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Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by miriam_catira »

evolighting wrote: post #14
dotcoma wrote: post #4

Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)

I'm a Firefox user for about 20yrs (since Firefox 3); but too often I have to use Chrome, as so many sites only work properly on it; Firefox is really buggy or laggy on those websites; For a time, all those AI chat web pages were just very slow on Firefox even with very little context, whereas Chrome only gets laggy when there is a lot of context.

Same here, but when a site completely fails in Firefox I either A) use my phone because mobile Firefox occasionally works or B) use Ungoogled Chromium.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Really hoping the uBlock will continue to work on that project...

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by matheusmoreira »

totetsu wrote: post #38

uBo is the only reason I find browsing the web at all tolerable anymore. As a test I turned it off to view this article and almost crashed my browser with a dozen auto play video ads This would mean I would find the energy to get over anything that is holding me on chrome, like saved passwords etc.

Agree. The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin. It should be a standard browser feature at this point, like popup blockers.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by charcircuit »

renegat0x0 wrote: post #70
Balinares wrote: post #30

AdGuard MV3 works fine. Still switch to FF if you can, more diversity in the ecosystem benefits everyone.

wasn't mv3 a dumbed down version? So it "does not work just fine" as some ads slip through?

What ads are slipping through?

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by [deleted] »

nishanmiranda wrote: post #36
HerbManic wrote: post #28

Just remember that Google is essentially an advertising company and that they were always going to squeeze this opening closed as soon as they could get away with it. I do fear for a future were even Firefox ends up caving in. Ladybird browser might be our only hope until something legal comes along to block functionality.

Firefox haven't caved in so far. Why do u think it might in future?

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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by dotcoma »

worthless-trash wrote: post #58
dotcoma wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To people who like Chrome, or some of its features (I love their bookmarks), I say: try Helium. Or Iridium. Or even Brave.

Which one isnt going to get unmaintained first.

Brave, then, I imagine.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by Freak_NL »

28304283409234 wrote: post #61
perks_12 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was that the year they fired the Rust team to focus on paying their executives?

Let's not exchange crap behaviour. I think google would win hands down. Firefox at least has adblocking.

The classic 'those guys did something bad, so I am going to go with the guys who are absolute assholes doing several orders of magnitude more bad things now instead' response.

That usually means that whoever utters it was just looking for a sycophantic excuse to go with the bigger threat because it is more convenient to them (for now).

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