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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (www.androidpolice.com)

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe we're thinking about this wrong. Maybe we should all start running plugins that just load whatever ads that show up in the background hundreds of times without showing them to us. Every viewer is thousands upon thousands of impressions and click through rates become absolutely miserable. We can make the ads worthless or maybe even make them cost a significant amount of money to host.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

AdNauseam does this to a lesser degree. I'm not sure how effective it is.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought they already killed it? They keep killing it multiple times.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hoping that Vivaldi is going to hold off somehow - perhaps with their built-in ad blocker. And before you say "switch to Firefox", I'll say I'm not gonna, at least not until I see native mouse gestures implemented and working everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I made the switch from Vivaldi back to Firefox recently. I loved Vivaldi, but I'm happy with Firefox too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fair enough. All I'm saying is that mouse gestures are so much ingrained in my muscle memory that their absence in native capacity (and reliance on extensions for that) is a show-stopper for me.

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

Lmao get rekt, I'm on a gecko based browser.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

I'm currently using safari on a MacBook. Way more power efficient than chrome.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Been using Firefox for quite a time now! What are the other alternatives?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Brave, Librewolf (didn't test yet)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ladybird is working really hard to become good enough for daily drive. Will they succeed? Idk. How long will it take? Idk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is that Firefox alternative?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Not right now.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like time to find a new browser!

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

May I interest you in browsers based on FireFox?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

why not Firefox itself?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Someone who repackages/patches free software has different incentives than upstream. So generally speaking, derivative browsers are more privacy friendly, have better features, etc.

That's not to say that upstream isn't important. It absolutely is! It's just that derivatives are generally better.