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Clearly, Google is serious about trying to oust ad blockers from its browser, or at least those extensions with fuller (V2) levels of functionality. One of the crucial twists with V3 is that it prevents the use of remotely hosted code – as a security measure – but this also means ad blockers can’t update their filter lists without going through Google’s review process. What does that mean? Way slower updates for said filters, which hampers the ability of the ad-blocking extension to keep up with the necessary changes to stay effective.

(This isn’t just about browsers, either, as the war on advert dodgers extends to YouTube, too, as we’ve seen in recent months).

At any rate, Google is playing with fire here somewhat – or Firefox, perhaps we should say – as this may be the shove some folks need to get them considering another of the best web browsers out there aside from Chrome. Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has vowed to maintain support for V2 extensions, while introducing support for V3 alongside to give folks a choice (now there’s a radical idea).

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

There's still Vivali which is Chromium based and still supporting V2 extension (like uBlock) until June 2025. Its not a full fix, but its a stay of execution. That said, I'm a FF primary user.

[-] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago
[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I'm already mad about having to potentially abandon my highly customized Vivaldi should ublock lite not work up to my standards

[-] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Is a combo of ublock lite and Vivaldi's own blocker insufficient? They made updates to allow custom lists, I think. What about a network wide blocker like a pihole or adguard.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I have no idea why people are downvoting it.

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee -4 points 2 months ago

Vivaldi isn't entirely open source, if that matters to you.

Brave would be my recommendation, I just disable the crypto stuff.

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

Brave's CEO is so anti-gay, he dished out 4-figure checks to fight gayness.

I'm not a fan of that, and Brave has issues with being Chromium-based, like Vivaldi.

[-] RedStrider@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

this reads like a yo mama joke

[-] theorangeninja@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Only the UI part is not open source.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Brave is a series scam company.

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