Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox

I love Firefox. Love it.

But I keep coming across sites that don't function properly with it. Is this Firefox's fault? No - Firefox follows standards nicely. But growing numbers of sites don't, and this is a big problem at a micro and macro level.

Chrome seems to have such a foothold that it is getting away with embrace/extend/extinguish and I think it's a very sad thing.

It blows my mind how many people do you not understand how essentially useless Chrome is now and how much it has changed.

Tbf every time is the best time to switch to Firefox

i've been on Firefox in the last 8 years. i don't even know what's going on in Chrome and other browsers lol.

Remember when Firefox started dealing damage to IE's insane monopoly, and then Chrome came along and shanked them both?

I hope Chrome finally eats dirt after basically becoming knockoff IE 2.

Literally every new HTTP standard is coming out of Google's dev team. That is not a good thing.

I’d largely like to agree. My main issue is as others have said, some websites don’t work on Firefox due to Chrome basically being the standard. It’s annoying. And I do think people should still switch and try their best to stop using Chrome. Because IF we could get to a point where Firefox has a larger audience than it already has, the problem may end up stopping due to developers having more of a need to make sure their stuff is cross compatible with other browsers.

Am I the only one concerned Google may try to pull a fast one and block Mozilla from using the Widevine DRM?

If you are concerned about things like PWAs like I was, try it out anyway. PWAs require a bit more setup, but are a lot more flexible in Firefox. For example, PWAs with http connections have a huge banner in Chrome, and just an icon in Firefox. Everything I've noticed is that firefox is just as snappy as Chrome

It's weird how lots of devs treat chrome as a standard, even though when developing I have a lot more issues with Chrome browsers than Firefox browsers

Firefox is my daily driver, but oooh how I miss native tab groups like they have on most chromium browsers right in the tab bar. Extensions like simple tab groups just hit differently and are inferior...

It would be nice to spend one day on Lemmy without seeing a half dozen posts telling me to switch to Firefox nor 100 comments on every post that's even vaguely browser-adjacent about how ever since they switched to Firefox their life has been nothing but joy and rainbows

The people who know what UBO or a firefox even is is the vast minority. Google could single handedly completely fuck over the free internet and a majority still wouldn't give a fuck as long as they get that sweet sweet one click convinence. The average consumer who plays on their phone and tappy taps on their laptop have zero clue how their devices actually work, or that there are more privacy friendly options. They just want their shit to work, privacy and daddy google violating their basic human rights be damned.

Oh and also some websites make it a huge pain in the ass if you aren't using chromium. I think its a bit of a conspiracy but could be wrong.

Also stop shilling firefox and start shilling Librewolf

This "article" is an ad lol

The irony is real

Any numbers from Mozilla about increase in usage or anything?

uBlock Origin

Why settle for less anyway, Firefox all the way

I switched from Chrome and it was seamless. After a few weeks I didn't notice any negative difference.

Without this fiasco, i would've still use chrome. Yeah, now i use firefox.

It's a shame that Firefox is still heavily reliant on Google. It's not chrome but we really do need some competition in this space that doesn't feed the monster and is also not safari lol.

While I largely agree with the options that Tuta provides, I think the article could've been more succinct and to the point if they condensed all the Firefox forks like PaleMoon and WaterFox under one category. Also, I'm not sure if Brave should be on this list, not just because of their Chromium foundation but also because of their use of cryptocurrency, something I consider very suspicious and unsustainable. Finally, I question whether DuckDuckGo should be on the list. True, they are more private when compared to Google and all, but aren't they limited to what they can block through their contract with Microsoft? I remember hearing/reading something about that.

why the Freenet logo and not I2P? Freenet is not designed with privacy in mind, unlike I2P which literally stands for the Invisible Internet Project.

The best time was always.

