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Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

I switched to Firefox the morning they disabled uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 hours ago

Meanwhile ublock origin works fine in Fennec/Firefox Android.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Chrome? A browser that's easily replaceable with any other browser? Huh... Didn't see that one coming.

/S

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm saying this as a 2 year convert Firefox user: mostly easily replaceable. Sure, I can browse pretty much every page that I can on chrome. However, a few sites don't work the same way - sometimes because of the site's conscious decision, sometimes because of Firefox.

Take Facebook, for example. On desktop, I can't make voice calls anymore from the desktop site. For a while it was possible with non encrypted chats, but now pretty much all of them are encrypted, and FF is not compatible with that. I also can't watch h265 videos in my chats anymore. I'm still sticking with FF, but I just can't easily say that FF is just as good for everything (I'm still not going back to chrome).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm a 20-some year FF user and when it started you had to have IE as a backup because not everything was compatible. In the late 2000s through late 2010s everything worked everywhere, then with chromes dominance places have stopped testing or supporting certain things in FF and it feels like history is repeating itself. Unfortunately you need a chromium-based backup realistically for certain sites, but 99.5% of things work totally fine in FF.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

A lot of websites are broken on Firefox which is a shame. I can’t even scroll down on some news sites. What a shame…

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

LibreWolf if you want security, privacy and freedom

https://librewolf.net/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago

Fennec on Android

[–] [email protected] 262 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

If you're still using Chrome, do yourself a favour and install Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 189 points 14 hours ago (47 children)

Let's be honest: Everything that might be "worse" or "annoying" in Firefox for someone is not relevant in comparison to "no working adblocker available". A browser without adblock is unusable

[–] [email protected] 52 points 14 hours ago (13 children)

True, but if an adblocker no longer works on a specific browser, change your browser! I started using Netscape back in '94, and lost count on how many browsers I've tested and used in the past... Holy shit, 30+ years!!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

30+ years!

.....fuck off, '94 wasn't 30.... counts on fingers several times

.....Shit.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

It doesn’t sound right but it is. I think in ‘94 I was using Juno for email and internet. Shortly after that it was time to actually use one of the many AOL trial discs for service instead of a mini frisbee/ninja star.

Modem sounds, chat rooms, you’ve got mail. What a time to live!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I know... Jurassic Park is 33 years this year. It would be like watching a movie from the 60' when it was released.

We're old, friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

I've never hated my life more than right now...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I use Palemoon for the nostalgia but also because of the best theme around, Moonscape

Netscape will forever be my number one.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

What is everyone's thoughts on duckduckgo browser? I'm on grapheme os and have always used Firefox on my desktop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Why not use Firefox for android too?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago

duckduckgo browser is based on Chromium (as nearly every other "alternative" browser is) and therefore will use Manifest v3 and neuter uBlock.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 15 hours ago

Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

[–] [email protected] 48 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Firefox-based https://zen-browser.app/ if you want to get fancy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I've liked this one lately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for this!! I became spoiled with Arc’s UI, but it’s a Chrome based browser. This looks like it’s the same experience without the bs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. Zen is a bit newer and I’d say not quite as slick an experience yet, but it has come a long way in the last couple months and is getting very good

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