting one for my desktop? I don't really understand the insistence on tying the two together.
From a syntactical perspective, "Firefox is only browser on android and desktop that will support adblock plugin soon," is ambiguous. You could be referring to the union "android and desktop" or to the intersection of "android and desktop". So I don't think the example above is out of line. (The inclusion of "both" removes ambiguity, per your second post.)
Lastly, Chromium?
The primary use case of downloading a Youtube video is to use said video in another work. For example: a mashup or parody, or in a presentation at a convention where Internet access isn't guaranteed.
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This scared me into re-installing Firefox. After 10 minutes of having to re-start the browser after putting in every new extension - plus the butt-ugly interface - I remembered why I switched from Firefox to Chrome in the first place. Fuck it. Even crippled, Chrome will be more pleasant to use than that.
One of the things I liked most about Chrome is native support for most userscripts. This change appears to block them too!!
Too bad. Google Chrome showed such great promise once . . .
and their NSA comrades.
Sent from my ENIAC
Well, potentially, because you want a consistent experience across devices, via settings, bookmarks, history etc via Firefox Sync.
I've never used it personally (tin-foil hat...)
Syncing settings, passwords and bookmarks is a lot easier when using the same browser between phones, tablets and desktop.
It is a simple regedit.exe job.
Group policy is just registry settings delivered by the domain.
They blocked media hint a while ago.
I don't know for sure about the others, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what is coming.
It's an ugly browser. I tried it a while back and just could not get on with the minimalist interface and lack of useful addons. The deal breaker was not being able to move the scroll bar to the left hand side.
Fastforward a few years and we get it installed at work. After a little while, I see that nothing's changed, I removed it and went back to a decent browser.
-- Fuck Beta
Correction. Adblock Plus is available in Chrome Web Store.
It's Youtube Downloaders that are not.
I'm surprised the lack of capital letters doesn't bother you, then. A lack of capitals or basic punctuation is what really bothers me, as not having those elements makes posts much more difficult for me to read.
It doesn't bother me when users sign posts *if* they aren't inexplicably changing languages just to display their adoration for another culture. There was one user on a forum Ihung out on several years ago that went 'all the way' in that department: she posted a couple dozen times per day, and diligently placed an overly-cutesy "aloha ^_^" at the beginning and end of every single one.
Now mostly at Usenet:comp.misc & SoylentNews.org (it's made of people!)
Did you read the thread I linked to?
It's roughly 50% Windows admins whose GPO-fu is weak bitching because their registry hacks don't work anymore, and 50% Chromium developers telling them that, yes, sorry, Chrome queries group policy state directly, only falling back to the registry under specific conditions (and noting that they make no assurance that that fallback will continue in the future.)
If that isn't enough, try a look at 'policy_loader_win.h'. It's fairly clear about reading the registry, rather than grovelling through the policies directly, is a fallback behavior that occurs only if grovelling through the policies doesn't work out.
Yeah, but Google also got rid of adblocking software from the Android Market (now Play Store) after allowing them for a couple of years. You can't find any of the apps like "Ad Free" that would basically block all ads in your browser and in apps if you were rooted. It's probably only a matter of time before Google does the same with Chrome.
I actually wish Firefox would do something like this. Every now and then Firefox picks up a plugin that I don't want, because some program I installed added it*. In fact right now I have two from Google! That's Google Earth and Google Updater. Also one from Adobe Reader, one from Mathematica, and best of all one from Canon, excuse me, that's CANON, because naturally I need a Firefox plugin to use my printer. No clue what any of them are supposed to do, didn't even know they were there until I went to update Java. Oh, almost forgot, Java installs two plugins not one! All of these plugins are disabled now that I know they're there; for some reason Firefox doesn't give you a way to actually remove them!
I really view these plugins as malware. Which I guess means Google Earth and Mathemetica are malware. We already knew Flash was malware because it tries to install Google Chrome and a nice Ask toolbar. I would love it if Firefox would flat out block separate applications from installing plugins. Just give me a tool within Firefox to install local addons if I want to. Chrome should provide such a tool as well, and the fact that they skipped that part of the trade makes this pretty suspicious.
*Much as programs get to add exceptions to Windows Firewall without my knowledge. And the point of a firewall is what again?
Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):
---
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
---
A.) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,
C.) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
---
* "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
(Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see))
** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!
(Vs. slowing down SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE in addons which slow them down more: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts - A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
...apk
Hurr duur. You do spend a lot of time defending Google on Slashdot.
I think the idea is they could remove Adblock and nobody could side load it without installing Chromium...
But see, hysteria, speculation, and conspiracy theories are a lot more fun than facts.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
Because here on earth, is just a few seconds.
