Sucks to be whoever’s still using that fucking spyware
The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months
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https://www.techspot.com/news/112722-end-ublock-origin-chrome-now-weeks-away-not.html
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bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
I find it astounding how people are so resistant to change to something new even when they’re in a literal shithole
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I will take “Things I don’t have to care about since I ditched Chrome over two years ago.” for $900 Alex.
usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Chrome messing with my uBlock Origin extension, disabling it and uninstalling it when all this started, was the last straw. I promptly made the jump to Floorp/Firefox and even though I was scared for a long time to switch, it was all good and have zero regrets. I’m very happy I ditched Chrome.
Klear@piefed.world 1 day ago
I held out until the first ad got through adblock (about a year ago, I think?). Switched the same day. Should have done it a lot sooner. I thought it would be a whole thing, but I was set up i a few minutes.
usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yep! Same experience with setting everything up.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
I was scared for a long time to switch
But … why?
I’m honestly asking here. What’s so scary about using a different browser? I’ve got (let me count…) at least 6 different browsers installed on my current machine, switching between them for different tasks each of them is better at.
It’s not like switching from Windows to Linux, where you actually have to say goodbye to Windows (maybe) in order to make the switch. You can easily install Chrome and Firefox, using whichever one suits you at the moment. So what’s so scary about switching?
usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
15 years of use, everything synced with Chrome and I wanted to also decouple browser dependency for password management say the same time. Not knowing if Firefox is up for the task. In many ways.
But everything is fine. I don’t feel I made a compromise.
AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because Firefox is still the same legendary memory hog it’s always been
morto@piefed.social 1 day ago
This teaches us that being open source is not enough. If it’s managed by big tech, it’s still not good. Technically, anyone can take the source and make a fork, but in practice, it’s rarely viable for smaller groups to take a big project and start maintaining it. The same applies to android
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 20 hours ago Excellent point. The way a project is governed should always be a consideration when evaluating software, especially for large and complex projects like a web browser that can’t easily be forked.
In the case of chromium, basically all the main developers are Google employees … so it’s no surprise there hasn’t been a viable fork.
I really wish we had something like the “linux kernel” of web browsers…
adarza@piefed.ca 1 day ago google did play this long game pretty well… get mozilla on-board with webextensions format. get microsoft to adopt chromium for its own brower. use every trick in the book, legal or not, to gain marketshare. then start the rug pull. first: neuter the adblockers (we are here), next (and there will be a ’next’) will be killing ad or content blockers and manipulators completely.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
I think next step would be forcing chromium-only web development so FF or any other own-engine browser would not work properly on most common sites. That’ll kill other browsers in an instant.
It kind of works already, seeing that a few complain about FF not working properly on some sites. Also, FF cant catch up with some features GC has like HID support. Anything which is not chromium is way behind and cant catch up. We are in a desperate need of something that is really good and is 3rd party (preferably OSS) to counter browser market monopoly. It is not monopoly yet, but damn it is on the edge.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 17 hours ago
Yeah, people call me stupid, but I have been complaining for a while about Google using its market power to bully standards that only benefit itself.
The one I got flac a lot for was the https thing. Like yes, https is good, but it also ads an often unneeded layer of complexity for small time web stuff. It also makes it slight a pain for local stuff since you can’t https an IP, it needs a domain.
On top of that, it harms one of Google’s main ad/tracking xompetitors, ISPs. Now, we can debate if tracking is good or not (its really not), but beside that point, Google has a zillion other ways to track you, ISPs, less so, they are not embedding tracking pixels and shit or backdooring your browser history. And Google gets to kneecap them by penalising anyone not using https.
They tried to do the same thing to other competition by pushing to kill cookies, but backed off. Once again, is tracking good or bad? Not the debate here. But Google tracks you other ways, many of their competitors in the ad space use cookies. Or track traffix on their networks (ISPs).
