Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

I think Brave said they arent affected by this

Firefox needs to work on ensuring seamless compatibility with more websites, web apps and so on, because I'm personally very bored with my kids' schools and related services sending out emails and forms with links that simply won't open in FF but are clearly expecting Chrome or Edge where they work fine. Yes, this is on the lazy developers, but if FF want wider scale take-up outside of geeky niche groups then this is the stuff they must fix.

When was chrome or chromium safe?

Bloated memory hole in the last 10yrs.

The way it goes about Sucking up resources convinced me to switch to Firefox completely long ago.

Honestly I'd say the Internet isn't safe, and it's because of Google, fuck you Google. It's not just the wine I've been drinking, it's true dammit.

Also Firefox mobile has nearly all of the extensions as the desktop version so it's more similar across all of your devices. Personally, I use LibreWolf on desktop and Mull on mobile, but they're just tweaked versions of Firefox with some bloat and telemetry removed and preconfigured to be more private.

Welcome back to Firefox everyone! At least if you're as old or older than I. 😁

It's time to fork chromium!

Opera GX has promised to keep MV2 in their code. So I'll just keep using that until I see something different. The other thing is that Opera GX has built in ad-blocker which is pretty much on par with third parties.

Firefox is not the "great browser" you think it is. It has had its fair share of fuckups and failures over the years, like laxed security certificate updates leaving users in limbo.

Google didn't come and just out do Firefox. It was the other way around, firefox fucked themselves with poor management and failure after failure, and people left. Chrome was the new boy in town, and that is why firefox is where it is today.

Also, I would never use firefox, if I do need an alternative browser renderer, I use WATERFOX which is far more privacy compliant than firefix ever has been.

Am I going to die?

What date is is getting rid of mv2? Read the article couldn't find a date

People you can still block the shit of using DNS Adblockers . There are a some free like Mullvad DNS and Adguard.

You can make a windows registry change to have Chrome let you keep using uBlock Origin, with the V2 manifest. It will buy you six more months, basically the enterprise support period.

There was a handy shortcut created by the Security Now podcast you can use as a one-click file to update the policy. The show notes also give a more detailed breakdown of what's going on.

The relevant section in the notes is page 10. The link to the file is page 12. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-995-notes.pdf

After i uninstalled chrome some time ago, i noticed it had been slowing down my entire system even when its not on. There is nothing of worth in using it or any other browser derived from it.

You can always keep Chromium installed for the odd site that doesn’t work in Firefox (my daily driver). I do web development and test in every browser and I almost never encounter sites or features that don’t work in FF. The only one I can recall is something in the Azure Portal, probably because Microsoft wants you using Edge.

Typically, Safari is the laggard and any developer worth their salt would make sure their site works on iPad and iPhone. When a new web standard is released, usually Chromium supports it first but even then, not always. And web developers usually don’t use features that aren’t implemented across the board yet. I know I go to caniuse.com before I use something fresh out the oven.

Finally made the switch to Firefox just 2 days ago. Great so far.

Switch to Firefox

We kept Firefox alive for you all these years. You're welcome.

I hope Lina Kahn goes after them for this BS. They have a monopoly on the browser market and they're exploiting that to further their own interests in the advertising industry.

lol. Obligatory “you guys use chromium?”

Honest question here, since chromium (vs chrome) is open source, can someone not fork an older version, or remove the new code blocking ublock?

I mean i assume it cant be done, but i dont know why

Doesn't Vivaldi have built-in blockers?

I still hope as part of the antitrust ruling, they rip chrome from Google and undo this crap.

I've had good luck with uBlock Lite.

(Yes I could swap browsers but nah).

Even in Vivaldi???

It kills the full version of uBlock but there is a lite version that has fewer functions as well.

I just use DNS or VPN for adblocking , no need for browser addons

Will Brave haves a built-in blocker. So here's that.

didn't firefox remove ublock origin too?