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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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That's been the better browser since 2008 though.
Ungoogled Chromium and Librewolf really suits my needs, i dont even think about those issues ever since i started using them.
Just use Firefox (or Zen Browser, which is a nice fork of Firefox)
Waterfox
Zen Browser, which is a nice fork of Firefox
I wouldn't trust something as important and complex as a browser to what's essentially a 1 man project.
I in turn wouldn't call a project with 221 contributors a 1 man project :D
Commit history where you see the number of commits per developer tells a different story.
Jesus… how many devs does it take to do a 1 man project? /s
good thing i use brave,i recommend everyone to use it it has great adblocker that wont be affected by mv3.
Brave is fine but still collects a lot of user data and isn't privacy centric from their own perspective. Plus their fingerprint protection sucks
What's to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?
Cromite's only flaw (IMO) is that it based it's built in adblocker on AdBlock instead of Ublock.
I've tried moving to Firefox and I don't know, it just feels ugh to me. (scientific critique, I know...). It's just something I can't put my finger on; Firefox just doesn't feel performative. whether that's a frame-buffer animation thing, or icon shadows, or something else entirely, it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.
Visibility.
See: Helium Browser. Which is already doing this, and shipping full UBO, yet most aren’t aware of it.
What’s to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?
It's a lot of work, mostly. And how many of those V2 extensions are going to continue to provide patches anyway.
it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.
Maybe it's the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.
Not just extensions but websites as well.
Maybe it’s the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.
Well that would certainly explain my irrational fear of foxes.
Librewolf gang rise up
Whether you use Firefox or Librewolf you are entirely dependent on the hundreds of full timer developers Mozilla’s got working on the Gecko codebase.
Has the Librewolf team developed a mobile fork yet?
No, and do not intend to. But I remember they recommended Ironfox, which is very similar and good, imo.
Is Ironfox capable of interfacing with Librewolf? As in sharing bookmarks and credentials? Because to tell you the truth that is the one thing that is holding me to Firefox.
LibreWolf user since a few months ago.
So many people asked “Why not Opera?” When I jumped off the AI browsers.
This. This is why. Didn’t trust em.
I don’t think it’s a matter of Opera being untrustworthy as much as it is the fact that they’re a Chromium-based browser, same as Edge.
I'm just curious as to how this is going to affect duckduckgo browser since DDG is a fork of Edge.
librewolf broke too many websites for me to reasonably keep using it :(
also just keep in mind: it's lack of a fingerprint now becomes the fingerprint.
The default settings do break quite a few sites, but after 10 mins of tweaking it works like Firefox but without all the AI bullshit and adverts
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Man up and take your spyware like an obedient peasant
The enshittification is going on overdrive I see...
Great.. I work in IT so this means MORE "virus" calls because you 100000000% need an adblocker on the web to stop those fake "your computer is being hacked" malicious advertisements from websites.
How about SRWare Iron?
It’s corporate backed, so security may view it favorably over FOSS forks like Helium or Ungoogled Chromium.
There’s a whole slew of Chromium forks that I think are trying to preserve V2 functionality.
Time to polish those presentation skills and deliver a memo to your company, extolling the virtues of Firefox as a company-wide browser instead of the now malware inducing Chrome, Opera, and Edge.
Wont happen. Security teams will block it still. Firefox blocks deep packet inspection which corporate security suites use for monitoring. Its the reason chrome is the default now in almost all companies.
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