mesaGoogle pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
TheFeatureCreatureMeh. They had plenty of time to move to Firefox but they ignored all the warnings.
GhostalmediaIt’s not like they contracted some sort of terminal illness. Anyone can migrate whenever. It’s not hard.
talI believe that some organizations restrict what applications can be installed on work computers, so that might not necessarily be true, at least for work machines.
m-p{3}One more vector of malware for these corporate systems. Sucks for them I suppose.
if they’re restricting apps to that degree you probably can’t install extensions anyway.
datendefektMy organization has blocked all browsers other than Edge and Chrome - and has also blocked all plugins except for UBlock. For security reasons, of course.
Everyone knows seeing a bunch of uncontrolled JavaScript-powrered ads from who knows what server is good for security.
For all the firefox fans out there it might be good to note there have consistently been more Safri users than Firefox users since 2014. Hell Safari has been the number two browser by market share since 2015.
Browsers have to get very SHITTY or a new browser has to have a killer app to unseat a dominate one.
I don’t think safari is even remotely comparable given that it’s a default browser on macs.
sensiblepuffinAlso, I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to install any other browser on iPhones unless you get root.
Those are all just skins on safari. Until like 6 months ago you couldn’t install any web browser with a renderer other than safari. And that’s only in the EU.
I’ve had iPhone for years and I can’t remember the last time I didn’t use chrome with it
Never rooted my phones either. It’s definitely not blocked
As I understand it, any browser on iPhone has to be built on WebKit, so even if you install fire fox or chrome, it’s running on a totally different web engine than the desktop version. Making them more safari re-skins in the same way that stuff like brave or opera are just chrome reskins.
How so ? The default browser on Windows is Edge, people keep installing Chrome? Chrome is available on MacOS, yet people stick with Safari?
some people stick with safari, but no one is replacing chrome, fire fox, or edge with safari. People choose to replace edge because it is obtrusive and annoying to use, safari isn’t.
In that context, safari is not a competitor for Firefox in the same way chrome is. It’s comparing apples to oranges.
Almost like being the default gives you an unfair advantage or something.
And I mean, there’s still time now. Switching browser’s isn’t that bad. Export+import some bookmarks and adjust some settings, good to go.
I think FF has been a good option for a while. But the second best time is now. I can totally get it if people didn’t want to switch until they had more of a concrete problem.
FF still hasn’t brought back a tab group API for extensions or native tab groups. Extensions can only do so much given what they have to work with. I still use FF on the side, but it simply isn’t a practical as a primary browser for me currently.
But for casual users, many probably have never even touched their browser settings.
Tab groups are coming but in the mean time containers work well enough for me with the added benefit that they’ll also block tracking from the sites that are within them.
Understandable, I’m really looking forward to FF getting tab groups too. I don’t know why such a nice feature was left unimplemented for so long. 🫤
shortwavesurferFirefox downloads a spike by 30 million. Will be the next headline.
Followed by shocked pikachu face.
One would hope but nothing much will change in reality.
Although searches for Firefox only ticked up slightly.
I’m using brave so who cares…
Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?
Also, it’s chromium so… You’re getting V3 eventually.
I have years using it a never been crypto scammed for it, about the V3 I truly don’t know apparently you will still be able to turn some V2 extensions like unblock origin but I didn’t see the point of it if the browser include a good adblocker anyway.
EngywookSame. The adblocker in Brave is great, its been ages since I ditched uBo and I’ve still to see a single ad. Built-in adblockers are good, because Google has no power there. Firefox, instead, its still a thing exclusively because of uBO i.e., the work KF an external, unpaid developer. The say uBO disappears, is the day FF dies. Mozilla is so busy wasting time and money on unrelated stuff and huge CEO paychechs that they have had nkr the time to add and inbuilt advlocker to FF, which instead has useless crap such as Pockets and an opt-out ad-measurement tool which nobody asked for.
Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?
Revealed by who? Where? Brave definitely has some unsavoury connections to cryptocurrency but calling the entire project “just a big crypto scam” sounds like a massive exaggeration of the problem.
nocturneBrave was found to be injecting their affiliate links for crypto.
blog.drhack.net/brave-browser-injecting-crypto-re…
Brave Browser Injecting Affiliate Links
Brave browser advocates itself as a browser with concern of our privacy, security and ad-blocking capabilities. That sounds all good but Brave browser has been found injecting their own referral links when you open various cryptocurrency websites. That is something unprofessional, unethical, illegal and BAD. I always vouched for Brave even have a banner on
Yes, that’s what I was referring to. A very far cry from “just a big crypto scam”.
