Can the open source browser get its mojo back before turning into history's footnote?

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[+] -16 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I actually ended up switching from Firefox to Chromium, Chromium overall is just faster and nicer to use (also a bit more secure I think, if it matters)

Ublock origin and mv3 aren't as much of an issue as I assumed at first, ubo lite works fine

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You're about to have a rough few months, methinks.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    The deprecation of Manifest V2 is almost guaranteed to kick off a glut of advertisement systems that exploit the intentional weaknesses of V3. Outside of building a uBlock Origin compatible filter system into the browser, which is what Brave did (and Mozilla copied into Firefox recently), there's not really a way to get around this.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They haven't pulled the rug yet. Good luck.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Firefox is getting shittier anyways

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    You're not wrong unfortunately. Being an ethical alternative doesn't make something automatically better, and if it does, Firefox ethics has been eroding in front of the eyes of anyone who dares to look since roughly 2017 (when they partnered with Facebook to start pushing in telemetry)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You know that V2 is just now on its way out? wait until Alphabet decides that they have waited long enough to deliver the death blow to ublock lite, which can't update blocklists without a lengthy, weeks-long alphabet-controlled update process.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    There are chromium based browsers that integrate the mv2 version of unlock origin if I ever need it

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    No, there won't be. Not one of those spin-offs has the manpower available to keep V2 running when Alphabet introduces breaking changes in their code. Many of those forks have been removing (often silently) the statement reassuring their users.

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