An explanation of Manifest V3, why it matters, and what uBlock Origin is doing about it.
    • El BartoEnglish
      35•2 years ago

      Well, you say that, but this is what happened to me: I went to Firefox.

        • @Cralex@lemm.eeEnglish
          12•2 years ago

          I was using Firefox back when it was cool. And now it’ll be cool again.

            • El BartoEnglish
              4•2 years ago

              I briefly lived in the dark side of IE6 because AOL fucked over the Netscape browser so badly. But then I came back like the prodigal son when Firefox (then Firebird) came along.

              • @legios@aussie.zoneEnglish
                3•2 years ago

                Yeah I remember IE5 and NS4, as well as the Firebird/Phoenix/Firefox naming joys back in the day.

                If you want to blow your brains out, try getting XHTML 1.1 working in IE6. It is indeed possible if you modify the XHTML DTD. Interestingly it’d render shit so much better since it’d use MSXML instead of Trident as the rendering engine. Sadly it would add about 400k to the page since it needed to load a custom DTD…

  • HoptrainEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    I am forever grateful for my father having Firefox installed on the xp hand-me-down that became my first computer

  • @holdthecheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15•2 years ago

    Interesting that article comes to the conclusion that uBlockOrigin Lite is basically as effective as the original and works on the new Manifest v3.

      • @helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        Every other Google Chromium fork will need to maintain an increasingly complex set of changes to the Google repository

        Yet infinitely easier than building a new browser from the bottom up

          • @helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
            2•2 years ago

            I hear people say Chromium is bad for the web all the time but they all seem to think that Chromium = Chrome.

                • @Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  4•2 years ago

                  Because using Chromium and Chromium-based browsers reinforces Chrome’s market share dominance which will harm comparability as more and more sites will only be tested against Chrome and in many cases refuse to serve pages to other browsers without user agent string fuckery.

                  It also cultivates dependence on Google for the extension ecosystem, etc

      • teftEnglish
        112•2 years ago

        Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.

      • ThePowerOfGeekEnglish
        36•2 years ago

        For anyone interested, as of November 2023:

        Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox’s engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox. Edit: and Fennec

        Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

        Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

        The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple’s engine), and Blink (Google’s engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

        • DojanEnglish
          11•2 years ago

          I’d no idea there’s a browser called Conkeror. That’s prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE’s Konqueror browser.

        • @Blorper59@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          I thought it was pronounced Kay Melly-on, so I never tried it because of the silly name.

          Pihole will be unaffected.

        • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          I use firefox, but Id never head of these alternatives.

          Anyone who does have reviews? Pros, cons, reasons to use them beside variety?

          • @krakenx@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            Pale Moon still supports the even older extension model. I used it briefly until my extensions got updated to the newer format. I still kinda miss the old theme engine.

  • EkkyEnglish
    115•2 years ago

    So, in short:

    • Google is not killing ad blockers, but merely chopping off both legs and arms in the name of security.
    • ublock Origin is implementing a lite version for chromium browsers, supposedly being pretty decent given the circumstances.
    • Old Manifest V2 extensions will be disabled in June 2024 and Manifest V2 will be removed in June 2025.
    • Firefox is Firefox.
    • Privacy and security focused chromium based browsers will have to implement proper native ad blocking.
  • LazaroFilmEnglish
    62•2 years ago

    Thanks to Lemmy, I’m browsing on Firefox on Linux Arch…

  • @pirat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•2 years ago

    When I went to read the comments of this post, and for some reason it took 10 sec for them to show up in my client, I thought of Google…

  • @Kumabear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    107•2 years ago

    I am now using Firefox…

    I mean I was using Firefox before this, but I also am now as well you know.