Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun

Between Manifest V3 and the Play Integrity API, Google is really trying hard to kill the open internet and android.

Firefox is the solution people, make the switch.

Switch to firefox.

I feel like I have seen this news since forever, I am happily living my life with Firefox... Although the android mobile really needs some love.

Firefox with uBlock Origin add-on will sort many chrome issues.

And my phaseout of Chrome is complete. My two browsers are now Firefox and Edge. Bit surprised at the latter tbh but it seems reasonably adequate as a secondary browser.

Stopped using that garbage browser a couple of weeks ago. Hardened Firefox ftw. Just using stock Firefox isn't enough if you're concerned about your privacy on the internet btw. If all you're looking for is an ad free experience tho, then stock Firefox should be enough.

Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker browser. Firefox fully supports ad blockers like uBlock Origin. LibreWolf removes all the Mozilla nonsense like Pocket, their new advertising crap, sponsored sites, etc. and comes with uBO preinstalled. There's also an official Lemmy community for it: !librewolf@lemmy.ml

This was published last month btw (Oct 15, 2024)

Is it just me, or have I seen like 6-7 of these posts at this point?

Is duck duck go browser safe?

Check out Vivaldi. Yes it's still Chromium. Consider reading the link.

"Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker"

No. Time to switch to Firefox or derivative such as Librewolf.

Chrome only exists to download Firefox.

Google Chrome's uBlock Origin phaseout has begun

My phaseout of Chrome was complete a long time ago.

I'm glad I don't use that piece of shit.

Firefox or nothing.

I have always used Firefox on all my devices, except for one: the Chromebook I was forced to buy because of compatibility with my college's test proctoring spyware.

On that device, not only did uBlock Origin quit working the other day, but today Chrome even kept disabling uBlock Lite with the error message that "This extension reloaded itself too frequently". It could be some kind of legitimate bug, but it sure feels a lot like foul play on Google's part.

Chrome is the adblock-block? You might have outblocked me today, but I'll firefox you away!

I don't understand why all these chrome derivatives and firefox don't just band together and extend manifest v3 with some vendored standardised extension that addresses the limitations.

Browsers do that for CSS and JavaScript features already. An extension could just check if the browser supports the "unlimited filters" option and use it if its available.

I have never researched it but heard that the permissions of manifest v3 are much better for privacy.

I am in favor of removing manifest v2 if the vendored extension becomes a reality.

Browsers already have too much complexity, lines of code and feature creep.

It's totally ok. I've phased Chrome out in the beginning of the year already.

the company said it would start turning off Manifest V2 extensions

...in time for Black Friday & the holiday sales?

I frequently forget that chrome is installed on my phone. The only time I'm forced to use it is about once a year when I order Papa John's Pizza takeout. Their checkout page doesn't seem to work in any other browser.

I've been dual welding browsers since chrome came out. The second they started talking about deprecating manifest 2, I test drove Vivaldi and Brave. Now they're set up as my second.

I tried to convert over to Libwolf, But it absolutely massacres my passkeys.

I plan to main Firefox until they do something stupid which I think is inevitable with their recent statements.

I'm just hoping that by the time The other Firefox shoe drops there will be something else viable on the market. I don't know how long Brave and Vivaldi can hold out with chromium changing underneath them

We got here by using their softslop... only way to kill them is now to move on to different merchants. deny parasite the profits.

Gaming 101

I stopped using adblockers and simply set the entire operating system to use Mullvad's DNS over HTTPS/TLS, specifically the adblock.dns.mullvad.net option. It doesn't have all the other uBlock features, but all ads are blocked in all browsers.

Oct 15, 2024

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Welcome all you shiny new Firefox users. Get a cup of a hot beverage and enjoy your freedom.

It'd be great if Cloudflare sites supported Firefox. No matter what I do, it always gives me the "prove you're a human" checkbox loop.

I recently started using Brave Browser as I noticed YouTube ads were starting to seep through randomly. Seems alright no far.

Once this starts affecting me is lonely what will push me to other Crowder's I've never felt the need to leave chrome. I have a lot of Google related services and products so it would be hypocritical of me to draw an arbitrary line at browsers but not the rest, because personally i don't care about tracking and whatnot cause it's mostly just to serve targeted ads and I don't see them for the most part so I don't care, gimme all your cookies. But if I stay seeing ads again more prominently and there's no workaround, then I'm out. Moving on.