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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 inigyou »

jimmydorry wrote: post #571
inigyou wrote: post #455

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We should have the option to limit an extension to certain tabs or websites or at least windows, and extension authors should also have the option to specify that. An adblocker, by its nature, needs to access *. But Return YouTube Dislike could statically specify that it will only run on youtube.com, and that's fine. But the option to enable access to * is essential.

>An adblocker, by its nature, needs to access * Well that's what is in contention. Does everything claiming to be an adblocker really need access to *? Is Adblocker5++ (totally not malware) entitled to as much access as uBlock Origin? You can declare upfront all the URLs you don't want accessed (which on top of security gives a substantial performance boost), and who's to say someone won't figure out a better way of…

What does "entitled" mean here?

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

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Post by inigyou »

lukan wrote: post #567
inigyou wrote: post #448

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The problem is that it's urging you to use words against people who are using fists. That is, it's urging you to self-sabotage and lose. It's quite possible the statement was written by a naive person who doesn't realise this. Lots of people don't realise this.

Hm. Charlie Kirk was not urging people to use fists as far as I know.

Well, if you want to be more pedantic, he urged people to use guns, and that's worse.

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

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Post by mossTechnician »

culi wrote: post #617
inigyou wrote: post #451

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They pulled back on the websife change after backlash, but trust takes a long time to rebuild. Also, don't go by the FAQ. Go by the actual terms and conditions. Remember part of their original response to the controversy was to say "we don't sell your data, we just give it out in exchange for money" so I'm inclined to ignore anything from them that says "we don't sell" as they clearly don't know what it means.

The trust was lost because of the public's misunderstanding of the change. It was updated as a response to the overly broad legal definitions of "data sales" under laws like the CCPA. As your own link says, Mozilla explicitly stated: > It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.

Mozilla lost trust rewriting their policy, and even more trust when they blamed their users for being "confused"[0] IMO. They're the ones with the lawyers and the sponsorships. All blame for "confusion" rests upon the party with the legal upper hand.

[0]: https://www.ghacks.net/2025/02/27/mozillas-new-terms-of-use-...

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

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Post by Fizz43 »

al_borland wrote: post #661
herrherrmann wrote: post #640

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It’s hard for me to imagine that most people care about speed. I think it’s more likely that they just don’t know how bad Chrome is (for the internet) and how evil Google is (it’s still the main search engine for most people). I think Chrome is familiar, and Google is good at locking people in, pretending that Chrome does things better (or even making sure other browsers are handicapped on the Google sites, like YouT…

With Firefox, when it grew, most of what I saw was friends installing it on their friend’s computer. It felt very organic and word of mouth. It may have also been an answer to the pop-up hell of the era, but I’m more hazy on that. > they just don’t know how bad Chrome is (for the internet) I agree on this. Every time I’ve brought this up on HN I get a lot of push back from people arguing that Chrome is pushing the we…

Firefox needs word of mouth to grow. It needs tech people and firefox users to talk positively about it. But all they do is nitpick and spread baseless FUD its no wonder users drop.

I always tell people firefox is amazing because it really is. It has cool features, it looks cool, its fast, the company behind it is awesome.

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

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Post by Markoff »

gorhill wrote: post #533
Markoff wrote: post #338

1. Vivaldi supports uBlock Origin, if you consider Firefox a "major browser" then sure also Vivaldi and Brave are major browsers 2. while I use uBlock Origin on phone (Firefox) and desktop (Vivaldi), it's overrated, AdGuard works under MV3 AND unlike uBlock supports element picker, so if I was on browser not supporting uBO I would switch to AdGuard since I can't live without element picker

uBO Lite does support "element picker", it's called "Create a custom filter" in popup panel.

so I can click with cursor over element I don't want to remove it same way as in uBlock Origin?

because without UI manually editing the filter is not an element picker.

I'm unable to find any screenshot of ubol, all I found is some switch between protection levels and all answers I've found in Google to this question say there is no element picker and not going to install it since all my browser still support uBO

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

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Post by fhn »

thisislife2 wrote: post #583
elabajaba wrote: post #387

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Firefox started shipping adblock-rust in March (Brave's built in adblocker). It's not properly wired up in the UI yet but you can enable it and add filter lists in about:config.

I am cynical about this move - this could be used by them to cripple support for uBlock Origin eventually, to keep Google happy.

If they cripple support for uBlock Origin, there will be no more Firefox. That's a promise.

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

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Post by fhn »

culi wrote: post #207
Beijinger wrote: post #203

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Also for youtube download plug-ins. yt-dpl does not work for youtube anymore.

Still works for me. The occasional 403 has always been an issue

download everything now because this is going to be a larger problem

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

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Post by jstrebel »

inigyou wrote: post #441
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…

Thanks. Just installed Consent-O-Matic. I avoided it earlier because I assumed it consented, but by default it does not consent.

Consent-O-Matic is a bit of an edge case because their last update was more than a year ago and their Github repo looks pretty dead. This makes me not really trust it anymore.

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

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Post by Ballas »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #331
matheusmoreira wrote: post #260

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Yeah, by opting out of them altogether. I'd very much enjoy having useful extensions that are not dangerous instead.

You can't trust a code that you didn't audit before. End of story. What you are asking for is simply impossible, even without any permissions rogue extensions can still do a lot. It's what some developers spend their entire time working on. If Google couldn't fix it with Android, which has granular permission per applications, why do you think it's going to be even remotely effective on the web browser ?

Do you audit all the code running on your PC? I certainly did not audit Chrome (and I also don't really trust it).

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

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Post by Madmallard »

culi wrote: post #662
Madmallard wrote: post #654

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Yeah, nah. From your own google search: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/s/wo3T5ZB8ig https://youtu.be/-8bTquKjzos

Lol I this is internet inception. You, someone who didn't read any of the articles, linked to a reddit post. The reddit post is of an article that is full of confused redditors who also didn't read the article. The article's very first sentence says: > After fielding user backlash over its new Terms of Use last week, Firefox browser maker Mozilla has rewritten its policy to address issues around the overly broad lang…

The language is still ambiguous enough to cause issues. That's why Louis Rossman said just download Librewolf and be done with it.
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