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Let's hear it then because I'm using Brave and don't see the opt-out.
https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-H... and simply dont use their homepage as your new tab page
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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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They are opt-out, not opt-in. Big difference.
Opt-in. Someone else linked Brave's blog below. Read it. https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-H...
Have you ever actually used Brave? Because then you would have noticed the huge glowing opt-out billboard of a new tab page.
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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…
Thanks. Just installed Consent-O-Matic. I avoided it earlier because I assumed it consented, but by default it does not consent.
I've had few sites that froze when using it coz it clicked something wrong ;/
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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.
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…
we have clause in deal with clients about browser support (IIRC 5% or something like that). FF was just mismanaged so badly that the usage dropped so far into low single digit % it's not the question of maliciously not supporting it, it's the question of not wasting time on browser barely anyone of actual users use.
So, most sites work, but are never tested on FF, because there is no point, client won't pay for it.
Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
#605The title misses something more important: Firefox is and has been for a very long time the only browser who wasn't made by people trying to extract profit from you. Everything follows from this. Edge people, Chrome people have been living in a fairytale for believing that the keepers of their portal to the web were offering a product as complex and expensive as a browser without asking for anything in return. Anyone…
> Anyone knows that any company that gives you something for free will eventually want something from you
Firefox is also free.
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mv2 can stop tracking in ways mv3 cannot.
I understand that. But multiple browsers have cloned uBlock-like ad blocking as their core functionality. For example Vivaldi, Brave. And they don't need MV2 to block ads, and use uBlock filters (easylist, abp filters, etc). So they block ads even if they don't support MV2 anymore.
If you understand that, then why are you saying we don’t need MV2. MV2 does more. It’s better.
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> 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.
It's been many years since Firefox dropped support for XUL extensions and XUL itself. It even lead to Firefox being forked, and Palemoon browser (amongst other forks of it) now carry the legacy of XUL ( https://udn.realityripple.com/ ). Also, that hasn't stopped Firefox from offering stand alone Gecko on Android ( https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ ) now, has it? If they can do it for Android, why not all the other desktop platforms? Start redirecting the 300+ million dollars they have earned from Firefox to the developers instead of the CEO et al and maybe we will see some good innovation happening in Firefox ...
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Exactly. The Lite version is basically "hiding" ads rather than blocking. The MV2 version stops the requests themselves from being made which save your bandwidth and battery. The light version lacks those benefits
Advertisers get to pretend their ads are being seen. Websites get paid. Users don't see ads. Sounds like a win-win-win?
Users are still being tracked and your websites are still slower to load. More of your bandwidth and CPU is being used.
If you want a sophisticated version of what you think this is, see Ad Nauseum. It's uBlock Origin except they create a fake "profile" for you and selectively click ads under the hood to throw advertisers off
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They rewrote the terms almost immediately after the backlash. They also claimed the original terms were written in response to the overly broad legal definitions of "data sales" under laws like the CCPA. Which tbh sounds reasonable
proof?