• atro_city
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      It isn’t? I just read that the “Chrome MV2 deprecation enterprise rollout” is in June 2025. When is the exact date for the end v2 support? “The changes will be rolled out over the coming months to Chrome Stable, with the goal of completing the transition by the beginning of next year.” is not “predictable”. It can be any time between 2024 November to 2025 April, maybe even May.

      Imagine giving that kind of a time to friend “yeah, I’ll show up probably at the beginning of 2025, but that’s the plan, it may be all the way until June 2025”. Very “predictable”.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s really standard to leave some time for users to adapt when making a big change. Especially end users. It’s actually a good thing, the “friend showing up” analogy makes no sense.

        End of support for users is June 2024.

        But it did seem to have changed a year ago or so, my bad.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because someone said 10 years ago that it was slow, which is since parroted by a ton of people that would not notice it in any real life scenario.

    • Krzd
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      It feels clunky to me. However ads are so much more clunky that I’m gonna switch the second Vivaldi stops working properly.

    • Coriza
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      I started with Firefox when I was a teenager yet, and when the first chrome version dropped it was awesome so I migrated. I think I was at uni at the time and Google was seem as a good thing. Gmail was just a couple of years old and was awesome. Webmails at the time was rought.

      But chrome changed, and goodle changed. But many years into it was hard to move away. For me the biggest single problem with Firefox was that I could not kill tabs in the tabs “process manager”. I keep a lot of tabs open and no browser really solved the problem of many open tabs and tabs that keept open for many weeks. A lot of websites have “memory leak” and slowly but surely grow and grow with memory usage (YouTube is one of them). So that and a bunch of tabs made the usage of the kill tab a must. Over the years I looked for extensions to both organize the tabs better and also not have to keep só much of them opened. But nothing really helped me change my bad habits. I almost migrated back to Firefox when they had the tab groups feature. But they removed and also removed some functionality that made easy to change the whole browser but was a security nightmare.

      Anyway, things have changed and I am in the process of migrating. I can kill tabs in Firefox now. I was missing the group tabs feature from chrome, because I got used to it but I think Sideberry can do that and also help manage a lot of tabs/windows and also snapshots. I use session buddy in chrome. But that fucker failed me many times and I had to recovered the lost saved sessions. That kinda leave worried with Sideberry and use more of the advanced tab management stuff. But at least I noticed today that it can auto-export the snapshots to the external FS and then no matter what happens with the extension DB I can always recover it.

      So Yeah. Took a minute but I think I am almost ready to really migrate.

      TL;DR: Getting too comfy with a closed platform is a bitch.

  • @hperrin
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    The longer they put it off, the more unnoticed it will go when they finally do it.

    • Scrubbles
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      Exactly, every time it’s close the roar against it gets quieter. They’re banking on that

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    Didn’t uBlock origin just stop working with Chrome?

    • @cm0002
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      Still working for me

    • @renzevOP
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      I don’t know, maybe

      • @marcos
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        So, you post this after the one blocker that worked stops working, and then you didn’t notice?

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          Because we use Firefox or one oft its forks.

  • Engywuck
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    DNS blocker + browser built-in adblocker (+ system-wide AdGuard). Be my guest.

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      Any browsers with good built-in adblocker besides brave? I feel like firefox’s built-in content filtering does the very minimum, but I might be wrong

      system-wide AdGuard

      This is the way on mobile lol. The android rom I’m using comes with a built-in systemwide blocker, which I didn’t know about for a very long time, so I was very confused when I saw other people using the same apps as me and seeing ads lol.

      • @PlasticExistence
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        Firefox Mobile supports most desktop extensions now, so Ublock Origin works too

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          Extension != built-in and some people prefer to avoid FF.

          • teft
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            Why would anyone avoid firefox?

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              Because I don’t like Mozilla and don’t want to give them market share. And, well, because it suck badly.

              • naticus
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                Any objective reasons?

                • @Pieisawesome
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                  A real answer, they pay their ceo millions, and they are hiring gen ai and ads engineers.

                  They stopped focusing on their core web browser product

                • Engywuck
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                  LOL, why should I justify my choices to a stranger on the internet? I don’t like Mozilla. Full stop.

              • @[email protected]
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                Can you quantify why you don’t like Mozilla?

