Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.
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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 extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • BonerMan@ani.social
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    2 months ago

    LMAO welcome to Firefox, the objectively better Browser. Might also use a custom search engine or DDG while at it.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Why the LMAO?

      Firefox was and still is recently vulnerable to a massive zero day:

      https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/critical-mozilla-firefox-zero-day-code-execution

      Mozilla is now using users for their new AI focus.

      We need to support continuous competition in the browser market through enhanced support and integration of W3C standards. And at the most important, decoupling corporations from the browsers. At the moment, it seems Google is being actively defensive (see manifest v3) against that while Firefox (Mozilla corporate) is just sort of moot on the issue, more concerned with AI.

      As soon as you think it’s “us vs them” and your browser is also owned by a for profit company, we’ve lost

      • muelltonne@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Still better than Chrome. Mozilla is not perfect, but in comparison to Google and its behavior they are saints.

      • BonerMan@ani.social
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        2 months ago

        There are Firefox forks like LibreWolf if you need to be a crybaby about Mozilla being a company that needs to pay their developers with the most user friendly way possible…

        Also their AI is more of a play thing for some of their developers, they need to go with the flow at least a bit. Its also opt in where i am, idk if thats the case everywhere, but if not its opt out.

        Furthermore, from your own article:

        Mozilla has patched a critical security vulnerability in its Firefox Web browser that’s being actively exploited in the wild

        Oh noooo they patched it.

        Keep being a crybaby and use Opera, for all i care you can even install yourself red star OS.

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          2 months ago

          It’s not like we have great options here. Safari isn’t supported on Windows or Linux. Opera has its own issues (like predatory loan apps) even if you’re willing to pay for it. Crossing my fingers that Ladybird will work out, but it has a long way to go (though it did better than I thought it would when I tried it a few months back). Everything else is some variant of Chrome.

          If you need to be on the web at all, Firefox still seems like the best of the shit pile.

          • dan@upvote.au
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            2 months ago

            There’s also the Firefox forks like Zen and Floorp. It’s still early days for Zen, but it’s looking promising.

      • Vanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Unfortunately, your statement probably only deserves bothsides.jxl. Please attempt to honestly and objectively compare things, despite the personal inconvenience.

        They make mistakes, but Firefox and Mozilla are obviously nowhere near as fucked up as Chrome and Google by any measure. And Firefox would only improve if people stopped running back to Chrome when something was not perfect.

        • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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          2 months ago

          As for that context you’re missing, I’m counting them as equally bad because they run the same privacy violating approach to tracking user data and putting it where it shouldn’t go

        • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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          2 months ago

          Maybe actually read or ask for context. I didn’t include it in the comment because I figured that people who care enough to ask would ask

        • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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          2 months ago

          Mozilla is mostly funded by google. With the current cookie laws from the eu to try and stop user tracking, they developed a new solution together.

          Both chrome and firefox analyze your behaviour on your pc/phone/device. Then instead of giving websites the right ads, your browser tells every website you visit (with such ads) all about you.

          So you better not be gay in a place like iraq, and be in need of using your school’s website on a personal computer.