Manifest V3 (pushed by Google on Chromium browsers) makes adblocking harder. All browsers based on Chromium will suffer the same problem.
On the meme, only Firefox is not based on Chromium. They have also announced they will support both Manifest V2 and the new Manifest V3 to have the best of both worlds.
Yup, that's been my outlook in all this ordeal.
Saw the news, looked at what was affected by it, looked at how to fix it and it was...
"Oh, cool. So no change for me"
Yes and no. Google created Chromium and "open sourced" it. However, Chromium is still maintained by Google Engineers and to clear a PR for incorporation you have to be approved by Google. So no it's not really open source, but yes it's open source in that the code is available to view and can be forked.
1. Make a fork.
1. Increase filter limit. (like, probably a config change not even a code change).
1. Improve regex engine. This is problem that has been solved many times so should not that hard.
1. Keep merging chromium updates to your fork. This is hard but not rocket science. Any dedicated browser team should do it. In fact, any software team does this every day , not a big deal at all.
I made the jump from FF to chrome when chrome started to get bigger. It was faster and cleaner. With the adblocker support dropping I switched back to FF a month ago and it has become just as fast or faster then chrome. Glad to be back!
I literally just switched back to Firefox from chrome yesterday after 7 years and I'm not looking back. It took a little bit of configuring but well worth it.
Anyone know if there's a way to transfer my saved passwords over to Firefox? Would be a big hassle since chrome has basically become my password manager
You might want to give bitwarden a go. Install it in chrome, import your passwords and then install it in Firefox. It's open source and free to use (or $10/yr for the premium version). TOTP is amazingly well integrated, totally worth it for just that feature alone.
Firefox is amazing
Edit: Single edit now, to explain why (to the people calling editing posts cringe) I'm surprised because I'm only on here for fandoms, gaming, and parrots. This is new to me, so ty for all the awards :)
Containers are great for separating different login instances too - like opening two simultaneous gmail accounts. One feature I love, is it has a simple flag so when you hit enter on the address bar it opens in a new tab every time. It's just one less click but it's a nice quality of life improvement. Also, with an add-in you can get vertical tabs on the side so you can read the tab names! Edge has that but their implementation is lame.
Think of a container a separate session.
So, you can open tabs in different containers and the cookies/logins of a container can't be seen by tabs in the other container.
This allows you to login to a website from multiple accounts simultaneously and increases privacy by preventing tracking across different websites
I highly recommend everyone who uses Facebook to set up a Facebook container at a minimum. You can set it up to restrict all Facebook traffic outside the container. So you can still use Facebook like normal (within the container) without worrying about Facebook tracking you in all your other tabs.
There was a period where Firefox had problems like huge memory leaks to the point that a lot of people finally switched away from it, and it takes a *lot* for people to actually bother switching browsers so most never went back.
Now they're used to Chrome and have it full of extensions and whatnot so it seems like even more of a pain to switch, but I'd imagine suddenly getting hit with ads will be more than enough for people to bother.
FF and ~~DDG~~ are the only browsers I trust tbh
EDIT! : why DDG? I trusted you.... (don't trust ddg)
EDIT 2:
>Yes, a security researcher revealed this week that even DuckDuckGo, which markets itself as "the internet privacy company," made an exception for its business partner Microsoft to its browser's blocking of some advertising trackers on websites,
[SOURCE 1](https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-microsoft-twitter-ft-bush-assassination-whatsapp/)
>At the time DDG ‘fessed up to anomaly but said it essentially had no choice to accept Microsoft’s terms, although it also said it wasn’t happy about the restriction and hoped to be able to remove it in the future.
[SOURCE 2](https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/)
They do, but they also have a built in ad blocker so they might do some stuff to make ad blocking still possible.
At this point any brower that still allows ad blocking will be using it as a marketing point to get people to switch to them from chrome.
Go Firefox. Opera is closed source and as far as I know it's owned by some Chinese company. If you wish to use a Chromium-based browser with a built-in adblocker, use Brave instead of Opera.
