Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
Microsoft is now in the process of turning off Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge, such as uBlock Origin. However, not everything is lost at this point.
vivaldi has a built in ad and tracker blocker and it's not an american company :)
if you want a chromium browser, that is.
I’ll take news that doesn’t affect anyone on Lemmy for 100 Alex!
Who the fuck even uses Edge?
As a sysadmin in a Microsoft shop, it has a lot of management features that I like. Users generally love Chrome and hate Firefox (for some reason, I dunno) so Edge was a good compromise while it still supported ublock.
as far as a chromium skin goes, it's far better than chrome - especially with tab grouping, vertical tabs, and profile link handling.
Think about all offices, businesses and personal computers of people who don't deeply know about computers
I was kinda more referencing people on Lemmy. I know there are a lot of people that are clueless. I have several users that use Edge and it's a constant battle.
Between that and ads in the taskbar and Cortana, MS really hates their users.
However, not everything is lost at this point.
I won't lose much myself as I don't use Edge (and I'd rather not browse the web at all than be forced to look at ads) but it's clear there is a worrysome acceleration in the vanishing of the little control we have over the Internet and the way we are allowed to experience it.
Death to Microsoft
Watch how Firefox either gets sold or suddenly blocks all ad blocking addons.
Can you sell open source software..?
Yes. Even Stallman agreed with that. That’s the story of the GPL. But you’re talking of selling the Mozilla corporation which is different.
Yes you can. You need to buy out all the contributors and then you can do whatever you want. Prior versions remain open source, but they could change that going forward.
Not the code per se, but everything around it can be sold. You can sell access to the repository, support services, compilation services, development services, and so on. Mozilla could sell itself to some greasy investor and go full steam ahead on enshittification e.g embed ads in the browser, sell user browsing data, connect it to their own services, and so on.
It’s never a bad time to use Firefox. Been on it for many years (with a brief hiatus on chrome) and can’t recommend it enough.
Firefox just recently changed their tos removing the part where they said they don't sell your data. Will be searching for an alternative soon.
I would start reading up on the latest news about Firefox unfortunately
