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
    9·
    9 days ago

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

        • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          9 days ago

          No, you should forget brave it’s yet another piece of shit chrome knock off. Just like the rest. It ain’t immune. It can kick and scream but either the entire project dies or they bend the knee eventually.

          • HieroProtagonist@feddit.orgEnglish
            01·
            9 days ago

            As long as chromium is open source I see no problem down the line… and if Google one day stops the funding of open source projects, well, the Firefox is also toast

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      9 days ago

      Ublock Lite still works in Chrome (and it still blocks YouTube ads, not sure about cookie popups), but you get no control over the filters. Just a slider with some presets to choose from. So while better than nothing, just stick with Firefox.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 days 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·
        6 days 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·
      8 days 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·
        6 days 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.

  • TWeaK@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    9 days 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
      1·
      8 days 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.”

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days 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.

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I’m not so sure about that, Ublock is the reason I use Firefox, and I don’t think I’m alone in that. And I’m pretty sure they know that.

  • mountainRadish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 days 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

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Why brave? I see a lot of seemingly tech savvy people using brave, and I don’t get it. Edge or chrome can do the same, in terms of rendering, and you don’t need to have software associated with Palantir installed.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        21·
        8 days ago

        May I present to you the hypocrisy of Lemmy?
        Boo proprietary software, boo crypto bros

        But brave? Insert spongebob wallet meme

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          I only use Brave when some site is genuinely broken on Firefox and actually needs Chromium. I only do this because of its built in ad blocker. I’m open to other suggestions. My default is Firefox.

          • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            Vivaldi is pretty neat, but as far as I understand it’s a closed source Chromium browser. Its my back-up one for when Zen(/Firefox) is having issues with a page, which thankfully is infrequent.

            The main reason I steer clear from Brave is because of its founder (former Mozilla employee) who has donated to an anti-gay bill among other things.

        • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          I don’t know how “privacy friendly” the Chromium branded chromium browser is. But if I had to use a chromium browser, and Edge wouldn’t suffice, that’s where I’d look. Brave would probably be last on my list of browser choices, because I don’t even trust the installer to not give me a little bit of Palantir flavored malware. And that’s to a degree that I wouldn’t even run it in a VM on my daily driver.

          https://7sees.substack.com/p/heres-why-i-dont-trust-brave-browser

          If I wanted to spy on privacy minded individuals, who are harder to spy on than the average person, then I’d launch some privacy product, work up the hype, and have it spy for me. I could have formulated that idea before Brave was launched. Seeing how Brave is associated with Palantir, to me it’s already fishy. And when it’s main selling point is privacy and conducts themselves exactly like I would have expected a malicious actor to do, then I just don’t use Brave.