An explanation of Manifest V3, why it matters, and what uBlock Origin is doing about it.
  • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1181·
    1 year 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.
  • KumabearEnglish
    1072·
    1 year ago

    I am now using Firefox…

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

      • teft@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1121·
        1 year ago

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

        • AceticonEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          I went from Netscape to Mozzila and from Mozilla to Firefox and, guess what… my browser never fucked me up in the name of maximizing corporate profits.

          Google was already a wholly untrustworth Ad Company With A Tech Arm back when they invented Chrome, and shit like this was already back then a question of WHEN, not IF.

        • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          My recommendation is librefox and if you really want a chrome based alternative I’d suggest Thorium (although I don’t know what thorium will do when this is implemented I’m hoping they don’t follow it.)

      • ThePowerOfGeekEnglish
        361·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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.

        • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

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

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

          • krakenxEnglish
            1·
            1 year 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.

        • Blorper59@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

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

          Pihole will be unaffected.

                • EvilcoleslawEnglish
                  4·
                  1 year 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

    • El BartoEnglish
      362·
      1 year ago

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

        • Cralex@lemm.eeEnglish
          121·
          1 year ago

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

          • glorious_albusEnglish
            81·
            1 year ago

            I used Firefox before chrome even was a thing and never moved away. Fuck chrome.

            • El BartoEnglish
              4·
              1 year 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·
                1 year 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…

              • glorious_albusEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                You’re an even older user than me then lol. I think it was '08 or '09 when I started using the internet.

            • guacupadoEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I went to Firefox when Chrome had that huge memory leak issue.

  • LazaroFilmEnglish
    633·
    1 year ago

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

    • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who went on a bit of an open-source mania because of all the Linux and FOSS nerds on here.

      • VictorEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        It’s a great lifestyle, been a Linux main for about 15+ years, or around half my life so far. Highly recommend it to anyone who thinks it’s fun to use good software.

  • holdthecheeseEnglish
    16·
    1 year 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.

    • miridiusEnglish
      52·
      1 year ago

      I’m glad you read the article, since it seems like nobody else in the comment section has!

  • piratEnglish
    13·
    1 year 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…

  • HoptrainEnglish
    82·
    1 year ago

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