“Phase it out” implies they created it in the first place.
What they meant was “Forcibly stop our customers from using a plugin from a 3rd party developer”
Literally none of Microsoft or Google’s god damn business and a reasonable country would heavily fine them for breaking consumer protection laws.
The part that would piss me off the most about blocking Ublock isn’t even the ads, I use Ublock to hide annoying non-ad elements on things, like blocking the AI on Google searches.
The part that would piss me off the most about blocking Ublock isn’t even the ads, I use Ublock to hide annoying non-ad elements on things, like blocking the AI on Google searches.
and any banner images i don’t like
If Firefox ever drops ublock it will be time to abandon browsers altogether and just read the magazines in those weekly torrent dumps. Set up search in your torrenting software and you don’t even need a browser
We are long overdue to declare web bankruptcy. This whole paradigm of turning the browser into an operating system unto itself and allowing every random webpage to run scripts on your machine which fingerprint and track you is probably the greatest mistake in the history of computing. This architectural choice is the cornerstone of contemporary surveillance capitalism.
The only upside was OS interoperability which has made it easier to switch away from Windows, but it has come at too great a cost
2027 is the year of the good Gemini.
Mozilla fundamentally can’t block ublock because Firefox is FOSS. All the other mainstream browsers are proprietary. Firefox is licensed under MPL.
Some extensions get removed from the Firefox extension site, such as addons that promote copyright infringement, because Mozilla can’t legally promote that stuff. You can however still install extensions from files.
Even if the main Firefox browser executable from Mozilla were to block ublock extension, then people could legally fork the Firefox code to make their own browser.
Isn’t chromium also (supposed to be) FOSS? Or am I misremembering
FOSS ceases to be democratic when a company like Google funds its development. I don’t know of a fork of Chromium that declined to move to manifest 3, but there probably is one.
Yeah hence “supposed to be”
I’m only semi-tech-literate, what is this manifest 3 thing and why does it kill Ublock? And if chromium is open, shouldn’t forks be able to modify whatever manifest 3 is to restore the abilities Ublock needs?
I don’t know all the details but I believe uBlock Origin relies on very long lists of servers that serve ads and declines to download from them, and manifest v3 limits the length of those lists so that they have to pick and choose which ones. Hence the uBlock origin lite, the lists are shorter.
Just another reason why I’ve been using this browser for 20 years. Not changing anytime soon.
Is this news to anyone? Also, if you put Edge or whatever Chromium browsers in a category other than Chromium, then Firefox is not the only one since all Gecko browsers also support uBlock Origin (Waterfox, Librewolf, Zen, Floorp and whatever).
Microsoft Edge? a “major browser”?
Its still the default for the technologically illiterate
No disrespect to anyone but a metric fuckton of people have little to no tech knowledge and no desire to change that either.
i disrespect the fuck out of the second part of that.
I mean, I get it for some people but this is a case where, at least I think it depends. Like, I dont begrudge my old grandma for not getting computers… she barely handles her phone.
With that said, I do agree that at least some modicum of tech knowledge is simply advantageous for your own success in a world dominated by technology.
Like, Im on Linux and replace my own PC parts. I dont think Im particularly techadept but I know some of the very basics and how to troubleshoot. Im just aware that a lot of folks don’t.
My parents manage to use it regularly even though I put Firefox as their standard browser in everything. They will then complain about the ads on the internet.
Literally once a month this happens.
Counterpoint: there are things Edge does better than Chrome.
“There are things cat shit does better than dog shit”
dog shit website
I still use the .crx in ungoogled chromium for the full version. But chromium isn’t my default
Is it going away in Chrome? I use it and have ublock origin lite rn
Lite is what’s left after real chrome ubo got killed by google
As I understand its been gone in chrome for a while and the lite version is the only one you can use.
Same tbh
