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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by saghm »

> But Firefox is one of the few web browsers remaining that isn’t based on Chromium, and it’s now the only major browser to still support uBlock Origin. Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo—the two other major non-Chromium browsers out there—support uBlock Origin

Does anyone here use DuckDuckGo browser? I've honestly never heard of anyone using it, so I'm pretty surprised to see it categorized as a "major browser". I already basically think of Firefox users (which includes myself) as a pretty tiny minority, so I'm not sure how much smaller you can really get while still being "major".

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by rasz »

rwz wrote: post #67
deweywsu wrote: post #61

It is possible to write your own extension and still use it in Chrome as long as it's not bundled. It would be a huge pain to get the source for uBlock origin and implement it locally yourself, but it might be worth the pain to block ads.

The original uBO relies on Manifest V2, the API Chrome no longer supports. It's impossible to run full UBO (not Lite MV3 version) on current versions on Chrome.

>It's impossible to run full UBO (not Lite MV3 version) on current versions on Chrome.

Current version of Chrome seems to be 152.0.7977.39 released August 14, 2026.

August 14, 2026 Chromium 152.0.7977.38 based vivaldis napshot https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/address-field-calculator-an... has this in patch notes:

"[Extensions] Re-enable and extend Manifest V2 extension support for the time being (VB-130324)"

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by brewdad »

ipsum2 wrote: post #111
hackernud3s wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave blocks those ads anyway so no point in Ublock, maybe that's why it's left out. It does inject it's own ads though, and then there's all the crypto nonsense.

Brave adblocking breaks some websites that uBlock Origin doesn't.

Lately I’ve had better luck with Brave than with FF and UBO, at least one my various banking sites.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by benatkin »

culi wrote: post #202
benatkin wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I seem to remember TamperMonkey being on there but not ViolentMonkey, which I didn't agree with. However, I see neither of them on there. Both are available but not recommended. I wonder what is going on with that.

Probably just resources. Mozilla has to vet each update to give them the "recommended" badge and so they probably focus on the most popular extensions

They should have vetted ViolentMonkey instead of TamperMonkey the last time around.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by 3371 »

swed420 wrote: post #58
GeekyBear wrote: post #21

Firefox is also the only browser that vets uBlock's code on every update to make sure the developer hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension. They don't do it for every extension, but they do so for a wide selection of popular options. > Recommended extensions differ from other extensions that are regularly reviewed by Firefox staff in that they are curated extensions that meet the highest standards of s…

> Firefox is also the only browser that vets uBlock's code on every update to make sure the developer hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension. They could save themselves the trouble if Firefox simply baked in its own ad-blocking, but since Google basically owns them, we all know that will never happen. Ladybird browser is going to be awesome.

People believe ublock because it's reputable and not affiliated with browsers IMO.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by EbNar »

hackernud3s wrote: post #98
Aldo_MX wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave surely is a major browser with 100+M MAU, not too distant from Firefox with 150+M MAU.

Brave blocks those ads anyway so no point in Ublock, maybe that's why it's left out. It does inject it's own ads though, and then there's all the crypto nonsense.

Ads on Brave are opt-in (and not embedded on webpages anyway) and the "crypto nonsense" is a way for them to try to stay afloat without having to accept money from Google and the likes.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by EbNar »

rwz wrote: post #59
fragmede wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Peter Thiel gave them some money, there's some secret backdoor code that's sending all your information to Palantir?

It's quite likely that Brave itself collects data on your usage and shares at least some of it with Palantir. This isn't such an outrageous assumption to make here.

There's no need to make assumptions. The source code is out there. Please, show us the relevant commits which do what you said.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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Post by matheusmoreira »

colordrops wrote: post #138
matheusmoreira wrote: post #43

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> Then they had to make up some reasons to justify that Hate to be the one to defend Google here, but the reasons weren't that unreasonable. I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data. The declarative API idea is pretty good. It's just that uBlock Origin is so insanely useful, important and trusted, it should get full access to the entire browser regardless. Honestly, it should…

Don't defend them then. Do you believe the same should be true of your operating system? If not, then it shouldn't be true of the browser either.

> Do you believe the same should be true of your operating system?

Yes, and I have actually started virtualizing everything inside my computer because of that belief. I don't want random software touching my trusted host.

"Random software" is currently defined as anything outside the official repositories of my Linux distribution of choice. I don't want to share a home directory with such things. I don't want to share a user and its permissions, I don't even want to share a kernel with them.

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