Tracking good or bad is debatable, but lack of competition in pretty much anyspace is bad.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
USB through the browser is deliberately not added to Firefox
FishFace@piefed.social 22 hours ago
HID support? We browsing the web with a game controller now?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
See what they don’t understand is that I, and many people like me, hate watching ads more than anything, and can, and will, stop using the entire Internet if it’s all just ads. YouTube is already so shitty that it’s basically already there, and I stopped paying for it and because it’s so shitty now, hardly watch YouTube, trending quickly to zero.
Congratulations, Google. You’re ruining everything.
- SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
next (and there will be a ‘next’) will be killing ad or content blockers and manipulators completely
They already tried that!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
Fortunately, they jumped the gun on it, and it was shut down … for now anyway, but yeah they’ve clearly shown their intentions.
iceberg314@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Seriously, who is still using Chrome in 2026?
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Bro. Have you seen browser marketshare graphs from recent years? It is dominated by chrome and chromium-based browsers. HELL OF A LOT of people use chrome in 2026 and it wont slow down any time soon.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago This one damn bank website does not open right in Firefox. I had a good quarter of my clients at that bank.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
When the entire pool is piss, it’s time to get out of the pool.
Meruten@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Thats why I leave Edge installed by default in Windows. You need a chromium brower from time to time, why not just use the one provided?
maggio@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
At work I am forced to for compliance reasons. At home: laughs in firefox
Zier@fedia.io 1 day ago Hello
[waves in Firefox]HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Seriously, who is still using Chrome?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Dude, Chrome has 73% of market share worldwide. 3 out of every 4 people are using Chrome. Sad to say: a lot.
- SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
Dude, Chrome has 73% of market share worldwide
Internet Explorer had that too at one time.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 17 hours ago I’d be fine if Firefox had slightly higher market share but selfishly I confess I’m happy being in the small minority who block ads.
If blocking ads was majority behaviour, corporations would fight against it way harder than they do today.
qqq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ugh why is time on that bar graph decreasing to the right?
Corvidae@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Apparently Firefox still supports MV2.
trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
They do, but it should also be noted that Google’s implementation of MV3 was specifically designed to target adblocking and we know this because Firefox’s implementation of MV3 still enables full adblocking capabilities. So even if Firefox does away with MV2 entirely, uBlockOrigin can work with their MV3.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
it supports it and the dev for ubo has outright had benchmarks that ubo blocks more stuff on gecko engine based browsers vs chromium based browsers even during manifest v2 era.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
So, about that Zen browser…
- SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
I’d recommend you just switch to Firefox instead, and make that work for you.
Zen browser (like many of those custom browser forks) is just someone’s pet project, and is highly dependent on what Firefox is doing anyway. It’s cool to use sometimes, but I wouldn’t want to depend on it to stick around or be properly maintained in the long term.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Politely
No.
Those “personal pet projects” are why Google and FireFox exist as many pieces of their projects often rely on open source components often maintained by a single person.
These pet projects also strip telemetry and respect your privacy.
aol@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
thats why i use brave.
redlightdistrict@beehaw.org 14 hours ago
You know that’s chromium based… You’ll lose access as well
aol@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
yeah i know,i use the default adblocker of brave. brave.com/ublock-origin-alternative/
foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I will say that the best thing about having an OS install on an unsupported machine is that Chrome and even Chromium Legacy (buggy as fuck) no longer work with a damn.
Not that I ever used the browser in any real way, but oh, it’s nice not to have to fret over this MV2 horseshit… (laughs in firefox dynasty…)
JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Will this play into the chrome spinoffs like brave? I know the opinions of brave are strong here, and I don’t care. I can change settings to eliminate their bullshit. i have to admit that the add blocking in brave is pretty damn good and is a big reason I have stuck with them.
aol@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
i think yes many users will switch to brave once they see chrome cant block ads as good anymore
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
. . . FOR SUCKERS
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
Maybe then Chrome can finally die.
ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Google will ramp up their sabotage of other browsers and browser engines, so idk
Our main choices being the browser funded by Google, the browser funded by Google, or the browser funded by Google.