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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)

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Post by webspinner »

bambax wrote: post #102
KronisLV wrote: post #59

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> 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?

I honestly don't understand it either! I'm a screen reader user, and if I had to use the web without adblock, it would take me a lot longer!!! However, I have friends who also use screen readers who do!!

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by webspinner »

bad_user wrote: post #130
philistine wrote: post #120

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1Blocker on Safari is an excellent experience, and available for iPhone as well where it can remove ads from inside other apps. Letterboxd for example.

Safari's ad-blocking abilities are no more potent than what Chrome's Manifest v3 gives you. In fact, the changes in MV3 were inspired by Safari. I used to work adjacent to a team working on anti-ad-blocking tech. Safari's protections are fairly easy to circumvent, with Adblock Plus not being great either. It was uBlock Origin that was making this team sweat, and they didn't even bother with it. The reason is that wha…

Wow, uBlock origin was making a team working on adblock circumvention tech sweat? I'm sure it makes Google do way more!!

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by webspinner »

postepowanieadm wrote: post #47

Google is milking a dying cow. LLMs are much better in searching for information than advertisement-exposure optimized google. People are paying for LLMs, consumers are no longer a commodity. Internet will change, maybe creators will be paid for their content? But what will happen with advertisers?

I don't use that crap for search, or anything for that matter. I also don't use Google lol.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by webspinner »

hosteur wrote: post #137
postepowanieadm wrote: post #55

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But how such adverts would look like?

In the beginning there will likely be bad ones that are obvious to spot like explicitly pushing products or services relating to the prompt. Soon, I expect them to be almost invisible. The LLM will gently be nudging the user towards some products rather than others. For example, let's say a user asks how to do X. The LLM could then respond with an itemised list of steps to accomplish X. But the steps might involve do…

I refuse to use a chatbot for search!! I can just type it into a search engine and find it.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by webspinner »

robin_reala wrote: post #121
arkx wrote: post #114

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The essentials for me are private email, calendar & cloud storage. Here is my post-Google setup: https://tuta.com/ is a German privacy-focused alternative that I'm currently using for email & calendar. Easy switch, although I was already using web clients rather than IMAP before the switch. I looked at Proton Drive for cloud storage, but their CEO Andy Yen is a Trump supporter ( https://archive.ph/2025.01.15-162500/h…

Right, yes, YouTube is the big outlier. After I’d deleted my old Google account I created a new YouTube-specific account, and run it in a Firefox container to keep me logged out everywhere else.

I did the same thing, created an Youtube specific account.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by nickjj »

homebrewer wrote: post #113
nickjj wrote: post #92

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My machine is 10 years old. With Firefox video playback on YouTube is choppy even at 1080p. With Chrome it's perfectly smooth. If Firefox performed better for me I would have switched to it long ago. This is on Windows 10 btw.

Look into about:support, what does `HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING` and sibling features say? If it's off, you could try force-enabling video acceleration by setting `gfx.webrender.all` to `true` in about:config. I've had it force-enabled for years with no issues.

HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING does not exist but there's a bunch of rendering options. They are all set to default and available except for a few things like DIRECT2D is disabled and WEBGPU / REMOTE_CANVAS is blocked.

gfx.webrender.all was set to false. I will give true a try. Thanks.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by [deleted] »

homebrewer wrote: post #58
brylie wrote: post #43

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They mention "other browsers" in addition to Firefox that will continue to support Manifest v2, but I can't find a list. Does anyone know off-hand the additional browser options for Manifest V2 and multiple-OS support?

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

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Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by nickjj »

nickjj wrote: post #176
homebrewer wrote: post #113

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Look into about:support, what does `HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING` and sibling features say? If it's off, you could try force-enabling video acceleration by setting `gfx.webrender.all` to `true` in about:config. I've had it force-enabled for years with no issues.

HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING does not exist but there's a bunch of rendering options. They are all set to default and available except for a few things like DIRECT2D is disabled and WEBGPU / REMOTE_CANVAS is blocked. gfx.webrender.all was set to false. I will give true a try. Thanks.

So it's been a week. I have not noticed any issues with Firefox. I didn't even adjust this setting.

Everything is a lot smoother now than it was about 3-4 years when I last tried, even with the same hardware.

Happily using Firefox as my daily browser now.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by trallnag »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #152
trallnag wrote: post #26

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If only Firefox would properly support PWAs. I know that there are workarounds like installing the PWAs in Chrome and setting up an extension that redirects links clicked in a PWA to be opened in Firefox, but it is a hassle.

Which PWAs do you use?

Zoho (email), TickTick (tasks)
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