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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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laughs in Firefox/Librewolf
FF support is getting worse and worse though.
Barely any of the sites I use for work support FF.
Laugh all you want but shit is a bit fucked.
Ladybird is our last best hope and its barely a glimmer.
Fun fact: many sites that say that they don't support firefox lie, their sites usually support it but they never tested it or they deem firefox "less secure" or some bullshit, but with an useragent spoofer, they will work
(Not all sites ofc)
Fun fact: you don't seem very bright.
By "support FF" I mean "can be used in firefox or a derivative with comparable features to chrome".
No worries, play store-recaptcha is coming for you too!
Waiting for another player....
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affects mobile the most obviously... but google's playbook is to basically have forced telemetry always and enforce integrity of their telemetry, and by extension advertising etc.
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/ - this just seems like an ok article for it, I did a simple web search and it came up, but others certainly exist if you dislike the source.
Looking forward to when they remove the old options & force PC users to scan reCAPTCHA QRs:
Those sites will be dead to me :)
QR codes are like the popups of days gone by. With incredibly few exceptions, I refuse to scan them. They are so easy to redirect for nefarious purposes, and you can’t easily inspect the url to know, assuming thats something you even do. Also my phone case covers the camera and it’s a bitch to get open so I’m very choosy with what gets camera time.
On my phone I use URLCheck (available in f-droid). You set it as your default browser app, but instead of opening a browser, it opens a popup where you can see the URL, and use some useful tools like removing tracking parameters or automatically rewriting x.com to xcancel.com. The rewritten URL can then just be forwarded to your actual browser (or whatever app is set up to handle that particular URL).
I still won't actually open random qr code URLs though, especially not ones from google.
Thats new. Thank you for the tip. Installed!
...just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.
Unfortunately, we're fighting an uphill battle here.
We'd need government regulation "protecting privacy", instead they seem all too eager to concede that in a futile effort to " protect the children ".
I doubt SearXNG is going to integrate it lmao, and if they do, someone will fork or i will keep using older versions
Zen is excellent.
For people who want an opinionated browser... Yes. They have sponsored shortcuts which cannot be disabled and they ghost out the option to in the settings. If you want to dig around the about:config and tweak things, fine, but I'd rather use a browser I can make my own. Librewolf is excellently bare bones.
Sponsored shortcuts? They don't have them, i did a clean install only some week ago so i doubt it's a new thing
I haven't seen any of those things yet, but I'll try to keep an eye out. The only one I noticed was a default search engine to Google, but DDG was an easy enough option. I like libre wolf as well, but I'm not a fan of the updating scheme on my system.
Corpo banned it for compatibility with crap code apparently