Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo—the two other major non-Chromium browsers out there—support uBlock Origin.

    DDG’s browser is using webview, meaning it uses chrome on Windows/Android. Also not what I would consider a major browser.

    Even if Firefox drops support, it’s doubtful that many of its major forks will drop support.

    For those who want to use something other than a Firefox fork, there are some options.

    • Brave has built in ad blocking, but you need to disable a lot of their crap. There are scripts out there that can do it quickly.
    • Helium is in beta, but it bundles uBO.
    • Orion is currently only available for macOS, but it has a beta for for Linux available. It can install extensions from both Chrome and Firefox.
    • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Brave Origin on Linux is free, it’s the one that has the extra garbage ripped out. I don’t like braves practices but as a security person I really do admire how Brave Shields functions. Graphene said they were interested in lifting shields off of brave to put in vanadium but it currently wasn’t a top priority.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Brave’s founder and CEO is a bigot who spends his money lobbying for his abhorrent views. Don’t support that piece of shit.

    • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      And sad that, even so, Firefox has been a rounding error in global usage data. 😢

      I’ve been using Firefox since it existed, never been disappointed. I just hope that it (or Mozilla) didn’t eventually go bankrupt and dies. You can say what you want about the politics and financing of Mozilla but we desperately need them to prevail.