IDK why you waste time explaining these kind of things to these kind of people mate, I mean someone who define that as a “big crypto scam” doesn’t even know what’s a big crypto scam.
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pushing crypto on users
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injecting crypto affiliate links
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installing other Brave software without permission on your PC when you install their browser
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an obscenely high marketing budget that misled people about data collection on Brave
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a CEO that was fired from Mozilla for being openly homophobic and donating money to a campaign that wanted to undo the legalisation of same-sex marriage
Stop using Chrome, it is adware at this point. Use Firefox or if that’s too different, use Edge or a different chromium offshoot that isn’t going to support manifest v3.
zewmWeird that you tell people not to use Chrome because it’s adware but suggest Brave which is a crypto miner.
Brave has built-in wallet support and such, but I don’t think it does any mining, does it? It just has its own opt-in ad system to pays out in crypto and is also owned by a turd.
I dumped Brave when it decided to install its VPN as a service without my consent. I had so much trouble ripping out all the traces of that.
I completely forgot about that. Yeah, it’s fucked.
Imagine if you bought a Microsoft game, say Forza, and it installed a bunch of candy crush games alongside it without asking you.
It’s scummy as fuck.
Vivaldi is similar but nicer.
Tywèle [she|her]Being owned by a turd is reason enough not to use it.
False. Try again.
Man I just tried to throw out a Chromium fork that didn’t use Manifest v3, I didn’t realize Brave went off the deep end. Personally I use Firefox and Edge when I need to use Chromium and for work just because I find it’s dev tools nicer.
Used Chrome forever, switched to Firefox back when this stuff first started going down. No ragerts.
0^2No Rugrats!
I just listened to a rugrats song yesterday though.
kratoz29Which one?
You’re a friend to me.
This headline is premature. They haven’t pulled the plug yet. I still have Chrome installed, fully updated, and all the extensions are still there.
katy ✨and also ublock origin lite is still in the app store and works fine.
I glanced at itnand from a quick look I didj’t see any way of adding custom blocklists.
kirk781uBlock Origin Lite is a Manifest v3 compatible extension and was intended to be the successor of uBlock Origin on Chromium based browsers.
However, it is not at feature parity(and will likely never be due to restrictions in Manifest v3). One restriction is no element picking on websites and then adding them to custom filters.
CzeronWhich is pretty crazy because I believe that’s about to be a built-in feature of a new Safari update.
but for 90% of people, it’ll be fine
TeknikalI’ve used Librewolf since the first time Google announced these kinda plans I’m thinking it must be at least 3 years now.
Theres tons of options Librewolf is overkill to be honest Firefox would be fine.
I think lots of people are overestimating how many will migrate to Firefox in the near future over this.
- High switching cost compared to finding another extension (e.g. uBO Lite).
- Just as some Firefox users like Firefox, many Chrome users enjoy what they have too. They don’t want to lose that.
- The kind of tech-aware person who’d switch over this is much more likely to have seen the news months ago and taken action already.
As fun as it is to imagine an Adpocalypse shocking the masses and getting them to try out alternatives to big tech, it’s also way too optimistic, I feel.
I’ve been on Firefox since manifest v3 was announced. Firefox has its own shortcomings but no dealbreakers.
What are some shortcomings in your view?
I don’t like the lack of customisability. I’ve been using Vivaldi for a long time now and nothing comes close to how customisable and feature-packed it is. Everything can be set up and tweaked exactly how I want. My version of Vivaldi would look, feel, and act entirely different to someone else’s, because it does what I want, not the other way around.
Unfortunately, it’s Chromium-based. But the developers have been working on its native ad blocker in case extensions are impacted. They’re quite a brilliant bunch, so I’m hoping it all goes smooth. I really don’t want to have to go back to Firefox if I can help it. I can’t stand UX for the masses and these guys get it.
Yeah, same with people here declaring the death of reddit, or Twitter, or any of these massive, mainstream services. People in bubbles (and Lemmy is definitely a bubble) always seem to underestimate how little everyone else cares or even knows about the things that are important to them. The service needs to be extremely bad in a user experience way, not an ethical way, for an extended period of time and there needs to be a big social movement where lots of people migrate to a direct and equivalent competitor within a short space of time. Most people will not do it on their own, they will wait until they see their peers doing it and only then can a migration start to snowball.