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About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
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Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s only a matter of time before the modern Phoebus cartel starts blocking Firefox.
> It’s only a matter of time before the modern Phoebus cartel starts blocking Firefox. I feel like nobody will have to consciously do anything in particular, with the current way how things are going. - Chromium is the modern IE and developers will primarily be on the hook for supporting it, Firefox support will be an afterthought so some sites will just be broken, moving more users over to Chromium. - The Firefox ma…
Yet I genuinely don't understand how people can tolerate the modern web with ads?
It's possible some people accept it because they don't know any better, but I have never seen anyone going back once they realize it's possible to get rid of the pollution; I have never heard anyone say "where dit the ads go? I miss them".
So maybe it's just our responsibility as power users to educate our friends more?
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brave and Vivaldi will continue to support it for some time. Brave also does not really depend on MV2 as they have their own adblocker (which is about as effective as uBO, I believe). edit: link to their adblocker: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
Edit: I was wrong. See below. Original comment: Brave's built in blocker is OK for what it does but I believe that it only replaces a subset of all uBO's features. For example I don't think that Brave's built in blocker has an element picker that lets you create cosmetic filters on the fly. I use that feature all the time in uBO.
Click the Brave shield icon, then select advanced controls, then at the very bottom you'll see "Block Element".
I haven't used it enough to know if it works like the uBlock one, but at least it is there.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Edit: I was wrong. See below. Original comment: Brave's built in blocker is OK for what it does but I believe that it only replaces a subset of all uBO's features. For example I don't think that Brave's built in blocker has an element picker that lets you create cosmetic filters on the fly. I use that feature all the time in uBO.
Brave does have an element picker for creating cosmetic filters. It even works on Android, I just tried it.
You're right, I just found the option on desktop in the right-click context menu. According to some posts I've just found in the community forums, the feature was launched years ago but for some reason I had never noticed it even though Brave used to be my default browser until recently
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#105I see people reporting that the extension has already been forcefully removed (or disabled in some cases) from their Chrome. This hasn't happened to me (v133 on MacOS). I have primarily been using Chrome up until this point as I was under the impression that performance (and therefore battery life) is bad with FF on MacOS. Recent results seem to indicate that Chrome is in fact the worst offender [1]. Yesterday I unin…
After 17 years of using Android, with building my own kernel and ROMs in the early days, I finally gave up on it and finished my de-Google journey and reluctantly switched to iPhone.
The fact that Orion on iOS existed was a major reason I was able to this. On Android I was a Firefox user since Firefox was the only browser with the ability to run proper uBo.
Orion is not without its bugs, but it does support a lot of Firefox and Chrome extensions. But you don’t even need to install uBo as an extension,it’s got built in ad blocker with the ability to add or remove filter lists. Even without installing uBo, in terms of ad blocking, it instantly matched Firefox on Android. That I can install things such as Tapermonkey or Bypass Paywall Clean as extensions is a huge bonus.
It’s amazing how Google is pushing its early adopters and cheerleaders away by one anti user move after another.
I still wish Apple would remove some of the restrictions on iOS, allow other browser engines etc. Installing unknown software from unsigned developers on macOS is really difficult these days but still doable if you know where to look. If only iOS was the same. The potential lost revenue from loss of control would be more than made up by new people who would be brought on to the platform.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#106It's sad that every thread about this topic turns into simplistic Firefox proselytism.
My observation is that the developers who spearheaded the MV3 transition did so for understandable technical reasons and without any consideration for marketing concerns, yet their explanations get downvoted in favor of conspiracy theories.
It's in fact the other browsers who try to market sticking to MV2 as a unique feature, even though they too will abandon it sooner rather than later.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#107What is the best way to migrate retaining as much as possible to a fork, like Brave or Iridium, or whatever is probably the best privacy based one with an emphasis on retaining Manifest V2/ ublock support? Already migrated my Firefox to Librewolf, just need to find something for Chrome, as I don't really follow the scene close.
I migrated today as well from Firefox to LibreWolf. I'm curious why you need a chrome based at all? I mean I have ungoogled Chromium on my desktop just in case I want to see if a broken site is only broken for Firefox, but that's rare.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#108brave browser is the only way, now even firefox sell our data
lol but brave is chromium with some bloat and a crypto scheme bolted on. it'll be unable to block ads with anything but crippled MV3 solutions when the flag is disabled in July
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> LLMs are much better in searching for information than advertisement-exposure optimized google. Completely disagree. Just this morning I've been trying to search for how to pair a wireless headset that I own to a new receiver. Gemini tells me there is no need to pair the adapter, but if I do need to do it I should press . It also pushes the PDF and TS articles that the manufacturer provides off of my main search wi…
They're better at it if you don't actually care about the truth of the result though. I.e confirming your opinion, compiling a report about something you're not gonna take action on etc
I'm bullish on LLMs. They're incredibly useful for quickly collating and present info on a topic you're proficient or competent in, but maybe rusty. Using programming as an example, this morning I asked claude to write a batch file that launched 4 instances of my application and tiled their windows across my screen (on windows), wait for input on the command line and kill them all again. It spat out a working script in about 15 seconds. It's not pretty, but I know enough batch and Win32 to know that it's going to work (and it does).
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#110I tried uBlock Origin Lite for a very short time. Then I realized that in Lite, the user can’t add custom rules[0]. That’s when I had enough. So now I’m using Firefox instead, where I can use uBlock Origin. [0] See https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1in2ls4/ubloc...
Many years ago I switched to chrome because ff felt sluggish. That’s all fixed since a long time. Not sure why so many seems to be choosing chrome today.