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“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

#101
post #53

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> 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.

Huh, yeah, turning on "Reduce motion" does indeed disable bounce scroll in Firefox. Definitely a strange choice on their part! (It doesn't affect it in other apps.)

> I changed my system settings, as I don’t like the default speed and acceleration

I see, that could make sense, if Safari was honoring those changes and Firefox wasn't, in some way. I've got mostly stock settings (slightly bumped up speed and three-finger drag) and it feels spot-on.

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#102
post #89

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IMO Firefox on an Android is better than anything you can get on iOS. It fully supports uBlock Origin! I also use a Pixel phone, though I use LineageOS so I feel less tied to Google

I find firefox on android unusable because it has this awful, non-native scroll behavior. On android I use either Brave or Samsung Browser.

Check out https://www.bromite.org/, it's a android chromium fork with adblocking built in like brave but without the crypto stuff. Also has support for userscripts!

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#103
post #31

Tangent but let's stop referring to it as a mere ad blocker, it's a content blocker - it's even a very useful and impactful accessibility tool in that capacity. ADHD sucks and I have a lot to thank to these types of tools for acting as my "crutches" that allowed me get where I am today.

100%. This is an a11y issue, not just about protecting privacy.

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#104
post #43

I 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…

> 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 Huh? I'm going to switch to Firefox the second uBlock Origin stops working on Chrome. Otherwise I'll continue to use Chrome because it's a better browser (for me). I don't think I'm some rare minority here.

> Huh? I'm going to switch to Firefox the second uBlock Origin stops working on Chrome.

uBlock Origin already blocks a lot better on Firefox than on Chrome.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#105
post #49

I 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…

I was fully in the Google world prior to gorhill's posts on manifest v3 as a direct result the only thing I have left is a pixel phone, which will be going with the new iPhone (and in the meantime my entire family has been 'helpfully' migrated too) I may be up the extreme end of the distribution, but this sort of grassroots push is what dethroned IE, and the resultant loss of control of the web eliminated Microsoft's…

Not clear to me why you'd do this, the Manifest v3 changes resulted from Apple's adblocker approach using a list and trumpeting it as Privacy(tm).

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#106
post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO Firefox on an Android is better than anything you can get on iOS. It fully supports uBlock Origin! I also use a Pixel phone, though I use LineageOS so I feel less tied to Google

I find firefox on android unusable because it has this awful, non-native scroll behavior. On android I use either Brave or Samsung Browser.

What do you mean by non-native scroll behavior? I'm asking seriously, never noticed anything.

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#107
post #43

I 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…

> 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 Huh? I'm going to switch to Firefox the second uBlock Origin stops working on Chrome. Otherwise I'll continue to use Chrome because it's a better browser (for me). I don't think I'm some rare minority here.

I don't think you are either, but like the rest of that group , I expect that you'll keep using Chrome anyway. Because it's not like uBO will stop working, it'll just be a bit worse.

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#108
post #100
post #6

I 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.

Why are you willing to accept an inferior adblocker, instead of switching to another browser that maintains support for fully featured adblockers?

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#109
post #107
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 Huh? I'm going to switch to Firefox the second uBlock Origin stops working on Chrome. Otherwise I'll continue to use Chrome because it's a better browser (for me). I don't think I'm some rare minority here.

I don't think you are either, but like the rest of that group , I expect that you'll keep using Chrome anyway. Because it's not like uBO will stop working, it'll just be a bit worse.

I dunno. The new version does not strongly affect end users (according to the devs) but there is a psychological barrier around switching from the full version to the minus version, which I think will cause me to switch to Firefox.

Even if the new version works now, Google are clearly going to tighten the vice over the next few years.

Re: “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3

#110
post #3

How 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?

Personally,that will be the motivation I needed to switch to Firefox on my main computer.

So... thanks Google I guess ?

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