Or you can DNS level blocking + NewPipe(SponsorBlock)

Last I checked, Firefox had also been switching to Manifest v3 because they're also combating the tide of add-ons that pretend to do something useful, but actually steal your information. They asked uBlock at least a few times how they could build Manifest v3 in a way that'd be compatible. Instead of the browser asking about each URL, thereby giving the add-on access to personal information, uBlock could tell the browser what to block. uBlock's answer was always, "No. That's not good enough. Give the add-on access to URLs." It seemed to me like every time uBlock was approached, they turned to news sites to complain and IIR, the feature that would have given uBlock some functionality was removed from v3 because if nobody's going to use it, why build it?

I wonder, now that uBlock has conflated the discussion of, "How much should extensions be able to see and modify URLs you're visiting?", with, "v3 is a war on ad blockers!", how quickly Firefox will move forward with v3, if at all.

pushed up glasses

It motivated me to finally set up pi hole in my old raspberry pi I wasnt using, so there's that

Considering, the mobile browser also has addons and will gain hundreds more in a few months. It's a no-brainer.

In my former job, I had no choice but use Chrome due to work rules. If I couldn't have installed uBlock at the time, it would have killed me. So I hope for people like me, there's at least an adblocker that has a small chance of working in Chrome.

I use Firefox but there are web apps that just plain do not test on it. Office 365 is one of those and Word is basically non functional...more than normal.

I like how they mention Internet Explorer.

for anyone wondering, there's already a manifest v3 version of ublock origin available from the same developer.

I haven't been using chrome ever since they remove AdNauseam from the web store with no justifiable reason.

They just took it off and kept it that way because there wasn't sufficient backlash.

I'm trying to make the switch to Firefox, but I'm running into some issues. The main one being, I travel internationally a lot for work and rely heavily on chrome automatically translating every web page I visit. Is there a way to have this on both my desktop and mobile (android)? When I look at the available extensions there are like 15 available... Thankfully one of them is uBlock Origin

I like Librewolf better

Is that moon a browser?

haha what a cool recurring post

thank you comment section, lemmy is so obnoxious when it comes to firefox ill be going with something chromium based soon now out of spite

I've started making the switch. The only thing that's holding me back fully is the google search function. I just don't get as accurate results on Firefox as I do on Chrome

You're telling me people actually still use chrome?

I like Firefox as default browser, but if i need something more secure i choose FireDragon

I would love to use Firefox, would switch in an instant but the browser feels so barebones. I'm using Vivaldi and that's how I think Firefox should have been, tons of options and features. Don't want to install extensions that might be sold to the highest bidder.

I don't want to

https://www.vidlii.com/watch?v=njL4HaoY8lW

As a user of Seamonkey - which you'd know as Mozilla, the app that Mozilla the company ditched for being 'too hard' - I have to say no. While I trust they're not as evil as Google, I don't trust them to do the hard part of actual software maintenance.

Lol.is it actually blocked in chrome?

Why Firefox? there are so many other options

Nope. Brave with its builtin adblocker is more than enough. I'd dare to say that any browser with builtin adblocker is going to be more than enough.

p.s.:

"Yeah, but the guy donate 1000 $ to some anti-LGBT org years ago", "yeah, but the referral stuff", more crap bullshit, etc... Don't care. It's fucking browser, not a religion.

What is with the almost constant ads for Firefox on this platform? It seems every other day I'm blasted with some "Chrome bad get Firefox" article.

I get it, Firefox is great, we know. Beating a dead horse a bit at this point though.

Yeah, lets switch to questionable ethics company number 2 and shady finances.

• https://12bytes.org/the-mozilla-monster/
• https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla

I used to use Firefox as my primary browser and sometimes even recommended it, but after all those articles I started digging a bit and doing research on what the browser calls and does and I was bit horrified. What I really don't like about this Mozilla situation is that tech people tend to see them as the "all savior Mozilla" while, in fact, they’re full of shit.

If you do care about freedom and your privacy use LibreWolf or Ungoogled Chromium.

There's so many post about Firefox. Mozilla should throw some money at Lemmy devs for free marketing.