                I understand why someone might find Firefox itself subpar in some cases, but I’d like to hear what your issues with the organization are.

          • DarkThoughts
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            Avoiding FF while supporting Chromium based browsers is just the most nonsensical moronic shit I’ve ever heard in the whole browser debate.

            • Engywuck
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              Whatever. Keep donating to Mozilla and their dying, shitty browser and leave me alone. I didn’t want to start a debate.

              • skulblaka
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                Google will eat you up and spit you out and you will have no one to blame but yourself.

                • Engywuck
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                  The same Google that keeps Mozilla alive? Mozilla’s shills are so boring and short-minded. Just leave me alone. Nobody asked your opinion.

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              Because I don’t like Mozilla and don’t want to give them market share. And, well, because it suck badly.

              • @[email protected]
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                Fair enough, are there any non chromium alternatives that are decent ATM? I haven’t looked at alternative browsers for some time.

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            Why do you want Google to have hegemony over web standards?

            • Engywuck
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              Are you seriously implying that that 2% of FF market share is what avoids the “hegemony”? lol.

              Mozilla has worked very hard to sabotage FF. I’ve been a loyal FF user since 2002 and finally showed them the finger in 2021, when they confirmed that they don’t respect their community. They are just another corp now. So, why should I use an inferior browser from them?

              I won’t reply further. I didn’t want to start a debate and I’m quite pissed off of Mozilla advocates.

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        To my knowledge there are no browsers that have anything similar to brave built in. Ublock simply is incredibly well made (that’s what braves adblocker is based on), so I would always try to use that. Gnome web has in my experience the best built in Adblock except brave (fine for everything but YouTube). AFAIK Firefox forks can change what the built in content filter blocks, at least on librewolf some ads were missing even with ublock disabled.

        • shrugs
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          Give it two more years and brave will stop backporting manifestv2, then you have even less options to avoid google deciding which content needs to be shoved in your face.

          I’m using Firefox since forever. In the past I have checked a few times if a swap to chromium is worth it. It never was.

          I really don’t understand people that prefer Google over Mozilla. Firefox works like a charm and Google already knows enough about us IMHO.

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            I really don’t understand people that prefer Google over Mozilla. Firefox works like a charm and Google already knows enough about us IMHO.

            Firefox objectively has poor responsiveness in some apps, hence why some “works only in chrome” banners are justified. Can’t quite put my finger of it, but it got a lot worse somewhere between quantum and heartbleed(but not because of it, I checked), and it never recovered. In my own projects that were time-sensitive, like 3d games and music apps, I couldn’t find the source of it, but found that while some approaches led to major performance hit on firefox, others majorly hit chromium, and vice versa, and it was all about juggling to finding an approach that doesn’t hit either as hard. But in some cases there were none and so I had to choose. Obviously the browser engine with a higher market share wins. And because of that, to be on par with Chrome, Firefox not only has to be better, it has to be not worse in all cases, which is a rather tough challenge.

      • atro_city
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        LibreWolf ? First thing that came up when searching for a non-chrome browser with builtin adblocker.

        • @renzevOP
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          The term “built-in” is a bit fuzzy here. Librewolf just uses ublock origin. It’s only “built-in” in the sense that it’s installed automatically

      • Engywuck
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        Vivaldi and Opera have one, as well, but I never really used it for long.

    • shrugs
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      to see it smash

      I’m not really sure why I expected here but I was satisfied anyway

    • @grue
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      Expected a Rickroll; was disappointed.

      • Nougat
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        Good thing you can add extensions from places other than the store.

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          But uBlock Origin does not set update_url in it’s manifest.json so it won’t update automatically. You’d have to do it manually every time.

          • Nougat
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            Oh no, I guess it’s impossible for that to ever change.

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              It’s a good thing to be able to communicate without sarcasms when it’s not called for.

              But I don’t think it’ll change, feel free to try and make a PR but you’ll also need to setup a server to host the releases and update.xml.

        • @renzevOP
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          Not sure why the downvotes. I generally try to avoid extensions apart from ublock origin, but if I really need something, then I always get it from the developer’s github, not from chrome/firefox store. WAY TOO MANY cases of open-source extensions getting hijacked with malware on the store but not on github. Remember cookies.txt? Or great suspender? Or stylish?