Microsoft Edge is ending support for the Manifest V2 extensions platform, which will cut off the uBlock Origin adblocker and others like it, just like Google Chrome did earlier this year. According to Microsoft, there are only 58 extensions on the Edge Add-On Store “with any meaningful usage” that still use MV2, and only three […]
How long until someone creates a render proxy that loads requested pages, reprocesses the result without the ads, and send that rendered output to your actual browser
Out of fucking spite.
Massive, massive vuln for a lot of utilities which use edge by default but use ad blockers to prevent malware ridden ads from playing on their machines.
Librewolf
Lol, people actually use Edge for more than downloading a real browser?
No other top comments required. Edge is just Explorer 2.0. How else are you going to download FireFox if Firefox isn’t installed?
Winget
Easy. Use PowerShell:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=win64&lang=en-US" -OutFile "$env:TEMP\FirefoxSetup.exe"; Start-Process -FilePath "$env:TEMP\FirefoxSetup.exe" -ArgumentList "/S" -Wait; Remove-Item "$env:TEMP\FirefoxSetup.exe"and people make fun of linux users
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people use edge?
Office PCs come with it
I did for YouTube only, since I’ve 100% ditched chrome. I use LibreWolf as my default browser but a lot of the lockdowns on it has made YouTube a little glitchy
Yes, they do. It’s the default and convenience is king. If most people were aware enough, we wouldn’t be in the state that we are.