Even today, it still sucks at displaying websites right. Even Google made websites render horrendously bad on Chrome.
Speed is nothing when the data fails to displayed property.
Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):
---
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
---
A.) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,
C.) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
---
* "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
(Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see))
** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!
(Vs. slowing down SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE in addons which slow them down more: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts - A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
...apk
Youtube downloaders => Install them on Chrome dev channel, canary or switch to Linux/Mac/ChromeOS If you still want them on Windows stable, turn on developer mode in chrome://extensions And AdBlock is very much alive on Webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom It's obvious that Google is doing this to prevent crapware (installed by many naive Windows users) from hijacking your browser. If you're not a naive Windows user, why not move to dev channel?
Run them on Chrome dev channel or canary
I don't see the logic. As long as they can get away with it, 500000 VPN using paying subscribers are more profitable than 200000 lawful paying subscribers.
This is due to Chrome's webrequest extension API: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html
The firewall at work is very good at ensuring that nothing is installed from Google.
Thanks Google! Now I will go and disable autoupdate and use my current version until this stupidity ends.
This is due to Chrome's webrequest extension API: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html
Thank you for this! Was looking for a reference to it.
> AdBlock Plus for Chrome, from the official Google site
You mean the adblock that was on Google Play for Android until http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/google-pulls-ad-blocking-apps-from-play-store-for-violating-developer-distribution-agreement/ ?
There unfortunately seem to be so many naive like you to defend dick moves that it makes hard for the rest of us to motivate people for the good fights...
so far they did a good job to keep the real annoying ads (flash, blinking, sound) out of their ads.
You mean like the full screen flash rollover doubleclick ads? Yeah, sorry, thats google. Even the annoying massive youtube ads? Yeah, thats google too.
http://i.imgur.com/7S5jn1w.png
If you want to shill for google, might want to try something thats not an obvious lie.
Quite literally the only reason I have Chrome installed is to use one very specific plugin that certainly wasn't installed through their store.
Time to make sure I have the Chrome updater service disabled.
Now I'll have to find all my extension and install them again, specially IDM. Oh no
Run them on firefox.
No need. Privoxy
Remove advertisements before the data even hits the browser.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
Mozilla has similar plans: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SZx7NlaMeFxA55-u8blvgCsPIl041xaJO5YLdu6HyOk/edit?pli=1#heading=h.8hzkmge855kv
I have never seen mediahint blocked and I use chrome to access US netflix from the UK. Here is the thing about that.... netflix know very very well that this is happening... they have to with the amount of ML profiling and monitoring they do. My account is clearly marked as a UK account and it would be trivial for them to check against that. But they don't. The do a geo test and if you pass that you get thru. They know... they don't care. It means more people will sign up for netflix if they can get both UK and US access.
Well, fuck you, Jorge Villalobos and your stupid prd. Thanks for sharing that.
Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):
---
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
---
A.) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,
C.) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
---
* "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
(Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see))
** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!
(Vs. slowing down SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE in addons which slow them down more: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts - A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
...apk
I have literally just this second installed AdBlock Plus in Chrome from Google's Chrome Web Store (the very link the GP posted).
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
Adblock is financially supported by Google.
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
This was my thought. I have already gone to Firefox when viewing YouTube because the extensions don't work half of the time anymore under Chrome, and installing them is a pain in the butt.
TubeMate is no longer in the Play store and you have to install by an alternative media site or downloading the apk. The YouTube downloaders I have seen in the Play store are either virus infected or just simply do not work - which may be why they are still there.
YouTube downloaders are disappearing from the Chrome site, and you have to download the extensions from the developers sites and manually install them. The extensions that still do appear in the Chrome store mostly do not work with current Chrome builds (or rather, out of the half-dozen ones I have tried, none worked - I didn't bother checking more because I found one on a developers site that worked).
If Chrome disables YouTube downloaders all together, I just won't use Chrome. There are many perfectly legal reasons for wanting to download videos from YouTube, the main reason be for showing videos in places that might not have Internet (ie some churches, lecture halls, my non-smart television, etc). And 99% of the time, it is not copyrighted (ie music videos, movie clips) that I am downloading.
I also sometimes use YouTube's tools (such as video stabilizer) on my personal videos, and download them when it finishes processing. Google's war on YouTube downloaders has lead me to pretty much using Firefox with extensions or stand-alone programs to download videos.
They uh...did remove those extensions. Anything that could download Youtube is against the ToS and not allowed in the chrome extension store. Here's an excerpt from the one I use "YouTube Options"
To save FLV, MP4, WebM, 3D, and 3GP formats from YouTube and other select sites in all available resolutions, you must use the full version from the "Developer website" link.
or this from "Video Downloader"
Due to Chrome Webstore Policy users are not able to download Youtube Video. This is NOT Youtube Downloader!