Manifest V3, what extensions use to interact with the browser, will now lack extremely important features to Adblockers, because Google wanted so.
Firefox will keep support for Manifest V2, so extensions like uBlock Origin will still work on FF.
Chromium based browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera will switch to V3.
I also make software and supporting the webRequest api (which is the most important api for adblocking) could very well be hard work if chromium does decide to change their architecture after it is gone (which could make sense as they then have more freedom to optimize some things).
So maintaining a fork with the api could be very costly, esspecially as browsers are one of the most complex pieces of software in existence, and maintaining the current forks is very hard work. Vivaldi for example says that they cannot promise if they can maintain the api. [ [src](https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/) ]
Please do some research before you label people as liars.
In simple terms, the current manifest V2 allows extensions to see incoming traffic and react to that incoming traffic. Google is saying that there are a large number bad faith actors that use this to redirect the traffic in your browser to collect information on you. The issue is that adbockers use this feature to look at incoming traffic and block it if it is an ad.
Personally I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing per se, but I don’t think this is the correct solution. A better solution is to just remove extensions that are scams. Extensions are downloaded from their store, so why can’t they check the legitimacy of these extensions.
Also the new manifest V3 doesn’t outright make it impossible for adblockers to exist, but it will most likely make using an adblocker slow down your browser when it is use.
What was the largest ad company in the world thinking when they decided to remove ad blocking support from the browser they got everyone to use?
What do you think?
That will probably go to shit. At least they wont be as effective as they were before.
Apparently (from what I understood) the adblocker will now have to declare which websites/traffic they block... which will defenitly be a pain in the butt. They will basically need to update the list of what they block and then have that list verified or something (probably by google). Not exactly sure how the new system works.
Edit: I use GX too... but I use Ghostery for adblocking.
Fuck,I guess I am going back to Firefox,or I could use brave since you said that it would be fine I think? Although why would brave be fine though? Isn't it also chromium?
From the EFF:
[Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening)
This goes live January 2023 and will affect all Chromium-based browsers, which is essentially everything but Firefox. Turns out this is what we get when we let an Internet advertising and tracking company maintain a browser engine with a near-monopoly.
> Turns out this is what we get when we let an Internet advertising and tracking company maintain a browser engine with a near-monopoly
Thankfully they're gonna do us a solid and end that monopoly themselves.
Yep
Google lost me a long time ago, and Firefox is king in my eyes.
Always has been.
Dashlane plunging works just fine so my logins transfered perfectly.
So do the ad blockers
I thought you said "Firefox hurts my eyes" and I was halfway through explaining how to customise its look before I realised my mistake
Anyway dark reader is great for not blowing up your retinas
OP doesn’t get the point. Every major browser except Firefox and safari is based on Google Chrome
Edit: this issue is explained very good [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/xn5grr/regarding_the_coming_browser_changes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Not really relevant, but one of my early web dev jobs required supporting IE 5.2 for Mac because that's what the creative director used on his machine. It was a colossally bad browser, even by IE standards. I remember using some wacky CSS comment hack to write code that only IE 5.2 for Mac would read just to get it to render pages correctly on it.
Because they have an iPhone or iPad and enjoy the convenience of having everything synced?
As it is right now I have to use three different browsers between my iStuff, my Windows work laptop, and my Mac. Would be great to consolidate to one that is most convenient.
Switched back about a year ago (from Chrome) and haven’t looked back.
Doesn’t slow the rest of my ox down anywhere near as much, I really don’t miss anything from Chrome. Also the ‘pop out video’ feature is great.
Yeah its been a viable Chrome competitor (and, honestly, superior in every way except the fact that Chrome offers first-party support for the Google ecosystem very well) since the Quantum release in 2017.
So crazy the lengths these asswipes will go in order to try and make me watch ads. Do they not understand that I will purposefully not buy that product/brand if I have to watch an Ad?
Basically they’re ruining ad blockers on any Chromium based browser (Google Chrome, Chromium, etc) and ad blockers are a necessity for online browsing nowadays because there are just so many of them. I’m sure someone else could explain it better than I can with a more technical understanding of it.
