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Google is an ad company, ad blockers are bad. Why are you using a browser from an advertising company and expecting different results? Microsoft repurposed Google's adware in Chrome into Edge telemetry/spyware to feed your browsing directly into windows telemetry to watch everything you do, they wanted that back when IE lost the war. Google already went evil and set the precedent removing adblocking capabilities, now…
Hey now, I use Edge on macOS.
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Sure, but have YT Premium for the family. Don't know how anyone can use YT without it. And it blocks 90% of ads, the rest are tolerable / go mostly unnoticed.
>Don't know how anyone can use YT without it. With an adblocker.. Why would you need yt premium with an adblocker?
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Hey now, I use Edge on macOS.
Why?
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The only reason anyone knows about the switch between manifest 2 and 3 is that the only meaningful difference is the crippled ad blocking ability. Nobody knows any other difference unless they are an extension developers or worked on making the Internet a worse place.
Right, but there is no meaningful difference in terms of ad blocking ability. It's all theoretical. In practice, uBlock Origin Lite works amazingly on MV3. In my experience, it blocks all the ads. And I've been using it for a while now.
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Because of Mozilla.
Doesn’t answer the question
Mozilla receives the vast majority of its funding—roughly $400 million annually from Google
Mozilla has made announcements regarding transforming Firefox into an AI-heavy browser and have started alienating longtime open-source supporters
Massive salaries paid to Mozilla Foundation executives.
Firefox is a joke because it's no longer a users browser. Rather than it just being a browser it's now a VPN, Ai and other.
I give it two years before it starts shoving advertisements.
Google is an ad company, ad blockers are bad. Why are you using a browser from an advertising company and expecting different results? Microsoft repurposed Google's adware in Chrome into Edge telemetry/spyware to feed your browsing directly into windows telemetry to watch everything you do, they wanted that back when IE lost the war. Google already went evil and set the precedent removing adblocking capabilities, now…
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There is a dynamic API too that allows extensions to modify the blocklist at runtime. I’ve been using UBlock Origin Lite on my iPhone for a while, and that works great, keeping itself updated from EasyList and allowing for custom rules. In some ways it’s better, in some ways it’s worse. Sometimes you have to flip it into “complete mode” (and give it full access to modify the current site) to get good blocking.
>In some ways it’s better, in some ways it’s worse. Sometimes you have to flip it into “complete mode” (and give it full access to modify the current site) to get good blocking. I don't how this is supposed to be a demerit given that the v2 version had full access to every site you visit. Safari just made that more explicit.
This is ultimately the endpoint of all Chromium-based browsers. Even the most stalwart will throw in the towel on MV2 support sooner or later, because the effort required to maintain non-trivial patches against mainline becomes too great for the team to keep up with. It's a great demonstration of how Chromium's open source nature is something of a technicality. Unless you have an army of software engineers on par wit…
Brave's built in adblocker is on par to uBlock Origin for me.
I'd use Brave if someone made a fork with all the BAT token stuff removed but I haven't seen one.
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So no youtube?
YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit.
Having said that YouTube is so enshittified in other ways too (screaming thumbnails and titles, sponsors which need sponsorblock, random AI clickbait videos) that I rarely feel like watching it at all anyway.
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So no youtube?
I find _yt-dlp_ to be the best ad-block solution for Youtube. One can watch it offline and archive it if value has been found. Web Brower with ad-blocking setup can still have advertisements leak through. When it does and it still does after three refreshes, I just don't watch and move on. I will always be a sunk-cost for Google.