Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

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    3 days ago

    have a million prompts all over zillions of sites”.

    I’m using Ghostery to automatically reject all of those. They pop-in and almost immediately disappear.

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      2 days ago

      Ghostery blocks trackers then sells data about your tracking blocking habits. It was the first tracker blocker I heard of but Privacy Badger is the better one nowadays.

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        22 hours ago

        Not true since 2017 (and even before that it was kinda’ disputed). The adblock part of the business went to Cliqz, a German privacy-focused browser, backed by Mozilla.

        I have downvoted your comment because it’s repeating a popular myth, nothing against you personally.