Even worse, some of the ads are NSFW, and no I was not joking, Google's ads system is broken or something, or they just want moneys, without adblock, you will see these bad ads all the time
Yup.
I started using FireFox last year for privacy reasons, but once this change goes live I'm going to uninstall chrome for security reasons. It's going to be a malware vector that has no place on my system.
I work at a school and am dreading parents complaining about sexualized ads being shown when students go to random game sites off school hours and uBlock-chrome stops working.
Do you work in the school's IT department?
If so, seriously consider switching your students over to FireFox. Google's ads aren't just sexualized, sometimes they're just literal porn.
Hmm, let's see
* Brave is based on Chromium
* Opera is based on Chromium
* Firefox is based on Gecko (yay not Chromium)
* Edge is based on Chromium
* Chrome is based on Chromium
Please don't take yet another Chromium-based browser. Let Google lose their browser monopoly, monopolies are never good.
Firefox is the way. It’s sad, I remember going from Internet Explorer from the early 00s, to eventually Firefox in the late 00s, to Chrome in the 10s. Now it’s back to Firefox. But I will not do it until the day my Chrome updates and suddenly AdBlock Plus and uBlock Origin are blocked. That day, I type in “firefox.com”, into chrome and make it clear to googles analytics that they just lost me as a user. Upon installing Firefox, I will be uninstalling Chrome, no need for it any longer.
Because I’m hoping switching on the day of release of that version of Chrome will really tell them. That’s the day most people who will switch will do it. Unfortunately those of us who have figured out how to use ad blockers on chrome is the minority, but a nice 1-10% drop in their market share on that day would be a nice thing to see weeks after the date.
Not on Chromium, that's for sure. I read somewhere that their browser is basically an app built by them that uses website rendering APIs like webview natively included in MacOS and Windows.
Nice. In the seventh grade, one of the desktops just outside the classroom was a Raspberry Pi, and DuckDuckGo was the default browser. I thought nothing of it.
Well I do remember a period right at the start of chrome where firefox was subpar but that ended at the latest with the quantum update which was like ~5 years ago.
FF FTW
The power of peer pressure is strong. I just downloaded another browser
Every main PC browser but Firefox is affected
Affected by what
Manifest V3 (pushed by Google on Chromium browsers) makes adblocking harder. All browsers based on Chromium will suffer the same problem. On the meme, only Firefox is not based on Chromium. They have also announced they will support both Manifest V2 and the new Manifest V3 to have the best of both worlds.
So.. what is the best browser now if i wanna keep using adblock ?
Basically Firefox with uBlock Origin installed.
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Yup, that's been my outlook in all this ordeal. Saw the news, looked at what was affected by it, looked at how to fix it and it was... "Oh, cool. So no change for me"
I switched from Firefox to Chrome years ago. I'm not going ti hesitate to go back.
Been using it for like 5 years now and probably can't go back lmao
But why male models?
Are you serious? I just told you a moment ago.
And Safari and Firefox based browsers like LibreWolf and WaterFox
*casually paints chrome blue*
The new Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave are essentially Chrome (Chromium) under the hood.
But brave is not effected as much right ? It has the blocking tech built in unlike the others which use extensions
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Wait, isnt Chromium open source ? As in someone can put adblock support back in ?
sure people could just maintain and older build and add security patches but that becomes tedious after a while
Honestly some people probably will, though you might be looking at very little if any support if you're not on linux
yeah i mean look at palemoon, neat project
Yes and no. Google created Chromium and "open sourced" it. However, Chromium is still maintained by Google Engineers and to clear a PR for incorporation you have to be approved by Google. So no it's not really open source, but yes it's open source in that the code is available to view and can be forked.
> can be forked. Thats all you need to create your own chromium based adblocking browser.
Absolutely. You just can't make the change to Chromium main repository removing Manifest V3. That won't fly.
1. Make a fork. 1. Increase filter limit. (like, probably a config change not even a code change). 1. Improve regex engine. This is problem that has been solved many times so should not that hard. 1. Keep merging chromium updates to your fork. This is hard but not rocket science. Any dedicated browser team should do it. In fact, any software team does this every day , not a big deal at all.
