Clickbait and misleading title, they're putting in motion what they said they would do for years. That being the manifest v3 change to extensions, and the deprecation of manifest v2.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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Google is not killing uBlock Origin, it is making its Chrome browser even less user friendly. Just use Firefox or a Firefox fork.
The www has already gone to shit anyway thanks to SEO bullshit websites and AI generated garbage. Most of my online interactions are via applications these days. The more these companies ruin the www the less I find myself using a web browser.
Here's hoping this pushes more people to Firefox
What is this "chrome" thing I keep reading about? Be right back, my wolf needs to be fed.
I know people who don't care about ublock so I guess it's not relevant. People who care about ad blockers should just move to Firefox or brave
is Brave's ad blocker as good as UO?
Brave is chromium
Brave has a built-in adblock. No extensions required.
Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?
In other news:
- Mozilla is an advertising company now
- Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now
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I wonder if the web itself may bifurcate. Corporate, government, and most NGO websites will only respond to corporate browsers that run sanctioned DRM binary blobs to “verify” their “safety”. And then there is us, with our websites and our web clients.
librewolf
Librewolf is fine for now, but it is small tweaks tracking FF’s codebase. I think that given Mozilla’s trajectory, at some point someone will have to do a hard fork.
Someone could do a hard fork of Chromium now, for that matter, but I’m not aware of any so far.
Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?
It seemed a lot more reasonable 15 years ago. The default on Windows at the time of Chrome's rise was Internet Explorer.
I am watching Ladybird with great interest. The world needs a new-from-the-ground-up browser.
Either ground-up or a hard fork. Or both. Both is good.