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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (www.spacebar.news)
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[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 117 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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.
[-] Kumabear@lemmy.world 105 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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.

[-] lando55@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago

I used to use Firefox.

I still do, but I used to too.

[-] Alto@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

RIP Mitch

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[-] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 91 points 2 years ago

People are fighting ads and switching browsers.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] teft@startrek.website 111 points 2 years ago

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

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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.

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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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).

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 11 points 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.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago

Fennec is also using Gecko.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 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?

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[-] Blorper59@lemmy.zip 1 points 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.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 77 points 2 years ago

Here's what happening to me: I went to Firefox.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Snowcano@startrek.website 22 points 2 years ago

I, too, happened to me: Firefox.

[-] Cralex@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

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

[-] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 points 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.zone 3 points 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...

[-] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

We're all in this together, brother.

[-] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah! They can take Firefox out of my cold dead hands.

[-] guacupado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years 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.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years 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.

[-] badmemes@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

And before you did what?

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Chrome on Mac

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Did you install Arch on your mac?

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Hm, should I try switching my old Surface Pro 3 from PopOS to Arch?

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Try Hanna Montana first.

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

Google's ads can lick my nads.

[-] holdthecheese@lemmy.world 16 points 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.

[-] miridius@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] pirat@lemmy.world 13 points 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...

[-] sulsaz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

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