Blocking malware may even be the ultimate goal, as the extension system could be the easiest way to exploit chrome at this point, but the collateral damage is not negligible.
I started using Chrome for a couple online games as the extensions were easier to deal with in chrome. If those extensions get blocked I have no use for chrome and it will go poof. I use FF as my main browser, but it seems the newer versions have become pretty unstable. Under my normal use I can usually crash FF hard enough it can't restore my sessions as when it tries it again crashes. The EA online game is very hard to play without the extensions and these are the extensions approved by EA.
For added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity (i.e. -> ubiquitous versatility vs. INTENTIONALLY default crippled functionality):
1.) AdBlock doesn't block rogue DNS malware makers use - hosts do.
2.) AdBlock doesn't block known sites/servers of malware/malicious scripts - hosts do.
3.) AdBlock doesn't speed up FAVORITE sites - hosts do
4.) AdBlock can't blow past DNSBL's - hosts do.
5.) AdBlock doesn't avoid DNS requestlogs - hosts do.
6.) AdBlock doesn't protect vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers - hosts do.
7.) AdBlock doesn't protect vs. "FastFlux" botnets - hosts do
8.) Hosts = EASIER to self-manage: Textfile edit!
9.) Hosts operate LONG before REDUNDANT plugins (& ON MORE + do more)
10.) Plugins slowdown browsers (a message passing fact) - Stack a few up & see. Hosts, don't + operate in a far faster ring of privelege operation (ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode, not slower ring 3/rpl 3/usermode as browsers & their addons do) starting up w\ OS + IP stack.
11.) AdBlock ONLY works on Mozilla products (browser/email), hosts work on ANY webbound app & multiplatform.
12.) AdBlock doesn't protect external to browser email programs, hosts do (OUTLOOK, Eudora, etc.)
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* You're outnumbered 12++:1...
(So - you bait me out? Well - then, I KNOCK YOU OUT... it's THAT simple!)
APK
P.S.=> The "shotgun" just BLEW YOU AWAY by many orders of magnitude - & hosts are FAR easier to internally manage than a Proxy Auto Config (PAC) file - by FAR...
...apk
Youutube downloaders are actually prohibited from the Google store. They allow downloaders for other sites, but if it downloads from youtube it's a violation of their TOS.
You can't disprove my points & many disagree w/ you-> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3137925&cid=41436069
( & that's ONLY 40 or so upmods on my postings on hosts from over a year ago - there's MORE now)!
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* YOU FAIL!
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Especially in your speaking out your ASS attempting to "speak for everyone" - when I produce evidence from your /. peers to QUITE the contrary vs. your b.s. in the link above!
(You're FORCED to "Eat Your Words" troll - since you can't disprove facts I posted of hosts superiority over AdBlock + other browser addons, others reading my posts on hosts also up modding them vs. your erroneous lying words!)
Thanks for the "deja-vu" though - since, as you can see, some fool made the SAME MISTAKE you have - opening your mouth, & inserting your foot!
Don't worry:
You can "wash it down" with "the BITTER TASTE OF SELF-DEFEAT", + words you're eating (lol), & your foot.
APK
P.S.=> So, you just KNOW I've just GOTTA say it, as-is-per-my-inimitable style utilizing obvious truth & verifiable concrete fact:
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'"...
... apk
Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
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A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775
B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,
C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
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* "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
(Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see))
** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!
(Vs. slowing down SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE in addons which slow them down more: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts - A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
...apk
"...Then they ridicule you, then they fight you, & then you win" - Ghandi
Since you were rated "FUNNY" for this quote from you next:
"shushsh, the hosts file guy may hear you." - by Behrooz Amoozad (2831361) on Thursday November 07, 2013 @04:44PM (#45361051)
I heard you, yet I also SEE YOU RUN from disproving -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4422297&cid=45372399
Since you can't validly when those 12 points show how INFERIOR AdBlock & other browser addons are vs. custom HOSTS files (on NUMEROUS levels in better speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity (to an extent only on the latter final one though)).
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*Thus, per Ghandi - I win!
(As always vs. you WEAK trolls & sock puppets...)
APK
P.S.=> How & Why? Simple -- Since the "best you've got" = zero & you know it, I know it, + so does anyone else with 1/2 a brain reading (considering it's OBVIOUS you're just a 7 digit "brand new" SOCKPUPPET/trolling account - nothing more)....
... apk
Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
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A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775
B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown.
