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

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    40 minutes ago

    I tried browsing the internet without uBlock Origin. I hated it in 5 minutes. I’m not going back to there anytime again. If your browser does not support uBlock Origin, then I am not using it.

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    Guys, just FYI - other adblocks still work. 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.

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    4 hours ago

    That will totally lead to websites not supporting or even blocking Firefox. Together with uBlock capitulating against Facebook and all those age registration nonsense, I really am scared about the future of the web.

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      Meh if a site doesnt work on firefox I move on. I dont want all the shit that comes with visiting from chrome. If I cnt buy because of cookies or ads then I wont buy from them.

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      Other adblocks still work. 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.

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      That will totally lead to websites not supporting or even blocking Firefox.

      A lot of websites that really should be testing for this don’t work on Firefox.

      Absolute worst case Firefox can focus on feature parity(as it already has a lot of), and lie on the UserAgent

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      and reddit is aggressively try to force thier login popup at everytime, it hasnt rolled out completely. but people already reported.

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      If only that were true. To many people are addicted to google to ever give up chrome/chromium without a series of catastrophic fuckups from google.

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        Doesn’t help that Mozilla leadership is incompetent and doesn’t know what their core audience wants

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        4 hours ago

        Unfortunate how momentum like that works. I haven’t managed to degoogle myself yet but switching to firefox has created zero issues in my daily usage

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        Dude, the last thing I use Google for is YouTube and the ads are so much now on my tv and when listening to stories in my car that I’m seriously considering either paying for nebula or just snorting whatever I find under the sink for amusement.

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          uBlock origin works on YouTube and works in Firefox for Android

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    Switched to edge after chrome notified that adblock and other manifest v2 extensions will be blocked. Edge did the same thing recently. Now switched to Firefox. Used to use Firefox way back in the day then left it due to Chrome but now Firefox feels like home. Surprisingly l, it’s faster in some cases compared to Chrome. Not a single regret after switching. Adblock stays which is extremely important esp after youtube increased ads

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      1 hour ago

      Welcome back!

      Firefox evolves too, and there’s a lot of improvements both in the UI and under the hood. If you used Firefox before 2017, the difference should be especially prominent as they made a huge engine-level leap back then.

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        Yeah! Firefox after a certain time (pre 2017 as mentioned by u) felt slow and sluggish compared to chrome but now in some cases it’s better than chrome

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    7 hours 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 ?

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      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.

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

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        vivaldi recently disabled uBO and said it’d soon be unsupported. you can re-enable for now

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          I was using vivaldi and they were kind enough(seriously) to inform me that they don’t support ublock anymore maybe a week ago.

          Not sure about the reason but I think that it’s a technical thing the Google changed to deliberately make it easy to end ublock on a lot of browsers. Might not be the only reason(actual tech upgrades) but I believe it’s part of the reason since major conspiracies seem much more likely these days.

          Anyway, I switched back to Librewolf even though it can’t play x.265 files (jellyfin). Anything that kills the use of ublock is dead to me even though they have their own shitty, bullshit blocking solution. It’s never going to be as good as ublock edit grammar and shit

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          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.

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            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

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          LibreWolf has it pre-installed and is Open-source. It worked on waterfox an Open-source fork of Firefox, last time I tried.

          As for Vivaldi I guess use Brave instead.

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            Brave is the money generator of a far right hate group. Fuck Brendan Eich, fuck their ad replacement scam, fuck everything Brave.

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      Seriously. I clear my cookies on Firefox exit because I don’t want their shit on my computer if it isn’t needed.

      This would cause me to see them every single damn time.

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        Yeah, the user experience of “just wipe cookies on browser exit” is a lot better than “have a million prompts all over zillions of sites”.

        However, regarding “every single damn time”…some sites can have their “do you want cookies” popup just blocked by the Firefox I still don’t care about cookies addon. It’s not a solution for every site out there, but it’ll get a lot of them.

        It’s also possible to use another extension, Behind the Overlay on some sites. This does require a click, so manual action, but it tries to identify “pop-over” content that covers up the browser window and remove it with that click. It’s really intended as a more-general solution to “pop-over” stuff, but cookie pop-ups often take this form and can be dismissed.

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          have a million prompts all over zillions of sites”.

          I’m using Ghostery to automatically reject all of those. They pop-in and almost immediately disappear.

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          You can also just enable one of the “Cookie notices” lists in your ublock settings, no need for another extension.

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      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.

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        Now that MV2 is dead in chrome, i wouldn’t bet on YouTube ads being able to be blocked by UBlock Lite for much longer.

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          Pretty sure I’ve read months ago that the maintainers said they’ll try to support it as long as possible but at the moment v2 support is removed from the source code, they’ll won’t have the resources to add it back again.

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    Pihole. Doesn’t solve everything, but I’m currently blocking ads from just over a half million domains.

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      At this point if you’re not already using a DNS filter of some sort, I have no idea how you survive. I use opnsense with zenarmor for ad blocking and it works really well. Had this going for a long time so no need to try pihole yet. I also use uBlock on my browsers for YouTube and the like. And greyjay on my phone. And I use automation on my phone (if not my WiFi, engage wireguard). I don’t know how I’d stay sane without it all.

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      Got a good tutorial or hardware rec for me? I’ve been meaning to pihole for a while…

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        As for tutorial I think Pi-hole’s own documentation suffice though if you mean starting from server installation, that’s another thing. Definitely not hard but it would be nice if you know Linux to be comfortable in terminal.

        As for hardware, this netbook is basically my home server including Pi-hole: https://www.productindetail.com/pn/samsung-n150-plus

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    9 hours 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

    • 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.

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        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.

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        I’ve got 100tb getting filled. I’m ready. Ok in reality its closer to 60 tb after raid and I’m duplicating the important stuff across 2 devices. But that’s only about 5 tb. But I’m including lots of PDFs epubs and zims as important stuff. The rest is just media.

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    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.

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      In my experience even one of the platforms with moronic developers eventually fixed their Firefox support. I dunno if the surge in Linux users had anything to do with it or not, or if it was because I would browser there, make my payments fail then switch to the Falkon browser every single time.

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      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.

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        For a while I think it was Papa Johns, or Dominos, some pizza chain site didn’t work on Firefox. Worse than that though when I was in highschool I remember some school district stuff didn’t work on Firefox

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        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.

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        Nativia is a cross platform electron app that runs on your machine without network access and allows you to configure most of these keyboards. It’s also open source.