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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 tombert »

7bit wrote: post #344
tombert wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t speak for all users, but at least as of about six months ago, there appears to be a bug in Firefox in NixOS where the shader cache doesn’t appear to be able to write properly, and as such video acceleration doesn’t work. It became most evident when I was trying to watch 360-degree videos in Immich. Entirely possible that this is an issue specific to NixOS or my machine, but because of that issue I switched over…

Aw man, one issue you don't even know is Firefox's fault?

Regardless of whose fault it is, it still makes the browser unusable for me.

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

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Post by dbspin »

wyclif wrote: post #494
dbspin wrote: post #479

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Brave's ad block is pretty ineffectual by itself. For example it doesn't block youtube adverts. Recently switched to Firefox with Ublock origin, and loving it. So much more efficient and quick than it was back in the day when we all switched to Chrome.

For example it doesn't block youtube adverts Pretty sure that's not true. I don't see any YT adverts when using Brave, and I don't have any extensions installed.

I don't know what to tell you... It most definitely does not block youtube adverts for me and never had / did... Also, I found Ublock origin updates less reliable / frequent on Brave. Since switching zero issues.

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

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Post by dotancohen »

feelamee wrote: post #501
dotancohen wrote: post #392

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The permissions mechanism.

this is not a solution. Running an untrusted software will always be a security drawback. Permissions/sandbox/etc can decrease risk, but not eliminate it

Expressing intent is good enough for me for this purpose. I understand that there are additional implementation specific risks.

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

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Post by tombert »

fouc wrote: post #237
tombert wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t speak for all users, but at least as of about six months ago, there appears to be a bug in Firefox in NixOS where the shader cache doesn’t appear to be able to write properly, and as such video acceleration doesn’t work. It became most evident when I was trying to watch 360-degree videos in Immich. Entirely possible that this is an issue specific to NixOS or my machine, but because of that issue I switched over…

the obvious thing to do is keep using firefox as your daily driver, and load up the other browser as needed for the video etc. I'm being tongue-in-cheek here because it seems most people just give up on safari/firefox if one thing doesn't work and go to some chromium-based browser as their default driver. That's sad.

I am not going to use two separate browsers purely so that a larger percentage of my time is spent in Firefox. That’s not a solution; the solution is to fix Firefox.

I would rather spend 100% of my time in Firefox but that’s not doable right now.

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

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Post by dotancohen »

inigyou wrote: post #458
dotancohen wrote: post #392

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The permissions mechanism.

How can the permissions mechanism be fine grained enough to prevent bad random things, and coarse grained enough that you can understand it?

Have you seen AWS IAM?

Power users who care about this don't need a GUI - a text file config in any format will do. Especially in this era of LLM assistance.

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

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Post by drewfax »

timetraveller26 wrote: post #11

Firefox, after 20 years, once again has an advantage over the other browsers. Let's hope for new generations to get tired of so many ads to finally ditch chrome.

New generations don't 'browse' web anymore. They 'consume' YouTube, Instagram, Android TV and other walled gardens. These generation don't even know they could change contents being displayed on their device to their wish. For them it's just whatever the app shows. They don't understand Web, extensions, DNS etc. I don't have hope for new generations. We're are the old men now yelling at AI and App Stores.

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

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Post by tomkarho »

dspillett wrote: post #420
tomkarho wrote: post #296

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> start putting up banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome" That's how IE 6 was killed.

The final death of IE6 was because corporates finally stopped using it⁰ and the reason for that had nothing to do with sites/apps refusing to work. If we'd said "we don't support IE6" they'd either say "the contract we signed years ago somehow says otherwise" or "fair enough, we'll use someone else's solution then". What killed it was IE6 not supporting TLS1.0 out of the box or TLS1.1+ at all, and that started to mak…

I'd like to think this conspiracy at least contributed: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

Unless it's all fud in which case I shall archive this under headcanon.

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

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Post by saghm »

davidfischer wrote: post #535
saghm wrote: post #221

> But Firefox is one of the few web browsers remaining that isn’t based on Chromium, and it’s now the only major browser to still support uBlock Origin. Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo—the two other major non-Chromium browsers out there—support uBlock Origin Does anyone here use DuckDuckGo browser? I've honestly never heard of anyone using it, so I'm pretty surprised to see it categorized as a "major browser". I alread…

I use DDG on Android and it works pretty well there. I also saw this line in the article and it's somewhat of a stretch to call DDG either a "major" browser (as you point out) or a "non-Chromium browser". My understanding is it uses the browser engine bundled with the OS on Android/iOS/Mac/Windows and it isn't available for Linux. The wikipedia article on it says: > The core browser functionality is the WebView compo…

Interesting, thanks for the context! I hadn't realized it was mobile-only, which is probably part of why I hadn't realized it existed. And yeah, it does seem like they maybe didn't know what they were talking about if the engine is literally Blink.

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

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Post by xtracto »

feelamee wrote: post #497
latexr wrote: post #355

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> Why would someone install "random extensions" that they dont trust. An extension that you trust today can be sold to an unscrupulous third-party tomorrow. That has happened many many times and will continue to.

so, it should not be updated automatically. so, you should not trust something that install updates (literally - install another software) without your agreement

Back in the mid 90s when the web started to be all the rage, I remember reading a comment I thought hilarious and kind of right. Paraphrasing a lot it went like this:

"Somehow, when people get into the internet, their IQ decreases like 50 points. Like, if a guy knocked on your house door and offered you to give you a million dollars if you just gave him a thousand now, you would tell him to F. off. But somehow on the internet people thing it's right"

Same with these apps, someone comes and tells you to let him install this great water appliance for your backyard. You let him come in. But somehow in the internet, you also give him the key so that he can come in again anytime he wants... he may sell the key, lose the key, do something malicious later,etc. But due to ignorance, people dont grasp what they are doing in the digital world. People lack the necessary mental models.

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

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Post by spopejoy »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #310
Heidaradar wrote: post #72

I've been using Firefox for over 6 years now and I've never regretted it.

I have been using Firefox for 20 years and the regrets kept accumulating till I switched to Chrome 3 years ago.

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