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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 thisislife2 »

bartvbl wrote: post #443
Macha wrote: post #412

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One of my biggest annoyances about my iPad is how much less effective the content blockers on Safari are than on real Firefox and ublock origin that I have on my Android phone and had on my previous windows tablet. Also iOS “Firefox” can’t run any adblockers, whether ublock origin or iOS content blockers so I have to use Safari and put up without consent-o-matic or tab sync For example, ublock origin is able to patch…

Kagi's Orion browser is a far as I know the only one on iOS that supports proper Firefox extensions, including ublock and others. You may want to give that a try.

There is no real support for uBlock Origin on Orion - it's still very buggy and doesn't work. They do have their own adblocking built-in though.

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

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Post by tux3 »

drabbiticus wrote: post #531
OtomotO wrote: post #373

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Which in turn should be built into the browser and done automatically

I don't think Firefox should automatically spoof a Chrome user agent.

There's a long tradition of browsers doing exactly that.

The Chrome user agent starts with Mozilla/5.0, ends with Safari, claims to be like Gecko, based on KHTML, and somewhere in there is the string Chrome.

That was done exactly because people were trying to gate which browsers could or couldn't see their page by name, instead of by missing functionality.

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

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Post by quotemstr »

gurjeet wrote: post #112
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…

Complete, authoritative list of Firefox extensions officially recommended by Mozilla. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=re... Some quite informative discussion on Firefox subreddit when I discovered and posted the above list there a few months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1pyvx2v/complete_a... The Recommended Extensions program description: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/k…

Interesting they'd recommend Decentraleyes: its default configuration disabled all HTTP link prefetching, which hurts performance in a way not apparent from the extension description.

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

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Post by thisislife2 »

geekamongus wrote: post #480

I wrote this article about Firefox 0.9 back in 2004, when they first implemented pop-up blocking, and have been using it every day since. https://www.digital-web.com/articles/firefox_09/

Wow, have you really been maintaining that site for 20+ years now?

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

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Post by dopa42365 »

inigyou wrote: post #470
armadyl wrote: post #250

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> The issue is that adblocking doesn't work with it Except this is objectively not true… uBlock Origin Lite is nearly as good as uBO and blocks nearly everything except for mostly Twitch ads. Manifest v3 is a big security upgrade and effectively closes off the permanent RCE pathway that v2 allowed.

So we already see one major ad category it's unable to block. When will advertisers catch on to put more of their ads in that category?

Twitch ads haven't reliably been blocked by ublock origin (in any browser) for years. The "best" solution people came up with is replacing the stream with an ad-free low res version for the duration of the ads, which doesn't make for a very enjoyable viewing experience. There were/are some more experimental options like m3u proxies to jurisdictions where Twitch isn't serving any ads for one reason or another, but those aren't reliably working all the time either. In any case, somewhat outside the scope of ad blockers and closer to paywall circumvention-ish.

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

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Post by much-to-learn »

quotemstr wrote: post #593
gurjeet wrote: post #112

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Complete, authoritative list of Firefox extensions officially recommended by Mozilla. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=re... Some quite informative discussion on Firefox subreddit when I discovered and posted the above list there a few months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1pyvx2v/complete_a... The Recommended Extensions program description: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/k…

Interesting they'd recommend Decentraleyes: its default configuration disabled all HTTP link prefetching, which hurts performance in a way not apparent from the extension description.

You should have prefetching off by default tbh

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

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Post by shooly »

inigyou wrote: post #477
bambax wrote: post #425

There's a mystery here. People hate ads. Firefox is the only major browser (save Brave?) that properly blocks ads. Yet people don't use Firefox (indeed its popularity is in free-fall). Why? Is it because they don't know about it? Or they won't go to the trouble of using any browser that isn't the one provided by default by the OS? I'm not sure. I just don't get it.

Firefox is also the only "major" browser not installed on any device by default. People with windows use edge, people with mac or ios use safari, people with android use chrome. People with linux use firefox but those are extremely few since none of the machines you buy at the store have linux. It's really that simple. Marketing realism wins over technical excellence every single time . Do you know why Valve invested…

> Marketing realism wins over technical excellence every single time

It is so annoying to see this idiotic mantra being repeated every single time a thread like this pops up. It's simply not true. There is no conspiracy, people aren't being manipulated by Big Tech to like Chromium-based browsers more. Those browsers are simply better and that's it. That's really all there is to it.

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

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Post by dralley »

thisislife2 wrote: post #580
Larrikin wrote: post #183

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What flaws exactly? People on here love to moan about Firefox because Mozilla did one thing at some point in the existence of the company they didn't like. But then just cede the Internet to Google and chromium clones because at some point when they were a crappy junior JS dev, Chrome had some better tooling over Firebug so they just got used to testing in one browser. Maybe they also like to remember how Firefox, a…

> What flaws exactly? It's not modular, for example. You can't just use the Gecko engine in your project. To do so, you have to deal and hack through the whole codebase of the Firefox browser.

Well for years HN was complaining that Mozilla was trying to fix that, because it broke XUL extensions.
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