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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 kakacik »

fouc wrote: post #237
tombert wrote: post #206

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Can’t speak for all users, but at least as of about six months ago, there appears to be a bug in Firefox in NixOS where the shader cache doesn’t appear to be able to write properly, and as such video acceleration doesn’t work. It became most evident when I was trying to watch 360-degree videos in Immich. Entirely possible that this is an issue specific to NixOS or my machine, but because of that issue I switched over…

the obvious thing to do is keep using firefox as your daily driver, and load up the other browser as needed for the video etc. I'm being tongue-in-cheek here because it seems most people just give up on safari/firefox if one thing doesn't work and go to some chromium-based browser as their default driver. That's sad.

Thats what I do - that 1 page in 100, if at all, goes to chrome. But basically 100% of pages I ever use work fine.

They will have to pry with significant force firefox with ublock origin from my old dusty finger bones... fuck the rest for selling us all out.

Even if it won't move the needle a bit, I can look at myself in the mirror in this specific regard and be content that I didnt bow my head like bland masses did and didnt work towards massive enshittification of our global society from now on.

Because thats what its all about, nothing less. With our choices, we shape future for our kids and grandkids. Shame on you, all you rich faangs who are directly helping this. Godwin's law is never too far in such cases and history wont be kind to you, no reason to be

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

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Post by pjmlp »

tomkarho wrote: post #296
dralley wrote: post #99

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Websites already can barely be assed to care about supporting Firefox users, doing adblocking by default is a great way to get websites to start putting up banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome" en-masse. And Mozilla did develop anti-fingerprinting tech, but they can't enable it by default because it breaks lots of websites and when a website doesn't work they're not g…

> start putting up banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome" That's how IE 6 was killed.

It was killed by a lawsuit, mostly.

Also FE devs using all new Chrome shinny APIs, and their Electron junk are also to blame, and they aren't going to throw their toys away.

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

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Post by jstanley »

Paradigm2020 wrote: post #308
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #266

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I'd like a way to easily specify exactly what sites an extension can run on. There are extensions that I'd like to run on a subset - often just one or two sites - without giving them access do anything else. For that matter, a way to only activate an extension as a one-off when I click it and on no other tabs.

I'm using an extension that does exactly that¹, actually every update of the extension is mostly about then supporting more websites and asking permission to access those. So maybe more developers could do a all sites and manually select sites option? ¹BPC extension

The extension can declare which websites it can access, but the other commenter was looking for the ability for the user to declare which websites it can access.

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

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Post by binarin »

KingMob wrote: post #248
swed420 wrote: post #58

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> 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.

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I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was, and no facts about DHH other than him being Rails creator.

"will never be awesome" is missing some quantifier about US-centricity.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

culi wrote: post #306
matheusmoreira wrote: post #39

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It's certainly better than stock Chrome but Firefox becoming relevant again is still the ideal option.

I think it's necessary for the future of the web. Ever since Opera gave up on Presto and Edge gave up on Trident, we've seen a massive and sudden consolidation towards Chromium. It's sad how quickly we forgot the lessons we learned from the days of IE's dominance

Sad indeed. What trully pisses me off though is the fact Mozilla has like hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, possibly a billion dollars, and yet they continue to neglect Firefox.

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

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

sensanaty wrote: post #164
jjav wrote: post #66

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Agreed, I can't understand where these experiences come from. I only ever use Firefox, at work, at home, mobile. Since forever, as long as there has been a Firefox (and Mozilla before that, Netscape prior). There was one time about 8-10 years ago that I encountered a site that didn't work in Firefox, was some weird proprietary training module at work. So yes, I did encounter one site that didn't work in Firefox in th…

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it was Google astroturfing every single thread relating to FF. Yes, Mozilla isn't perfect and had some questionable decisions, but we're somehow okay with the worse option out of the two? Somehow, Mozilla's decisions are enough to never use FF, but Google's infinitely many horrible ones are acceptable for.... What reason?

> Somehow, Mozilla's decisions are enough to never use FF, but Google's infinitely many horrible ones are acceptable for.... What reason?

I think these people are real and predate AI. I think it comes down to a fundamental psychology in how the two browsers are marketed online. Firefox users would say "Firefox is better than Chrome." Chrome users would say "Chrome is good." Firefox is touted as a better browser on the principle of the freedom it gives its users, and paradoxically, that draws heavy scrutiny.

I don't think I am doing a Goomba fallacy here. People that claim to care about privacy and browser freedom will express disgust with Mozilla then, in the same breath, say they are opting into Chrome out of spite, which is 100x worse.

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

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Post by aucisson_masque »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #43
avaer wrote: post #32

What's funny is that extensions were supposed to be a way to let you do the things the browser didn't want you to do. Guess that was a bit too much freedom for Google to accept, so they had to make a store with a gate, and destroy the APIs so that they're useless. Then they had to make up some reasons to justify that and ram it through the pipeline despite everyone's objections, and the frog got boiled. Now we're bac…

> 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…

> 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.

Don't kid yourself, even with mv3 if you install a rogue extension it's going to have access to a lot more data than you would be comfortable sharing to.

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

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #310
Heidaradar wrote: post #72

I've been using Firefox for over 6 years now and I've never regretted it.

I have been using Firefox for 20 years and the regrets kept accumulating till I switched to Chrome 3 years ago.

Care to share?
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