We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago

Google is not killing uBlock Origin, it is making its Chrome browser even less user friendly. Just use Firefox or a Firefox fork.

[–] terusgormand8465@lemmings.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Clickbait and misleading title, they're putting in motion what they said they would do for years. That being the manifest v3 change to extensions, and the deprecation of manifest v2.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 13 hours ago

The www has already gone to shit anyway thanks to SEO bullshit websites and AI generated garbage. Most of my online interactions are via applications these days. The more these companies ruin the www the less I find myself using a web browser.

[–] Soluna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 14 hours ago

Here's hoping this pushes more people to Firefox

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

What is this "chrome" thing I keep reading about? Be right back, my wolf needs to be fed.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

In other news:

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I wonder if the web itself may bifurcate. Corporate, government, and most NGO websites will only respond to corporate browsers that run sanctioned DRM binary blobs to “verify” their “safety”. And then there is us, with our websites and our web clients.

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

librewolf

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Librewolf is fine for now, but it is small tweaks tracking FF’s codebase. I think that given Mozilla’s trajectory, at some point someone will have to do a hard fork.

Someone could do a hard fork of Chromium now, for that matter, but I’m not aware of any so far.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

It seemed a lot more reasonable 15 years ago. The default on Windows at the time of Chrome's rise was Internet Explorer.

I am watching Ladybird with great interest. The world needs a new-from-the-ground-up browser.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Either ground-up or a hard fork. Or both. Both is good.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 0 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I know people who don't care about ublock so I guess it's not relevant. People who care about ad blockers should just move to Firefox or brave

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

is Brave's ad blocker as good as UO?

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 1 points 11 minutes ago

Can't complain. Been using it for ages now and I am happy with the experience

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Brave is chromium

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 1 points 10 minutes ago

Yea but someone brave is doing exceptional work. They still got a good Adblocker

[–] Emeraldlink25@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Brave has a built-in adblock. No extensions required.