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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We’ve been anticipating it for years, and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.

Now that it is finally happening, many seem to be oddly resigned to the idea that Google is taking away the best and most powerful ad content blocker available on any web browser today, with one article recommending people set up a DNS based content blocker on their network 😒 – instead of more obvious solutions.

I may not have blogged about this but I recently read an article from 1999 about why Gopher lost out to the Web, where Christopher Lee discusses the importance of the then-novel term “mind share” and how it played an important part in dictating why the web won out. In my last post, I touched on the importance of good information to democracies – the same applies to markets (including the browser market) – and it seems to me that we aren’t getting good information about this topic.

This post is me trying to give you that information, to help increase the mind share of an actual alternative. Enjoy!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't Vivaldi have built-in blockers?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

You can always keep Chromium installed for the odd site that doesn’t work in Firefox (my daily driver). I do web development and test in every browser and I almost never encounter sites or features that don’t work in FF. The only one I can recall is something in the Azure Portal, probably because Microsoft wants you using Edge.

Typically, Safari is the laggard and any developer worth their salt would make sure their site works on iPad and iPhone. When a new web standard is released, usually Chromium supports it first but even then, not always. And web developers usually don’t use features that aren’t implemented across the board yet. I know I go to caniuse.com before I use something fresh out the oven.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Finally made the switch to Firefox just 2 days ago. Great so far.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

No, HVEC / H.265 codec support so no modern 4K security camera or plex/jellyfin etc high quality video support.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (6 children)

According to caniuse.com, it works now in the Nightly builds and can be enabled in other builds via the media.wmf.hevc.enabled pref in about:config.

I use Firefox Dev Edition and I think it’s enabled there. But either way, you can enable it on stable.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (11 children)

plex/jellyfin etc high quality video support

H265 isn't the only option there. AV1 is great and fully supported by Jellyfin (and I imagine Plex?)

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

be sure to check out the extensions, there's several that are game changers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (11 children)

What are some of the game changing extensions?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ad nauseum

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 7 months ago (3 children)

We kept Firefox alive for you all these years. You're welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Switch to Firefox

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or a fork :)

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or a spoon

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (6 children)

And my axe!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Honest question here, since chromium (vs chrome) is open source, can someone not fork an older version, or remove the new code blocking ublock?

I mean i assume it cant be done, but i dont know why

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.

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

It kills the full version of uBlock but there is a lite version that has fewer functions as well.