Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.
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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • kautau@lemmy.world
    84·
    19 days ago

    As someone who uses Vivaldi, which has a significant number of power user and customization features, the fact this is no longer a thing is fucking bonkers to me

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround-firefox#%3A~%3Atext=Firefox+Last+updated%3A+6%2F6%2Chttps%3A%2F%2Fmzl.la%2F3JM0ViX

    I can turn on an unsupported flag to make the UI a little cleaner for me

    To me, it’s wild that the browser for the user decided to deprecate an option like that. Since they dropped XUL support I have very few options on customizing my browser outside of a theme or just writing my own CSS

    From there, I’d just point to:

    https://vivaldi.com/features/

    Firefox pulls in like 500 million dollars a year from Google. Barely any of those features exist in Firefox

    I started with Firefox. I used it from day one, when it was an experiment coming out of the Mozilla suite.

    I want to use it day to day so bad

    But it’s become “how do we chase chrome”

    And occasionally they get wins like this. And it no longer feels like

    “How can we be best?”

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      6·
      19 days ago

      You can customize the Firefox UI with CSS, if you’re looking for really advanced customization capabilities.
      I’ve made a one-line theme as my ‘compact’ mode of choice, where URL bar and tabs are all on one row, but you can find lots of pre-made themes out there.
      See !firefoxcss@lemmy.world for more info and help.

      And well, you shouldn’t compare Firefox and Vivaldi from a monetary side.
      Mozilla develops their own browser engine, which is really important for the web, whereas Vivaldi only really develops that customizable UI. If Google stops publishing the source code of Chromium, Vivaldi is dead in a few months.

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        17 days ago

        It looks really good, not quite as good as Vivaldi but hopefully it gets there. One thing that bothers me is the CPU requirement, that is bonkers, you can’t run a browser if you don’t have a decently modern CPU?