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submitted 10 months ago by Vitaly@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Google is going to release new manifest v3. How could it harm uBlock Origin? And will Firefox and Safari become the only major browsers that fully support uBlock Origin?

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[-] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 127 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Geez just use Firefox already. A browser from an ad company is gonna serve u ads. 🥸 And then you don’t have to waste your time on this bullshit

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

I've been saying this for damn near 15 years. It's odd that people migrated from Firefox to Chrome in the first place. Obviously not everyone who uses Chrome did that but I know quite a few people who did and are now talking about switching back. These are people who generally believe independent and open source is the best way to go too.

[-] misophist@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

It's odd that people migrated from Firefox to Chrome in the first place.

I migrated from Firefox to Chrome years and years ago when Chrome was lightning fast with a bazillion tabs open and Firefox had some memory leak that forced me to reload a couple times a day. I have since moved back and realized all my old problems are no longer a thing, but I can definitely see why some would have made the switch and never tried moving back.

[-] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

From what I saw. It was more Internet Explorer to Chrome.

Back in the day Firefox wasn't as polished as it was now. Think more Open Office than Libre Office.

All machines had IE and it sucked, crashed but was default. Then I tried Chrome and it was good. Then moved everyone to it since the alternatives weren't as good.

Years later, chrome is still good compared to IE, but now Firefox is slightly better. For all intent and purpose it's the same but some qol features here and there made me move.

But for everyone else they don't want or need to move. So until it gets worse than IE they'll stay.

[-] Toes@ani.social 67 points 10 months ago

I believe some chromium based browsers will continue to support their own flavours of adblock.

But Firefox is the way to go

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox. If you're going to use uBlock. Firefox is the best browser for it.

[-] Aurix@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Firefox is a good browser and unfortunately the only fully independent one. But I also believe there might be a bigger Chromium development split happening. Nothing increases action and unites people like a monopoly pushing greed.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

the only fully independent one

ahem

[-] Aurix@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Fair point, they receive Google money. But its technological backend is not bound to Chromium.

[-] NullaFacies@sh.itjust.works 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, it won't be blocked.

That being said, it will be handicapped.

https://www.spacebar.news/chrome-ad-blocking-manifest-v3-ublock-origin/

Safari doesn't have uBlock Origin at the moment AFAIK; it was discontinued. uBlock Origin on Firefox will continue using MV2 which allows for better extension/list updating.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately, Firefox is the best option right now, and it works rather well, unlike about 5-6 years back when it was horrible.

I'll use Librewolf and Ungoogled-Chromium

[-] EvokerKing@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Manifest v3 has been out for a while now, they are just blocking manifest v2. There will probably be a way to fix it, but there is always other browsers like brave that have built in adblockers that block basically anything. While people were worrying about whether they will be blocked from YouTube and ublock was having issues that were soon fixed, brave never got a single pop-up asking to disable your adblocker once. Also you can use some VPN adblockers that work through blocking it from your network like AdAway.

[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Basically, yes.

[-] Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Genuine question here, whenever these posts about browsers come up (which is very often) I never see anyone mentioning Opera. What's the reason for this? I seem to remember it being very popular with the tech crowd a number of years ago, that might be misremembering on my part!

[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Opera is owned by a weird group of Chinese investors, collects your data and sends it to China. They also use crappy marketing practices, and the Opera GX "Gaming Browser" is a fucking joke. And their VPN isn't even a VPN, it's just a proxy. Not a company I would trust, especially when there are much better options like Firefox.

[-] Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Oh right, that's not great. I suppose I'll see if I can make the switch to FF

[-] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I thought switching to ff would be painful but the migration tool handles most of the heavy lifting! You will have to sign into most sites again but your saved passwords transfer. Most youll really have to do is just find any addons you use again

[-] Kramt@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

They used to back in the internet explorer era have the fastest web engine. The reason they aren't talked about much these days is because they are yet another chromium browser.

[-] Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Ah I see, thank you!

[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Most filterlists that are used for adblocking will not work with MV3. The allowed number of filter rules is way too low for any meaningful adblocking.

[-] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately only chrome has full support for Dragon professional, and Edge can be made to work. The dragon extension for Firefox stopped working and Microsoft, who now own dragon, doesn't have any incentive to fix it.

The unofficial supper via the ClickbyVoice extension doesn't have a Firefox version.

I would love to hear alternatives that support link numbering and voice commands :)

[-] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Should be in Tech Support. Locking.

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