C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
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* "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
(Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see))
** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!
(Vs. slowing down SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE in addons which slow them down more: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts - A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
...apk
Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
---
A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775
B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,
C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
---
* "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
(Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see))
---
** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!
(Vs. slowing down SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE in addons which slow them down more: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts - A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
...apk
Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
---
A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775
B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,
C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
---
* "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
(Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see))
---
** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!
(Vs. slowing down SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE in addons which slow them down more: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts - A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
...apk
Automate Production Kinetics of that job http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74
* :)
(Automation that makes the impossible, possible, for 1 person)
APK
P.S.=> It's an import/sort-deduplicate & processing engine that allows what a single otherwise unassisted person alone couldn't achieve in a century probably (let alone a day) in sort/deduplicate alone with sets WELL daily into the "high High HIGH" 1,000's typically in importing update data alone - let alone millions (as I have for decades daily - 2,183,442++ took a nearly 2 decades++ to build up to though here) ...
apk
"Did it ever occur to you that nobody reads your posts" - by shiftless (410350) on Friday November 08, 2013 @01:05PM (#45370223) FROM -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4422297&cid=45370223
"Eat your words" vs. those of 50++ of your /. peers upmodding my posts on hosts then:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4146239&cid=44715063
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4081759&cid=44546757
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3989671&cid=44321359
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44311011
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3459251&cid=42894295
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3488893&cid=42993337
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3488893&cid=42993393
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3647643&cid=43447983
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3137925&cid=41429093
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3397505&cid=42651965
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2940173&cid=40455449
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2734503&cid=39408607
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2857487&cid=40034765
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2644205&cid=38860239
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2603836&cid=38586216
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2614186&cid=38658078
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2611414&cid=38639460
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2926641&cid=40383743
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2457766&cid=37592458
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2059420&cid=35654066
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2457274&cid=37589596
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2220314&cid=36372850
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2116504&cid=35985584
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments
If press the spacebar, it erases the hard drive and re-installs chrome from scratch.
Liar. .. All Google did was enable a security feature by default, a feature that most people will want and which is easily bypassed.
So you call the OP a liar, then say he was 100% correct in every detail? Astroturf much?
"Are you still talking?" - by shiftless (410350) on Monday November 11, 2013 @02:52PM (#45393747) Homepage
Your mouth's full "eatin yer words"+FOOT in it http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4422297&cid=45389951 by a 50++:1 ratio of & by a "jury" of your /. peers reading & upmodding my posts on hosts as SOLID UNDENIABLE PROOF blowing your b.s away, easily - best part's I didn't DO the SAYING of it - your /. peers did.!
So - What are you doing now?
Oh, I KNOW (lol): "Washing 'em both down" (lol) with "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" too!
(It all shows you FAIL troll, & rather reprehensibly.. get over your "geek angst" fool - you FAILED!)
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* Suggestion: Change your username on /. to "ShiTless" (vs. your current "ShiftLess" since I easily "knocked the chocolate" (last word being polite for shit) out of you, by letting YOU do it to YOURSELF, lol!)
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(Funniest part = YOU did it to YOURSELF + Nice part for ME = I'll just toss it right back at you next time you "try* me... as I do with all of "your kind", troll).
APK
P.S.=> You fail, troll... THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'".. &, it always is, vs. lame technically WEAK trolls that fail @ disproving points of mine (via valid tech means) that nigh ALWAYS have to resort to their "last resort" - trolling!
... apk
FACT - 50:1 odds favor me over you - You're inadequate & YOU FAIL troll!
No doubt about it!
(That is unless you can show me that 50 of your /. peers upward moderating my posts on hosts is not greater than your 1, fool).
* :)
Since YOU are unable to face fact & truth?
Well - You are clearly delusional as well...
(What with your weakly *trying* to "take me on/get the better of me" probably WOULD do that to weak-minded FOOLS like you, lol - You're merely a TOTALLY cowardly weasel posting "pure ac" whose behind I kicked in as usual (when you obviously have a "registered 'luser'" account here on /. too)).
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Personally, I think it's funny as hell - lol!
(That's right - I love it!)
Especially since you've shown me + ANYONE else reading just how STUPID you are since you can't even accept the FACT that 50 of your /. peers slammed you & your b.s. into the dirt just "too, Too, TOO EASILY - just '2ez'ily" & as usual for me vs. you WEAK trolls, lol!
APK
P.S.=> After all - it's not MY fault you fools opened your mouths & inserted your feet into them, lol... & now You MUST "eat your words"!
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Please - DO tell us: HOW DOES EATING YOUR WORDS TASTE?
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(LOL - Must be pretty bad, considering your foot's in your mouth with them, & you must "wash both down" with the "bitter taste of SELF-defeat" also - LMAO...)
... apk