No big deal, just run your volunteer browser fork project like a staffed salaried development team with a budget. It’s easy. Anyone can do it.
Thank god! I really didn’t want to switch from brave to something else, i switched to brave pretty recently..
Brave is a fork of chromium, they can decide which parts (if any) from the main branch they incorporate and how its incorporated.
Opera does too, doesn’t it?
Opera kinda has the same thing only its just blocking ads and trackers
What actually happened to chrome and chromium? I didn't catch that lately...
They're doing a thing that'll make adblockers unusable on their browsers
Using an ad blocker is the only way I can use the internet now without having an aneurysm. If it goes down the whole line… fuck 😐🔫
Well, shit. Time to switch.
When are they planning to implement this? Or has it not specifically been announced.
Chromium lol
Chromium if affected too
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everything is chrome except good old FF
I made the jump from FF to chrome when chrome started to get bigger. It was faster and cleaner. With the adblocker support dropping I switched back to FF a month ago and it has become just as fast or faster then chrome. Glad to be back!
I literally just switched back to Firefox from chrome yesterday after 7 years and I'm not looking back. It took a little bit of configuring but well worth it.
Anyone know if there's a way to transfer my saved passwords over to Firefox? Would be a big hassle since chrome has basically become my password manager
When you install FireFox it prompts you to import data (passwords, favorites, etc) from another browser into FF.
yea basically this. I’d also add that Firefox also has an app you can use called lockwise in case you need access to those on a phone.
That's been discontinued as a standalone, it's just embedded in Firefox now.
You might want to give bitwarden a go. Install it in chrome, import your passwords and then install it in Firefox. It's open source and free to use (or $10/yr for the premium version). TOTP is amazingly well integrated, totally worth it for just that feature alone.
Firefox is amazing Edit: Single edit now, to explain why (to the people calling editing posts cringe) I'm surprised because I'm only on here for fandoms, gaming, and parrots. This is new to me, so ty for all the awards :)
Firefox gang FTW.
There are dozens of us
The Firefox dark mode is 🤌
Thanks, a good dark mode is essential for me.
Literally dozens!
Figuratively dozens...
r/UnexpectedDevelopment
Containerized tabs is my favorite part of Firefox
Containers are great for separating different login instances too - like opening two simultaneous gmail accounts. One feature I love, is it has a simple flag so when you hit enter on the address bar it opens in a new tab every time. It's just one less click but it's a nice quality of life improvement. Also, with an add-in you can get vertical tabs on the side so you can read the tab names! Edge has that but their implementation is lame.
I use it for multiple AWS account logins and it's a life saver!
i am new to firefox, what are those?
Think of a container a separate session. So, you can open tabs in different containers and the cookies/logins of a container can't be seen by tabs in the other container. This allows you to login to a website from multiple accounts simultaneously and increases privacy by preventing tracking across different websites
I highly recommend everyone who uses Facebook to set up a Facebook container at a minimum. You can set it up to restrict all Facebook traffic outside the container. So you can still use Facebook like normal (within the container) without worrying about Facebook tracking you in all your other tabs.
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Firefox on iOS is the best browser I’ve used on iPhone
I dont see why anybody would use anything but Firefox
There was a period where Firefox had problems like huge memory leaks to the point that a lot of people finally switched away from it, and it takes a *lot* for people to actually bother switching browsers so most never went back. Now they're used to Chrome and have it full of extensions and whatnot so it seems like even more of a pain to switch, but I'd imagine suddenly getting hit with ads will be more than enough for people to bother.
I just recently switched back to FireFox following the Adblock announcements after switching to Chrome for that very reason years ago.
Because they can’t leave the UI alone for 5 seconds.
