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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) (www.spacebar.news)

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[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 82 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

what i don't get is all the people complaining about google and at the same time using their browser...

i believe that trying to steer masses away from chrome would be more useful in the long run than trying to make it work

[-] mtpender@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago

Just use Firefox

[-] TheSun@slrpnk.net 26 points 5 months ago

Seriously... enough of this "oh well its not that bad, atleast we can still do this, or that. Maybe blockers will work but with less features, etc."

Fuck that shit

The extra [API] functionality already allows uBlock Origin on Firefox to work better than the Chrome version.

Always has been.

Tired of getting fucked by chr0me and g00gle? Stop spreading your cheeks and just use Firefox (librewolf, mull, et. al.) and uBlock Origin.

Simple as.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Until Mozilla caves & Fx fully adopts Manifest v3. I hope it doesn’t happen but would not surprise me in the slightest if they did

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

people are somehow allergic to firefox

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

I use FF as my primary browser on my desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.

As much as I love and support FF and the Mozilla Foundation, I find that some websites simply need a Chromium-based browser to function properly. It's frustrating as hell.

I wonder how many people tried FF, had their favourite site stop working, and then switched back to Chrome.

[-] bw1faeh0@feddit.de 12 points 5 months ago

Until now I never had issues with Firefox.

But here in Germany the fanbase of ff ist larger. Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?

That's an interesting observation. I'm not sure, since I'm in Canada.

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago

If you properly use firefox personalised the way you want it, it gives you shitty unusable websites in Europe too. Banking says no, newspapers being buggy to unreadable with certain script blocking or cookie refusal, disable adblock to continue windows etc, it all exists here too. I always try ff. If really needed I open the shitty site in edge and afterwards return to ff... Also public (tax payer funded!) flemish radio and tv for example is completely unusable in ff with proper settings, works "perfect" in edge or chrome. German and Dutch public TV and radio works fine in ff tho.

[-] melooone@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

I've been a long time FF user, and if I encounter a buggy site I just wouldn't use it. Only problematic site is fucking Teams, and since I can't just stop using it, I'll switch to brave for the meeting and right back to FF after.

[-] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

That's perfectly fine for some things, but for most people letting their browser choice dictate what sites they use is backwards

[+] Ptsf@lemmy.world -14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Firefox has absolutely destroyed the battery of most mobile devices I've tried it with. Any ideas on fixes to get it at least to parity with chrome? In-use power metrics seem fine, but if I let it sit Chrome will allow the system to go into low power/sleep while firefox tends to just keep things running somehow? (Not sure why there's down votes here... I use Firefox by default whenever I'm on desktop and this is a real issue I experience on my mobile systems (M1 pro mac, Intel/Windows laptop, M1 iPad pro, and amd/Linux (steamdeck)). I'm also genuinely interested in solution recommendations... Like I get you love Mozilla and firefox, I do too, but I can't substitute one for the other when it causes a significant shift in my device use paradigm.) (For the continued down votes, 1. You're the reason people don't want to use software you like 2. I've tested this on my machines and it's very real, only occurring when firefox is running and not related to system settings).

[-] corbin@infosec.pub 12 points 5 months ago

I haven't run into that issue with Firefox on my M1 MacBook Air. Maybe try the Firefox reset feature, it's possible some extension or other user data is breaking something and needs to be wiped.

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I'll give that a shot! Thanks.

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

Is it possible this is site-specific? The only issue I've had with Firefox on my MacBook was leaving pinned tabs open on pages that dynamically refreshed. Gmail, for example, would eat up memory over time. So I killed that pinned tab and I haven't had issues since. I still have Discord pinned without issue.

On iPad...I dunno, Firefox on iPad is a hard sell without extension support so I haven't used it much. I've been trying Orion lately, since it has a built-in ad blocker and is otherwise very similar to Safari in terms of performance and functionality.

I only run Linux on desktop so I'm not sure about battery life there. Is Firefox actually blocking sleep? I think Steam Deck runs a version of KDE, so perhaps you can use the kde-inhibit command to list and control blocks.

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I honestly have no idea. I assume it's some issue with background processing or something at an engine level. Nothing Chromium or webkit based seems to suffer the same issues, but perhaps it's just an issue with my Firefox account or an extension that doesn't behave properly with the browser. 😓

[-] Digger9850@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Ok you’re back to zero again bro haha. Oh always use my safari btw

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I tend to use a mix. Safari for the Apple devices since it gets first class citizenship seemingly, then Firefox on anything stationary, and then Chromium on mobile.