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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.
TwoBeeSan ,

My work has edge and chrome. Everything else locked.

Will be seeing ads at work now. Cool.

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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.

ArugulaZ ,

Charade you are, monopolistic asswipes! I switched to Firefox months ago!

circuitfarmer ,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Firefox is a very nice experience. If you’re still hanging onto Chrome, I strongly suggest you at least try Firefox. I suspect most people have very little reason to stay with Google products.

NikkiDimes ,

Man, it’s a shame there isn’t a good alternative to Chrome based browsers :(

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8527cf0c-1a77-4ddf-b55b-bf273052b70d.png

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.

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.

vane ,

(Go)fucky(o)urself(gle)

LotrOrc ,

I’ve started using Ecosia and i honestly have liked my results far more than on chrome

ravhall ,

Does anyone still use chrome? lol.

Chozo ,

Nearly 3.5 billion people do.

"Does anybody still use [literally the most popular product in its industry]?"

ravhall ,

They deserve what they get.

Chozo ,

I deserve ads because Firefox won't render any of the web apps I use for work? Damn.

ravhall ,

What websites do you use for work that won’t work on Firefox?

Chozo ,

Firefox breaks Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, Jira, and several other internal/proprietary platforms I use. Many of our tools are integrated into each other (sometimes on the backend through the API, sometimes on the frontend through an iFrame), and Firefox really doesn't play nicely with these interactions. Either it doesn't like the fact that our apps are accessing multiple sites at a time and throws security errors, or it just doesn't render some parts of the page properly, making them unusable.

For instance, one ticketing tool we use is completely inaccessible in Firefox, because the page breaks after the header and loads the rest into a 10px-wide column that stretches for miles. Works fine in Chrome, Edge, and even Safari somehow.

Some of this could be fixed by using these platforms with their out-of-the-box software which may be more compatible with Firefox, without our modifications. But our mods are there because these integrations drastically improve our workflows, so that's unfortunately not a feasible option for our business.

A lot of this is due to Firefox having stricter standards, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Maybe our developers should make our tools more standard-compliant and that might be better in the long run. But until then, I gotta use what works.

TheOctonaut ,

Firefox breaks…

(Long unnecessary nonsense that isn’t applicable to anyone else)

Maybe our developers should make our tools more standard-compliant

lol. So who broke it?

Chozo ,

(Long unnecessary nonsense that isn't applicable to anyone else)

I was answering a question that was asked directly to me, genius.

ShortFuse ,

Firefox, unfortunately, has been lagging behind. Safari is close to surpassing Firefox if they haven’t already. Safari really made a big shift for actually implementing web standards around 16.4.

  • No HDR - relevant for me because I mod PC games for HDR
  • Dropped PWA on desktop - even Apple went full 180° and embraced it now on Mac OS X. Chrome really gets a good push from this from Microsoft constantly helping push more app manifest stuff since it appears one of their goals is to render more things over Edge PWAs (eg: like the title bar), and resort less to having to use electron.
  • No masked borders - can’t do custom element borders like corner cutting or perfect squircles. Rounded edges only

Chrome is still the absolute best for accessibility. Neither Firefox nor Safari properly parse the aria labels when it comes to how things are rendered. Chrome will actually render text in accessibility nodes as presented on screen (ie: with spacing). Safari and Firefox only use .textContent which can have words beingmergedwhentheyshouldn’t.

Chrome also has Barcode and NFC scanning built right in. I’ve had to use fake keyboard emulators for iOS. Though, Chrome on Mac OS X also supports it. Safari has native support for Barcode behind a flag, so it’ll likely come in the future. Barcode scanning is still possible with Firefox through direct reading of the camera bitmap, which is slower but still good. There’s no solution for NFC for Safari, but if Chrome ever comes iOS, that would possibly be solved. I believe Face Detection is similar, but I’ve never used it.

ravhall ,

Sounds like chrome is going the way of Internet Explorer. Totally ignoring the W3C, and doing whatever they want. That won’t end well.

ShortFuse ,

What? They all have W3C specs. Firefox just chose not to implement them.

You think you’re trashing Chrome, but you’re trashing Firefox instead.

ravhall ,

Well, done of the drafts count. Because they’re drafts.

ShortFuse ,

Even line-height in CSS3 is draft. Saying no drafts should be implemented is a ridiculous standpoint: a standpoint not even Firefox aligns with:

Standardization requirements for shipping features

What evidence is necessary will vary, but generally this will be:

W3C - the specification is at the Candidate Recommendation maturity level or more advanced; shipping from a Working Draft or a less advanced specification requires evidence of agreement within the working group that shipping is acceptable

wiki.mozilla.org/ExposureGuidelines

But keep moving those goal posts.

ravhall ,

🤷‍♂️ whatever you say. I’ll keep on having zero issues with Firefox.

pivot_root ,

Your elitism is showing.

ravhall ,

I’m so elite because I choose to use a browser that respects my privacy lol.

Thank you, I guess?

imaginepayingforred ,

Still working for me

kayos ,

I just use safari. With other options.

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