Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

  • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    I can’t imagine using the web without firefox and ublock. Even the cookie consent popups are awful.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    If it goes… I don’t know what I’ll do.

    Go out and touch grass probably.

    Get a hobby.

    Perfect my molotov recipe.

      • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yes, and “ordnance”! “Ordinance” is like a municipal law, “ordnance” is explosives. Not trying to be pedantic, trying to inform. Slava Ukraini, by the way. <3

    • Mountainaire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Come on, the meme format requires you to put another normal sentence at the end right after the provocative one lol.

      • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I meant… Robot molotov. With AI. And cloud. And blockchain integration.

        I don’t know what I’m doing I hope that will suffice.

        Wait what meme format.

        • Mountainaire@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’m just messing around. I was thinking of a 4-panel comic in which a person does chores, like vacuuming, handling laundry, and the 2nd-to-last panel is something like, “Dread one’s short existence,” before finishing with another humdrum task in the style of the other panels. I can’t find the comic despite trying, unfortunately!

  • TWeaK@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Alternate headline: Firefox is now the only browser worth using.

    And in any case, lumping Firefox as one browser is disingenuous. There are numerous Firefox forks, just like every other major browser is in fact a Google Chromium fork.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      it still boggles my mind that Microsoft developed Edge as a standalone browser as a replacement for IE then just said “nah, let’s just use Chromium.”

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        In the future it will probably come out there was a massive backroom deal. Neither this nor dropping Windows Phone have made any sense.

  • mountainRadish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Future is dark:

    1. Android getting locked down

    2. They are asking your government ID to use OS, access internet etc.

    There must be real protest, revolution, something otherwise it will just get worst

    • Super Mega Ultra Edition DX Unleashed 64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      pssst: it’s gonna get worse

      Download a shitload of epubs, roms, backup of wikipedia, and get ready for full-on, unmissable, 1984-style marketing and propaganda culture. You’ll see it, you’ll have to see it, and there will be no option B.

      • mountainRadish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 months ago

        I am not sure what your comments mean. I am in tremendous back pain. And didn’t sleep For so long, and the fucking humidity.

        I want to add more. And vent.

        I am old enough and I saw similar actions, and the out come of it.

        Slwoly we are forced to use ESIMS, where I live, I have to pay every time I switch phones.

        And if I am outside of the country, I can’t even switch phones.

        I love the idea of esims, but not how it is implemented.

        Digiral data produced by me is so.expensive to keep.

        It is the digital age, but not a digital .storage age, it is cheaper to print shit.

        Optical storage can store terabytes of data, easy to maintain, you can design a device where the hdd store meta data and anyone from your family cam access the data stored on archival optical drives.

        It is not built because they want us to use the cloud. Maybe it is greed, control, surveillance.

        I just want a simple cartridge that can store my data for decads and technologically that is easily done. There are already archival optical storage sold to data centers, but why not to small businesses or consumers!?!?

        It is basically several bluray discs in a cartridge.

        The future is dark because of human nature.

        And we will do nothing about because look at state of printers. The ink cost more than gold per gram

        Look at air purifiers all proprietary filters that are over priced

        And yes I know about CR boxes but those furnace filters are only sold in USA.

        We are not good creatures

        Sorry, I am coherent enough to know I am not coherent, I needed to vent.

  • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Like a true google hate inspired hipster I have been using Firefox for at least the past 9 years. Don’t let one of the shittiest companies control even more of the world because you are too fucking lazy to switch to a different browser. If you have to deal with a few shitty websites made by morons that only work in chrome keep a secondary chromium install on standby when you have to hold your nose and use it.

    • neclimdul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Honestly I can only think of one. Weirdly a “developer platform”

      Well I guess a couple more because keyboard firmware sites do that usb browser thing that terrifies me is a thing and only chrome supports.

      • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I have been a web dev for over 25… oh god… approaching 30 years, and most web dev teams with an ounce of self respect will spend the honestly trivial time to test against different browsers. I consider it a basic part of the god damn job. Even still banks and government sites seem to not give a fuck.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      They “get the job done,” perhaps even provably, but:

      • It’s less flexible for fighting anti-adblocking.

      • Hence, it’s more work for Adblock devs/listmakers to maintain.

      You can see the UBO devs already complaining/stressing about it. Hence them recently dropping Facebook from their 1st-party lists because they’re tired of fighting paid devs, or increased reports of UBO Lite specific issues.

      I think that’s Google’s real intent.

      They aren’t trying to kill adblocking, just make it inconvenient enough so the vast majority don’t use it effectively. It’s a form of “soft” censorship, sort of.

  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    So, I can finally point and laugh at the people who were saying that the manifest V3 thing was a non issue because their ad blocker was still working ?

    • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      02·
      2 months ago

      No, because ad blocks work perfectly fine.

      I’m using Ghostery on Vivaldi (Chromium-based) and it works perfectly fine, including blocking ads during YouTube videos.

      No idea why uBlock specifically is being blocked, but it’s not like you can’t have an ad-blocker anymore.

      • Übercomplicated@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Out of curiosity, why do you use Ghostery rather than uBlock Origin? It was quite controversial back in the day, but seems to be open source and stuff now. I still don’t see any advantage over uBO, though, so I wonder what would move you to use it instead.

        • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          I started using Ghostery because it had a cookies auto-reject mechanism. The ad-blocking stuff came in later, which I didn’t even realise, but I installed it first on a new device, did some browsing, noticed there’s no ads, and thought “well, good enough”.

          I do miss the custom HTML-element cutting, though.