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Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024 (9to5google.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dvdnet89@lemmy.today to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

As far as I know most inbuilt adblockers, don't work very well. Especially with yt. Everytime yt does something, you would probably have to wait for new version of your browser, and even then it is questionable if it would work. With ublock origin you just click on one button and you are good to go. If somebody doesn't know, I'm talking about refreshing your filters.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm yet to see any ad since I've started using Brave. Din know about YouTube, I don't use it.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 points 1 year ago

Why would you want to use some Google-coded, bigoted-ceo, crypto-pushing, link hijacking POS like Brave?

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Because it's simply a better browser.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Brave adblock is just a fork of uBlock with a whitelist for Brave's partners.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It works. Enough for me not to bother with anything else.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

That’s fine but you should understand that you shouldn’t endorse an inferior product just because you don’t need anything better

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll endorse whatever I feel like. And.. Inferior? Lol. Just looking at the retard UI of Firefox is enough for me (p.s., I've been a FF user for almost 20 year, since it still was Phoenix).

By the way, I'd be curious to know what would happen to FF if somewhat uBlock Origin disappeared. Equivalently, the only thing keeping FF alive (apart from sweet Google's money) is the existence of uBlock Origin, i.e. an independent extension created and maintained by volunteers. I'm pretty sure that the day uBO dies, is the day FF disappears

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not just change the UI then?

How do you figure it’s u-block?

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I won't bother thinkering with CSS which break with updates
Users shouldn't be in charge to fix Mozilla's fuckups. That's how you loose 70M users since 2019
The only semi-valid reason people often give to use FF is uBlock Origin. I wonder how many of these FF loyal users would still stay on FF, should uBlock Origin disappear. Would you? At this point, it looks like FF is just an extension for uBO, rather than the opposite.
Last but not least, for a lot of reasons, I've grown increasingly pissed off with Mozilla, so I simply refuse to give then more underserved market share (after being a user/supporter/advocate for almost 20 years).

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you wouldn’t care to fix an issue then why complain

Ublock origin is on every browser, who do you think is only on Firefox because of it?

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't complain. I just switched to a different browser.
What I mean is that FF is the only major browser which doesn't have an inbuilt adblocker and FF "fans" often brag about uBO working "best" on FF (because of the CNAME support), when there's at least another browser with and in-built adblocker which supports CNAME uncloacking. Without uBO FF usefulness would be exactly 0.