Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

viking@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Saying this about any corporation’s product is guaranteed not to age well.

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  • parpol@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Chromium (Google Chrome’s base) is also open source.

      And yet, we’re still at a corporation’s mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google’s fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile.

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      • parpol@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Users do want MV3. The people complaining about it are in the minority.

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    • AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So is Android. So is Chromium. So is React, and Flutter. So is Java.

      Open source doesn’t mean FOSS.

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      • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Open source does mean FOSS. It doesn’t mean community-oriented.

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  • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m grateful for FF, but they also annoy me at times. Just little stuff probably not worth bitching about in detail. But also a peek at the potential for problems that you’re talking about.

    So of course I’ll bitch about it.

    I call it the “stop whatever you think you’d rather do right now and pay attention to our product” type shit.

    Imagine you have a combination wrench and whenever you take it out of the toolbox it starts yammering at you about how great of a wrench it is and all if its shiny features. Fucking ridiculous, right?

    So why do we tolerate software that does that?

    Way too much software does this pushy shit. Just stay outta my face and do your actual job, software.

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    • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because people have the attention span of a goldfish and if you aren’t reminding them every 5 seconds of the features they have available they’ll forget they do in fact use them and then complain to support because they can’t spend 5 seconds on the help page.

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re so fucking used to ads we don’t even ways realize we’re getting pushed propaganda

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Firefox is a foundation, not a corporation. And I’m already using Fennec instead of the official release.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. Firefox is a product. Mozilla is a corporation AND a foundation.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, it's strange just how readily the blinders go up wherever Mozilla is concerned. They're a corp, just like any other; if they had the money and leverage, they'd be just as aggressive as Google.

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But they haven’t yet and haven’t threatened to yet, so as a comparison they are better.

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      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Absolutely, but Mozilla is pretty much owned by Google anyway, and falling in love with these companies as wide eyed fanboys never looks good when they eventually turn.

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    • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You forgot to also mention that they are a cult where you get attacked if you say anything negative about Mozilla.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You forgot to not shill for an actual corporation

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mmm mmm mmm, Bill Cosby tells me to love my puddin’ pops!

    …i feel sleepy…

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• chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1000023325

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Librewolf, my beloved.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is the first I’ve heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good?

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      • ivn@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You really shouldn’t connect windows 7 to the internet.

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      • jrgd@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        librewolf.net

        A summary from its site and known technical details:

        • no telemetry by default
        • includes uBlock Origin
        • has sane privacy-respecting defaults
        • prepackages arkenfox user.js
        • relatively well-maintained fork of Firefox that keeps up with upstream
        • No major controversies AFAIK

        As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do.

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Looks like it should run on Windows.

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    • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ❤

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re overreacting. Firefox knows their users. I am a huge “stan” for Firefox, but I will delete it like a time traveller if they make it impossible to ignore ads. I will salt the earth and poop on Firefox’s grave and actively avoid it everywhere… However. If I’m wrong, there will be a Next Thing…

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m using Fennec, which doesn’t have that. But as long as it’s a flick of a switch to disable, I don’t really mind. Still a million times better than manifest v3.

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  • TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers.

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    • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Firefox is no longer an adversary to Google for the browser market, if it ever was. FF has become a vassal of Google that with its tyranny is dictating the course of the internet, such as WEI that as far as I know it was abandoned at least for now.

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  • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least link the full article and not just the headline… smh. Here is also the follow-up article with comments from Firefox’s CTO. heise.de/…/Firefox-defends-itself-Everything-done…

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone else been having issues of not being able to load YouTube videos past the first few seconds on Firefox using ublock? I couldn’t find any recent information online. I don’t know if this is part of the war on ad blockers, or unrelated.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s been a side effect of the server side ads apparently, but reloading the page fixes it for me.

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  • errorlab@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, yesterday. I just kept refreshing. FF + unlock + not signed in, seems to trigger it

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I watched several videos today on Firefox with ublock origin and no issues. Haven’t run into issues with ads yet.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haven’t had that issue, nope

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