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uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to Firefox as Chrome flags the extension (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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~~https://www.neowin.net/news/ublock-origin-developer-recommends-switching-to-ublock-lite-as-chrome-flags-the-extension/~~

EDIT: Apologies. Updated with a link to what gorhill REALLY said:

Manifest v2 uBO will not be automatically replaced by Manifest v3 uBOL[ight]. uBOL is too different from uBO for it to silently replace uBO -- you will have to explicitly make a choice as to which extension should replace uBO according to your own prerogatives.

Ultimately whether uBOL is an acceptable alternative to uBO is up to you, it's not a choice that will be made for you.

Will development of uBO continue? Yes, there are other browsers which are not deprecating Manifest v2, e.g. Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 6 months ago (14 children)

On the same day Google was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act...

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I only use chrome when checking my Gmail account. Brave is my go-to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Guess you get to find out if this will be effecting all of chromium or just chrome......

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Brave has added a feature to explicitly enable MV2 apps and install uBo directly from Brave settings. You can also install uMatrix and Adguard MV2 versions also.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Or you could just Avoid chromium browsers and help the browser landscape from becoming a sea of chrome.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Brave is forked from Chromium so hypothetically they could maintain V2 but they'd need their own store as they currently rely on Googles

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Guess we will see if Brave is all talk or not in the coming years.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I just got firefox yesterday, cause I noticed youtube started baking unskippable ads into their site.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I recommend switching to another browser like Firefox or Librewolf.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

hello, i have chosen to value your opinion above my own based on very shaky reasoning i will not be sharing

I abandoned chrome for being too RAM-hungry when im playing games w the browser open

i abandoned Internet Explorer for being too slow

and i abandoned firefox for being too bloated and sluggish, but that was like 2010 and things change

im currently using Opera but why do you choose firefox over its contemporaries?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Using firedragon for desktop (Linux) and between iceraven and mull for mobile

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I love Librewolf currently but I worry it's going to stray too much from what it originally was like Waterfox and others ended up doing, and then end up randomly breaking compatibility with certain plugins or introducing other issues.

Right now, Librewolf is the best way to experience Firefox. Will that still be the case in 5, 10, 15 years? That remains to be seen. I hope it's still the best way to experience Firefox years from now. Having to change browsers every so often does suck tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The best action ublock origions devs can take is drop support for chromium based browsers and retract ublock lite from the chrome webstore.

I was hopefull for something more than just a wiki page on github. adding a banner to chrome's add-on menu is way more powerful and far more reaching than what they did

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

i crave decisiveness like that. it would make me so happy if that sort of behavior became the norm.

too many corpos getting away with murder because they are more convenient than their competitors or because switching is too hard

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ive gotten almost my entire friend group using either the same fork as me or the original firefox, they all used chrome before. all because google was dumb enough to overstep some peoples boundaries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

if you don't mind, which fork are you using? I got my sister to switch to firefox too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

not the original commenter but FLOORP, BABYYYY!!! let's go let's get this floorp action come on floorp is the best reign supreme for a thousand years floorp woooooo