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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

  • Google is transitioning Chrome’s extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
  • This means users won’t be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
  • However, there’s a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn’t boast the original version’s comprehensive ad-blocking features.
fine_sandy_bottom ,

This is as good a place as any to challenge firefox users: what are you doing to support the project?

Using their software doesn’t support them, unless you search with Google and I doubt many users reading this do.

Mozilla may be deserving of criticism, but criticism alone does not support them.

I fear that one day we will lose firefox.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

What’s even worse is every time someone mentions Firefox, some chucklefuck has to go hardcore negative on everything Mozilla does that is 1/10th as shitty as Google. Just shut your piehole if you don’t like the only somewhat private open source browser.

Chozo ,

Let's be honest, Mozilla is only 1/10 as shitty as Google because they're 1/100 the size. If they had the resources, they'd be just as awful. They've already shown us how awful they can be at their current size, I can't imagine how bad they'd be if they were at Google's scale. Firing your employees and giving your execs bonuses is 100% a Google-like move, and the only reason they stopped at a few hundred employees was because they didn't have more to give.

Just because they make a good open source product doesn't make them immune from criticism.

2xsaiko ,
@2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

You severely underestimate how shitty Google is. I highly doubt Mozilla would try to pull shit like Web Integrity or making their sites work worse on competitor browsers on purpose even if they were as large as Google. (Though, maybe to become as large as Google they would have to start doing this kind of shit so you might be right in some way.)

riquisimo ,

Soooo you’re saying I should donate to the Mozilla foundation?

BakedCatboy ,

I pay for Mozilla VPN and relay throwaway email addresses. And I seldom use either it’s basically just a donation.

tibi ,

My biggest worry about Mozilla is that most of their revenue comes from Google. What’s stopping Google from demanding that Mozilla does certain things to Firefox, like forcing them to reduce the ad blocking capabilities, just like Chrome?

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I think that specific concern is unfounded, but it’s obviously problematic that their revenue fines from Google.

That said, everyone has been trying to find an alternative for the last decade, yet here we are.

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BlameThePeacock ,

Switching back to Firefox in the next few weeks. Fuck you google

NateNate60 ,

What did the fact checker bot ever do to you?

Estebiu ,
@Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Shh, we dont talk about that here…

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Fact checker bot is BS. It should be banned.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Just block it and you won’t have to see it any more.

catloaf ,

That doesn’t fix the problem. MBFC is firmly biased, and presenting it as unbiased is positively harmful.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Sure because if I don’t see it the problem is solved.

NateNate60 ,

I wonder why you hate the fact-checkers.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I don’t hate fact checkers.

I dislike this bot.

leftzero ,

Spread disinformation.

Label anything short of outright fascism as “left leaning” in an attempt to shift the overton window even further right than it already is in the US.

Spam.

It’s malware, it’s harmful, and it should be banned.

kokesh ,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

What a disaster… USE FIREFOX

finickydesert ,
@finickydesert@lemmy.ml avatar

Even the FBI sent a warning imploring everyone use AdBlockers

loudWaterEnjoyer ,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624

Rehydrate054 , (edited )

Could use Brave, built using chromium but has ad block built in.

Edit - have been made aware that brave is not ideal - Link

Edit edit! - Yeah, Brave’s CEO sounds like a grade a dick. I’ve switched to Firefox for sure. Not been here in a while.

ByteOnBikes ,

No thanks. Brave got some serious problems and you might as well use Edge or something that isn’t owned by a bigot.

Rehydrate054 ,

Oh shit, I’ve only got a few lines into the article but will read the rest soon. Ty.

Kethal ,

I used Firefox when it first came out. Google and Mozzila got into a hot race to make the best browser and they both did well. Somehow I ended up using Chrome a lot more even though I thought that by the time the race ended they were pretty even. Both were very fast and had great plugin libraries. Chrome looked nicer out of the box, but Firefox is highly customizable. Since the end of that race, Chrome has gotten worse and Firefox is about the same. I’ve switched back fully to Firefox, and the only thing I miss is the “Piss off publisher frames” plugin, that I haven’t found a replacement for. It’s a nice browser.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I switched to chrome for several years. Back then I was using Gmail and google docs et cetera. I naively thought Google were the good guys.

At that time the chrome ui was better. As an example, Firefox still had a separate search bar and address bar, although you could search in the address bar if you wished.

More recently I think the “nice ui” thing has tipped back towards Firefox. Chrome seems to have evolved some extra buttons.

Kethal ,

Yeah, it’s ironic that one of Google’s selling points was that Chrome didn’t have a lot of clutter. It’s even where the name comes from. Now it looks messy. It’s no Microsoft product yet, but it’s definitely one of the ways it used to be better.

billiam0202 ,

As an example, Firefox still had a separate search bar and address bar, although you could search in the address bar if you wished.

The advantages of that was you could set the URL bar and search bar to different search engines. I would do a Google search with the URL bar while keeping the search bar set to Wikipedia. Eventually this feature was removed, and then the search bar itself (since there was no reason to search from the URL bar and a dedicated search bar.) It’s a feature I missed for a while, but I got over it.

feannag ,

You know you can set up custom strings to use different searches, right? E.g. typing w: and then your search string to search Wikipedia.

billiam0202 ,

I’m aware there are probably a hundred different ways to do what I want in Firefox, and that 99 of them are probably easier than the way I do them already. Now I just keep a Wiki tab open for when I want to search something.

zueski ,

I have never understood the desire to combine the search and the address fields. I occasional search a url when I forget the rules for what it thinks is keyword. It just seems like a scheme to collect more data by bouncing your intended site to google and increase your reliance on them rather than being a real UI feature.

jay ,
@jay@mbin.zerojay.com avatar

I would be on Firefox myself except that I need Webassembly that functions at a decent speed and It's about 30-100 times slower on Firefox than it is on Chrome and hasn't changed in yeeeeears.

vanderbilt ,
@vanderbilt@lemmy.world avatar

Hopefully the DoJ case against Google includes getting bent over a barrel for abusing their position as a market maker to force their revenue model.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Skill issue

saltesc ,

Aw man. I really like Vivaldi for its productivity and customisation. Guess I’ll have to go back to FF and try trick it out some.

TwoBeeSan ,

My work has edge and chrome. Everything else locked.

Will be seeing ads at work now. Cool.

mindlight ,

If you want to avoid ads it might be a good idea to not use products from a company which primary goal is to make money on ads…

But hey, what do I know…

Omgboom ,

Susceptible to malware even

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