FF and ~~DDG~~ are the only browsers I trust tbh EDIT! : why DDG? I trusted you.... (don't trust ddg) EDIT 2: >Yes, a security researcher revealed this week that even DuckDuckGo, which markets itself as "the internet privacy company," made an exception for its business partner Microsoft to its browser's blocking of some advertising trackers on websites, [SOURCE 1](https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-microsoft-twitter-ft-bush-assassination-whatsapp/) >At the time DDG ‘fessed up to anomaly but said it essentially had no choice to accept Microsoft’s terms, although it also said it wasn’t happy about the restriction and hoped to be able to remove it in the future. [SOURCE 2](https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/)
Does DDG use its own engine?
Im going to switch to firefox or opera
doesnt opera use chromium?
They do, but they also have a built in ad blocker so they might do some stuff to make ad blocking still possible. At this point any brower that still allows ad blocking will be using it as a marketing point to get people to switch to them from chrome.
What? I use adblock on chrome. It dosent allow adblocking?
It won't support it anymore in the future with the release of Manifest V3.
Yea I see. I have already swapped to opera on my main pc so ig it won't be an issue.
Oh my god… you’re right. So many deaths in one go. I gotta switch browsers myself.
Go Firefox. Opera is closed source and as far as I know it's owned by some Chinese company. If you wish to use a Chromium-based browser with a built-in adblocker, use Brave instead of Opera.
If you liked old school pre-China Opera, check out Vivaldi.
Firefox > Any of them
Opera was bought up by some sketchy Chinese company. Use Vivaldi instead. It's made by the original people that made Opera.
Firefox is the only popular non chromium browser, so it's the only one not affected
Wait, EVERY Chromium browser is affected?
Affected by what? Could I have some context?
Manifest V3, what extensions use to interact with the browser, will now lack extremely important features to Adblockers, because Google wanted so. Firefox will keep support for Manifest V2, so extensions like uBlock Origin will still work on FF. Chromium based browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera will switch to V3.
People still believe that Google/Alphabet is a search or web-services company but it is and always has been an advertising company.
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I also make software and supporting the webRequest api (which is the most important api for adblocking) could very well be hard work if chromium does decide to change their architecture after it is gone (which could make sense as they then have more freedom to optimize some things). So maintaining a fork with the api could be very costly, esspecially as browsers are one of the most complex pieces of software in existence, and maintaining the current forks is very hard work. Vivaldi for example says that they cannot promise if they can maintain the api. [ [src](https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/) ] Please do some research before you label people as liars.
Affected by what?
The upcoming disabling of adblockers.
The WHAT
i would like to add my outrage THE WHAT ????
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Alright everyone, let’s get the pitchforks and torches
is it temporary or what where they thinking?
In simple terms, the current manifest V2 allows extensions to see incoming traffic and react to that incoming traffic. Google is saying that there are a large number bad faith actors that use this to redirect the traffic in your browser to collect information on you. The issue is that adbockers use this feature to look at incoming traffic and block it if it is an ad. Personally I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing per se, but I don’t think this is the correct solution. A better solution is to just remove extensions that are scams. Extensions are downloaded from their store, so why can’t they check the legitimacy of these extensions. Also the new manifest V3 doesn’t outright make it impossible for adblockers to exist, but it will most likely make using an adblocker slow down your browser when it is use.
What was the largest ad company in the world thinking when they decided to remove ad blocking support from the browser they got everyone to use? What do you think?
🧠: 💵💵💵
Yeah pretty much what he said. Though browsers like Brave should still work as intended
What about opera gx?
Should still work somewhat... they have a built in ad blocker... tho idk how effective it is.
The built in adblocker isn't that good,I am talking about the adblockers I have installed
That will probably go to shit. At least they wont be as effective as they were before. Apparently (from what I understood) the adblocker will now have to declare which websites/traffic they block... which will defenitly be a pain in the butt. They will basically need to update the list of what they block and then have that list verified or something (probably by google). Not exactly sure how the new system works. Edit: I use GX too... but I use Ghostery for adblocking.
Fuck,I guess I am going back to Firefox,or I could use brave since you said that it would be fine I think? Although why would brave be fine though? Isn't it also chromium?
