No uBlock Origin and no Privacy Badger anymore?

[Gone I Guess]

Hello,

I just installed Palemoon on a Linux 64bit machine and realized it wouldn't give the possibility to install uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger anymore. I never realized that on this here Windows 7 machine I'm on right now. Looked up the alternatives and read they allow 'accepted ads' or some such. Which isn't what you'd need an adblocker for.

I do have Vivaldi and Firefox to fall back on, but always loved Palemoon as default because it is fast and light. But I'm not sure if I want to try to get the extensions in with manually installing, given that they probably won't even work in Palemoon anymore.

Is there a special reason those extensions are gone? It cannot be that they're too old or not up to it anymore. Both Vivaldi and Firefox run them without problems.

Looking around for a Palemoon alternative for Linux now. Brave perhaps, or Falkon. Darn I don't like it.

Any chance for an ideology change and the old extensions coming back?

[back2themoon]

Not sure where you looked and what kind of "ideology change" you are talking about. There a link to uBlock Origin right in the Pale Moon Add-ons website:

https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/ ... -security/

There is also another recently updated, unofficial version available on another community/website. So you actually have two of them to choose from.

Information on both of these recent uBO versions is widely available here on this forum. The initial uBO for Pale Moon was maintained by JustOff (see below).

As for Privacy Badger, never used it. I see there was a Pale Moon version by JustOff. He is/was involved in the Russia/Ukraine war and he's missing for years. You can try complaining to the original -and current- Privacy Badger creators.

[moonbat]

Reminder yet again to all newcomers that this is a complete fork and not merely a rebuild of Firefox like Waterfox/Librewolf etc and it has its own addons site that you should look at, not the Firefox addons site.

[4td8s]

There is also another recently updated, unofficial version available on another community/website. So you actually have two of them to choose from.

and another unofficial version of uBO from a different person here.
I use this one on PM

[back2themoon]

That's the one I mentioned first in my post.

[ron_1]

Reminder yet again to all newcomers that this is a complete fork and not merely a rebuild of Firefox like Waterfox/Librewolf etc

Unlike 15 - 20 years ago, most people just don't understand this.

[moonbat]

Unlike 15 - 20 years ago, most people just don't understand this.

The Great Dumbening(tm) started the day smartphone internet traffic overtook that of desktop PCs.

[Michaell]

and another unofficial version of uBO from a different person here.
I use this one on PM

The install instructions page at that github site goes blank after loading. I don't know if that is another of the many issues PM has with github (like polyfill stuff). I was trying to see if they recommended uninstalling uBO first.

[Moonchild]

The install instructions page at that github site goes blank after loading.

Is your version of Pale Moon up-to-date? Github shouldn't cause any major issues on Pale Moon.

[LuftWafflePilot]

Reminder yet again to all newcomers that this is a complete fork and not merely a rebuild of Firefox like Waterfox/Librewolf etc

Unlike 15 - 20 years ago, most people just don't understand this.

You are working on the assumption everyone is a programmer/coder/whatever.
I only learned about that word from this forum, and I'm 43 years old and have been using computers in at least somewhat advanced way since 1995.

[Moonchild]

Well, unless you choose to completely ignore hundreds of instances of us saying it's not a Firefox rebuild for the past 10 years or so, not knowing what a fork is doesn't matter.

[moonbat]

I'm 43 years old and have been using computers in at least somewhat advanced way since 1995.

Off-topic:
I'm 46 and started at the same time, using every version of Windows since then. I did become a programmer by profession eventually but I'm not a Windows programmer (or even a system level programmer) so "I'm not a programmer" isn't an excuse. If you have been using computers for that long and still stumble over basics (in this context, despite being a long time active forum member as well), what can one say.

[LuftWafflePilot]

WTF are you on about with the long time active forum member part? That's not even what I said. I didn't say "I learned about the word yesterday", I said "from this forum".
You clearly made lots of effort to misinterpret my post, didn't you?

I commented on "the reminder to all newcomers" post, because large part of the old forum members seem to be living in a programmer or advanced super knowledgeable about the inner workings of a browser bubble with little idea what "normal" people know about any of this. I never gave two shits about programming and and I don't care, and I'm sure lots of people who might still be advanced users interested in an alternative browser are the same.
Let me rephrase my post: I consider myself somewhat advanced user (depending what we're talking about, certainly not Linux or programming for example), and it wasn't until I came to this forum when I learned what "fork" was. I bet LOTS of people are coming from the same place, so a reminder this is a full fork and not whatever else is potentially a completely useless information that won't help them in any way.

[Moonchild]

unless you choose to completely ignore hundreds of instances of us saying it's not a Firefox rebuild for the past 10 years or so, not knowing what a fork is doesn't matter.

[LuftWafflePilot]

Was that addressed at me?

[Michaell]

The install instructions page at that github site goes blank after loading.

Is your version of Pale Moon up-to-date? Github shouldn't cause any major issues on Pale Moon.

Was at 33.2.0. Now at 33.3.0, same issue. I said it went blank, but more specifically header and footer text still showed, just the main content was auto hidden after loading. Worked with my default settings in Firefox. Since I couldn't find anything else relevant to unblock in PM, I disabled javascript and that worked, content reappeared. Tracking down the specific offending script is beyond my interest level as Github is now always doing something new to break pages. But it's god when a workaround is found.

[ron_1]

I "like" how people sign up to a forum to post a rage-quit post, but then don't even bother to come back to see if someone posted a solution to a perceived problem.

[Goodydino]

Justoff's version of Privacy Badger was last updated in 2017 (according to github), while the EFF version was last updated in March 2024.