Comment by calabast@lemm.ee on Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions

You say that like they didn’t just remove several other adblock extensions themselves

No they didn’t.

They’re still there. Ublock origin is the god-tier adblock, and it’s still there. It’s even a Recommended by Mozilla extension.

I know people on Lemmy often, for some reason, hate Mozilla more than Google or Microsoft, but Mozilla very much still caters to people who want to block ads, despite the disinformation on Lemmy.

I think people don’t hate Mozilla, they want them to do better as there are not many options left if you care about privacy. It’d just be nice to not have to pick the lesser evil for once.

And they are doing better. Making ads private is a very good thing. They’re currently a privacy nightmare.

They are not making ads private, they are adding another tracking vector. This will not get rid of the other ones already there.

No they weren’t. Clearly you don’t know how this system works.

It is impossible to track anybody using this.

You are getting angry at Mozilla for making something that enables privacy, then getting angry at them again because they aren’t dictators of the web who can control everybody’s and networks.

I don’t think Lemmy users hate Firefox. I feel like alot of it is either people who legitimately have whatever needs they have, fulfilled by chrome more than firefox, or…it’s fucking astroturfers/fanboys.

Edit Addendum: Also, if anything, Lemmy users fucking love Firefox.

I don’t mean all Lemmy users. I mean a surprisingly large amount that non-stop hate on Mozilla and Firefox.

I’ve even seen two users that hate Mozilla/Firefox so much that they wrote about it in their account bio, which I find crazy.

Mozilla have made a series of unpopular choices, especially their enabling of telemetry for advertisers that does nothing to benefit users.

It is no surprise some people are vocally unhappy.

Private ads that make user tracking impossible absolutely benefits users, and the ad industry would be a lot less of a cancerous cesspit if it were the norm.

It’s certainly been unpopular, but that’s more because most people on Lemmy don’t read past ragebait headlines and assume the worst.

shrugs in books

They have no idea how stubborn I am.

From what I’ve heard, they only “removed” uBlock Origin Lite. Normal uBO is still up.

Actually, they flagged UBO Lite and the dev removed it himself in a fit of pique.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2474353/popular-ad-blocker-removed-from-firefox-extension-store.html

and they only flagged it because it violated privacy rules

No. It didn’t. That’s why he was upset. Mozilla even admit this. Did you read the article or what?

“Mozilla later admitted in an email that they had made a mistake regarding the extension, but Hill has ultimately decided to cease development of the uBlock Origin Lite add-on for Firefox.”

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issuecomment-2383629057&xcust=2-3-2474353-1-0-0&sref=https://www.pcworld.com/article/2474353/popular-ad-blocker-removed-from-firefox-extension-store.html

Except they didn’t… If you read more than headlines

The one they removed isn’t relevant until Firefox also removes manifest V2 which they have no plans for.

Firefox has a different manifest v3 that still retains webrequest functionality, so even when they do switch over it’ll be fine.

Careful, there are some edgy people out there who don’t want to use more than one browser because Firefox doesn’t work with their cameras /s

Meanwhile, I’ll still be using Firefox too

Who needs to give their browser access to their camera?

I do this with Discord and Zoom as an alternative to installing their actual apps. 99% of the functionality is there anyway, and the 1% is stuff I don’t want anyway

I use MS teams for meetings every day at work, in Firefox, in Linux. It’s nice that even the camera works when I need it to.

It’s so frustratingly annoying. I primarily use Firefox, but switch to Chrome for specific Google services on my mobile. Once in a while, the search suggests I take a photo? Why?

Y’all got any more of that data?

/Google

People who have to use their browser for telehealth and virtual teller banking access.

Sadly these are also things that require better security.

Yup. Firefox doesn’t work for me unfortunately, so I have to maintain Chrome on at least one device for these things

Hey, member when you always had to have IE for one of “those” sites and it was basically just an awful browser everyone was forced to have like as a legal requirement or something?

Heh. IE. Then when you’d use it to download firefox it’d say “Nooooo! Wait! I’m teh Best Browser!!” Hahahahah

IE. Ded.

Does it have to be Chrome, or just e.g. Chromium is fine?

That’s a good question. I don’t know that I can fully uninstall Chrome from my Tablet, only disable. Since I use it maybe a handful of times a month it isn’t a big deal to just use it for the session. I don’t feel the need to have another browser right now, but I appreciate you bringing that up

I use Firefox for some teleconferencing, but my therapist’s software only works on chrome

May be bad phrasing, but Firefox doesn’t support h.265 so there’s limitations with streaming video on some camera platforms and other sites.

TIL Firefox doesn’t support HEVC. Hadn’t really noticed that before, I guess it’s why some Jellyfin streams started transcoding for me.

Neither does it support HDR content

I guess it’s why some Jellyfin streams started transcoding for me.

You’re better off using the Jellyfin Media Player standalone application anyway.

I know, it’s just handy to sometimes open the website, don’t have to have anything installed. Normally I watch through HTPC that had Kodi with Jellyfin integration. That’s a fantastic combo, best of both worlds.

It is supported in the nightly build and full support is in the works currently.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/hevc-support/idc-p/63424/highlight/true#M36557

People who use Webex, zoom, etc for one use in try browser and don’t normally use those links. Happens at work when an outside vendor doesn’t use what we do.

Why not LibreWolf? It’s Firefox without Mozilla’s BS.

Haven’t heard of it before now

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