That naming convention is an absolute stroke of genius. Not enough to get sued, but enough to convey to millions that they are using an intentionally crippled product.
“UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
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Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can also use Brave, which implements its own native adblocker and isn't impacted by Manifest v3.
Do you mean that particular adblocker is not impacted or is Brave going to maintain support for the APIs dropped by Manifest v3?
Brave's adblocker is internal and written in Rust.
https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
I'm pretty sure it's also faster than any adblock extension like uBlock.
Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#93I approve (of both the release and the name). I see plenty of folks in here lamenting this release at all - in the hopes that the lack of it will push folks to Firefox. It won't. Those who care about this are already on Firefox, and frankly - Firefox isn't going to be the answer here (to be clear, this is opinion). I'm also not thrilled at manifest v3, although for very different reasons than the adblocking limitatio…
> Those who care about this are already on Firefox I don't think that's true. Many, many more people would care immensely if they were suddenly deprived of good adblocking on Chrome.
I plan to switch to Firefox if this happens. Some like me are just too lazy to do it before we need to!
Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#94How many people use adblockers? Is there any chance manifest v3 will lead to enough users abandoning Googles Chrome to build a community around an open alternative, like we did when we abandoned IE for Firefox all those years ago?
Adblockers are an existential threat to Google. If any appreciable percentage of the population started using a browser that allowed adblockers, Google (and Facebook, and Twitter, and Reddit, and...) would do everything within their power to block that browser from all the web properties they control (this is not an exaggeration: everything within their power , because the alternative is the death of their entire bus…
They would have to be pretty stealth and smooth to pull this off because that kind of behavior would attract even more scrutiny from regulators. They don't operate in a vacuum.
Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope, not here. No bouncing, maybe due to 'no animation settings' in display. Also, scrolling feels different. Different speed, different acceleration. Still doesn't feel native at all.
> Nope, not here. No bouncing, maybe due to 'no animation settings' in display Where's that setting? > Different speed, different acceleration. Huh, interesting! Are you mouse or trackpad? I'm comparing side-by-side on trackpad and I can't detect any difference. If I flick the trackpad at the same speed they will both land roughly in the same place on the page, and the variation, as near as I can tell, is because of…
Reduce Motion in display or accessibility settings I think it’s called.
I’m on M1. Just updated FF from the menu.
I’m using the trackpad, but again, I changed my system settings, as I don’t like the default speed and acceleration.
Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#96I approve (of both the release and the name). I see plenty of folks in here lamenting this release at all - in the hopes that the lack of it will push folks to Firefox. It won't. Those who care about this are already on Firefox, and frankly - Firefox isn't going to be the answer here (to be clear, this is opinion). I'm also not thrilled at manifest v3, although for very different reasons than the adblocking limitatio…
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Maybe some of us are sick of Firefox fans taking this moralizing tone that we're somehow "damaging the cause" by simply speaking our mind when we disagree with your assessment. That doesn't make me a google shill, nor cynical. Just tired of the nonsense.
Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#97No cosmetic filtering might still tip me over into switching to Firefox.
Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't tell people to refrain from posting their analysis here, especially when their point is both clear and very logical. It would be better and much more productive if you would explain why you think that Firefox has a bright path ahead given all we know about it's management, strategy, corporate practices, and frankly raw figures about new installs / usage over the past 5 years.
Switching browsers is not some herculean task. Its like 15 minutes of "work" and a day or two of getting used to it. And your ad-blocker works.
It sounds simple enough but it's not so easy actually. I found myself spending some time doing it, and there were enough annoyances to abandon switching to firefox.
I really want to like it, it just doesn't click for me. There is just no practical incentive at the moment to switch (for me), just the more idealistic ones about privacy and so on.
Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#99I approve (of both the release and the name). I see plenty of folks in here lamenting this release at all - in the hopes that the lack of it will push folks to Firefox. It won't. Those who care about this are already on Firefox, and frankly - Firefox isn't going to be the answer here (to be clear, this is opinion). I'm also not thrilled at manifest v3, although for very different reasons than the adblocking limitatio…
> Those who care about this are already on Firefox I don't think that's true. Many, many more people would care immensely if they were suddenly deprived of good adblocking on Chrome.
> if they were suddenly deprived of good adblocking on Chrome.
Ok - but that won't happen (at least not yet, given the m3 api available, who knows what google will do long term).
The majority of users won't genuinely notice any difference between an adblocker running on m3 vs m2, and plenty of companies are going to make them.
My point is that despite the push back from the UBO dev (and I sort of agree - this does limit some capabilities, although not nearly as much as he claims) M3 is absolutely not going to kill the adblocker extensions available in chrome.
It just makes them... slightly minus. Which is why I think the name is a good call. I don't approve of the direction google is going, but this is not the deal breaker for any sort of public audience - it's just a talking point among the tech literate.
Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
#100I think uBlock Origin providing a manifest-v3 compatible extension would be a net negative for the community. As it will help more people accept the status-quo and accept a mediocre state of ad blocking, instead of switching to Firefox
If uBlock doesn't provide a compatible extension or if their extension is worse than possible I'd likely just switch to the best alternative which will pop-up. I imagine most users will do the same.