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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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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…
Brave has native ad-block and anti finger-printing, enabled by default, and the web works excellently as in I don't know of a single site that doesn't work with it.
Not saying your wrong, but the number, and type, of sites you browse is going to be a very narrow slice of the sites that all Firefox users browse
Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome" Which in practice means "switch to using a Firefox extension which fakes looking like Chrome, and just to selected shitty sites like ours".
Which in practice would only be executed by the same crowd of people who would have opted-in to the security features on the first pass.
Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
#364The Web needs to die.
Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
#365Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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I don't like telemetry being defaulted to opt-in but relax. It's anonymized and it's far and away the least intrusive of the major browsers
It's not anonymized, because your communication with Mozilla has plenty of identifying information. Also, Mozilla officially un-committed to not using sell this and any other data it collects from you: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-...
That article is well over a year old. The current privacy FAQ right now explicitly states:
> We never sell your personal data. Unlike other big tech companies that collect and profit off your personal information, we’re built with privacy as the default. We don’t know your age, gender, precise location, or other information Big Tech collects and profits from.
Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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> 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.
If nothing else, I really do hope that the greater AI usage leads to more adoption (and hopefully interest) of native frameworks.
Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
#368Wait until google cuts their funding unless they cut the ad blockers
Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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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…
> I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data This is so funny to me. Coming from a Netscape Navigator world, when extensions first came out, they were supposed to allow the user to add functionality to websites. Why would someone install "random extensions" that they dont trust. And also, what would extensions do if not read and write data to websites? . Sign of the times I gue…
Extensions are set to auto update by default, and it's not obvious at first how to disable that. It's also disallowed to install an extension you've built from source on most release builds, without messing with a hex editor. So essentially, any extension you install is liable to be come a "random" extension, if for example, the author sells out, or something like the attacks on NPM were to happen.
Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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That's basically exactly what Brave (the only Chromium browser still supporting uBO) is doing to support uBlock Origin. But it's flimsy and likely has an expiration date.
AFAIK they are using the built-in support which Google still maintains even if they don't expose it. My point is that when MV3 was announced there was an assumption that maintaining a Chromium fork to continue supporting MV2 would be too much work and too expensive. But now with LLMs that's no longer a safe assumption. The non-Chrome chromium based browsers can fork chromium and add back MV2. No need for any expirati…
Or you could just use Firefox.