Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
Except Firefox and its forks, are there any other browsers that are not chromium based?
but brave still does…it has special support for manifest v2 extensions that are no longer supported in Chromium browsers.
settings -> extensions->Manifest V2 extensions
and just enable the extensions you want like ublock origin.
…for now.
I use Helium which is a degoogled chromium? What does this mean for me?
Unless they specifically develop a way to run manifest2 applications, you don’t get to use the full uBlock Origin experience
Why do people in these threads always act like uBlock is the only adblocker out there? It’s true that MV3 nerfed adblockers in general, but not nearly as much as what I’ve heard about uBlock Lite. The one I’ve always been using hasn’t really changed functionally at all from what I can tell.
Like, I see some people act like Chromium just doesn’t have usable adblockers at all anymore. That’s just not true.
It’s not about uBlock anymore. It’s about Chrome and Google. A free space should be a safe spot for everybody, not for corporations and politicians.
Have you found one that supports peered blocklists?
It’s not ready yet but there’s the ladybird project that has a lot of promise. I appreciate FF a lot but their code base is a mess, they need a modern rewrite of their browser engine. That’s why we’re getting all these chromium based browsers, it’s just a better base to build off of.
From their own monthly updates where they compared their progress with other browsers Servo also seemed to be coming along nicely, although for now it seems to be just a browser engine and not an actual browser.
Sooner is better then latter because they’re already losing the adoption war. An internet where web developers write their sites for chromium specifically is a bad situation and it’s happening slowly. FF needs more adoption and spins who can fit niches they don’t. FF spins just haven’t been as successful as chromium spins so far. Like waterfox vs brave.
First IronFox, then LibreWolf and now ladybird… a definitive alternative to FF for at least 5 years would be nice…
I’m not saying taking gecko and modifying it is impossible, just far less pleasant than taking blink/V8. Ladybird is interesting because it’s a completely independent project from chromium or FF with some really nice ideas. I hope to see it succeed but seems to be moving a little too slowly as a project to be a serious contender. That’s all to say it’s far easier to make chromium based browsers than FF based browsers. FF has needed a rewrite for like a decade already.
https://vger.to/lemmy.zip/comment/28113454
Don’t get me wrong. We do indeed live in a dystopia. But Mv3 ad blockers seem to be effective–for now at least.
They “get the job done,” perhaps even provably, but:
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It’s less flexible for fighting anti-adblocking.
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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.
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Voyager-free link: https://lemmy.zip/comment/28113454
Use librewolf . I use librewolf and Brave browser if needed .
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.
do you have better alternative chromium based but privacy friendly?
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.
May I present to you the hypocrisy of Lemmy?
Boo proprietary software, boo crypto brosBut brave? Insert spongebob wallet meme
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.
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.
when it came to credit cards, i decided against trusting brave and its attention tracking crypto currency fabrication. tried edge to that point too. Ditched it a few days later. had a cult feel as does many softwares. firefox can’t fill in a cc form so not thrilled with status quo. if a site won’t work with my browser+ad-blocking tweaks, fuck that site. brave wanted to be a new crypto currency and felt like a pump and dump waiting to happen. IE always tried to use feature lock-in to force loyalty. run away. there’s always lynx.
but ublock as given up on facebook blocking in the future, and reddit’s forced app/login is trying to bypass , will bypass ublock eventually
reddit
Uh, what website do you think this is, here?
not reddit.
Tbh nothing of value was lost. Once a site is sufficiently shit, blocking ads is just polishing a turd. I commend them for keeping it up this long.
Every boardroom has their price.
Someday.
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.
A misleading title shilling for Firefox. Brave has full support and it won’t even remove it nor does it actually need it as it has its own in-house fully hard coded adblock that doesn’t need Google services whatsoever.
Still a chromium based browser though.
How many braveshillings did you get for this comment?
Sometimes I think it was a mistake to let the programs we primarily use to view text and images become bloated virtual machines that execute megabytes of arbitrary code with every page load.
I was on dial-up internet well after most people had moved to dedicate higher speed connections. It was very obvious then that websites were just piling more crap in and I was thinking about how much of a problem that trend was going to be for our hardware. That wasn’t even considering how much those companies would be dipping into our time, sanity, and privacy.
Well, like many other things: it’s not so much a “we” as it is a “them”.
But maybe we should reboot the whole navigation thing?
Cool, but why did they have to name it that?
It came before bard was renamed to gemini. Kind of like people who were referred to as Isis before you know, Isis.
Oh. I don’t get your example, by the way (who those original “people” were).
If it goes… I don’t know what I’ll do.
Go out and touch grass probably.
Get a hobby.
Perfect my molotov recipe.
air/land/sea drones for ordinance delivery
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
never knew they were two words. thaanks
Come on, the meme format requires you to put another normal sentence at the end right after the provocative one lol.
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.
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!
Does opera not support ublock?
opera is ass anyway
It’s been Chromium based for ages now. Meaning they’ll likely eventually stop supporting manifest V2 too, unless Google makes it easy for them to keep supporting it.
It’s a bad take, open source projects can be spun out to whatever branch you want and not needing a host support to keep it going…that’s why browser like brave can have its own hard coded adblock without relying on extensions like ublock and things like manifest V2 and V3 support, as it doesn’t need it as it has nothing to do with Google other than using their open source engine.
Why would you use a browser owned by a Chinese consortium
Evil Chinese company as opposed to an evil American one?
donated for a new cubical poster. w/e year that was. was new and better for a while.
Happy with Librewolf. I can’t imagine using my browser everyday if I don’t have a good adblocker on it like uBO.
