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

  • cloudshouter@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    I was on dial-up internet well after most people had moved to dedicate higher speed connections. It was very obvious then that websites were just piling more crap in and I was thinking about how much of a problem that trend was going to be for our hardware. That wasn’t even considering how much those companies would be dipping into our time, sanity, and privacy.

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      17 hours ago

      I still design my personal web pages like we’re in the modem days. Mostly text, and the images are highly compressed jpegs with tons of artifacting. No javascript. It’s a lot of fun