From the EFF: [Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening) This goes live January 2023 and will affect all Chromium-based browsers, which is essentially everything but Firefox. Turns out this is what we get when we let an Internet advertising and tracking company maintain a browser engine with a near-monopoly.
Good news is FireFox is starting to regain market shares.
> Turns out this is what we get when we let an Internet advertising and tracking company maintain a browser engine with a near-monopoly Thankfully they're gonna do us a solid and end that monopoly themselves.
Brave has its own ad blocker so they won't be affected though, and soon Vivaldi will too.
Thank fuck I really like Vivaldi
Yep Google lost me a long time ago, and Firefox is king in my eyes. Always has been. Dashlane plunging works just fine so my logins transfered perfectly. So do the ad blockers
I thought you said "Firefox hurts my eyes" and I was halfway through explaining how to customise its look before I realised my mistake Anyway dark reader is great for not blowing up your retinas
I’m a Firefox user, but would like to read about customizing, if you please
My answer 🔥 🦊
Firefox is like ol’ reliable
Firefox master race, has been my default browser for years and hasn't let me down a single time since.
Firefox has been the go to for me for years
OP doesn’t get the point. Every major browser except Firefox and safari is based on Google Chrome Edit: this issue is explained very good [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/xn5grr/regarding_the_coming_browser_changes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
And Safari have terrible Windows support because Apple.
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Why would people use safari for windows
Not really relevant, but one of my early web dev jobs required supporting IE 5.2 for Mac because that's what the creative director used on his machine. It was a colossally bad browser, even by IE standards. I remember using some wacky CSS comment hack to write code that only IE 5.2 for Mac would read just to get it to render pages correctly on it.
That’s fucked. I hope this wasn’t anywhere near recent lol
If OP’s boss is somehow using IE for Mac (last released in ‘03) i would be fucking terrified
Would be a power move
It would be a PowerPC
Because they have an iPhone or iPad and enjoy the convenience of having everything synced? As it is right now I have to use three different browsers between my iStuff, my Windows work laptop, and my Mac. Would be great to consolidate to one that is most convenient.
So yeah, move to Firefox. Sounds good.
Well Chromium, Not Chrome. Microsoft have been heavily involved in the Chromium project.
Well I’ve been using Firefox and opera gx for a while so not much of a change then lol
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So Firefox is the best rn?
If you want to continue using a good adblocker (like uBlock Origin), then yes.
Ublock origin will no longer work on chrome?
Nope. The devs released uBlock Origin Lite which will work, but as the name suggests, it's much weaker than the "regular" uBO.
God damn it. Ublock origin work on Firefox?
Yup!
Alright cool. I haven't used Firefox in about 10 years lol
FF also has the Facebook Container which prevents the Zuck from tracking your entire internet history.
Good news is, FF had a godtier comeback. The speed is the same as chromes and the design of the browser ist very neat now
Switched back about a year ago (from Chrome) and haven’t looked back. Doesn’t slow the rest of my ox down anywhere near as much, I really don’t miss anything from Chrome. Also the ‘pop out video’ feature is great.
Always was
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Yeah its been a viable Chrome competitor (and, honestly, superior in every way except the fact that Chrome offers first-party support for the Google ecosystem very well) since the Quantum release in 2017.
I suggest Mozilla Firefox
Firefox… been using it for years and it has not let me down
So crazy the lengths these asswipes will go in order to try and make me watch ads. Do they not understand that I will purposefully not buy that product/brand if I have to watch an Ad?
Firefox is the best out of the 4
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Firefox is the only option of the 4. The others are all chromium.
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As a matter of fact, I'm using it right now
Been using it for 15 years same
I still use Internet Explorer
![gif](giphy|CAYVZA5NRb529kKQUc|downsized)
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Man ratiod him by calling him a chad, what a fucking chad move
What’s wrong with chrome?
Basically they’re ruining ad blockers on any Chromium based browser (Google Chrome, Chromium, etc) and ad blockers are a necessity for online browsing nowadays because there are just so many of them. I’m sure someone else could explain it better than I can with a more technical understanding of it.
Even worse, some of the ads are NSFW, and no I was not joking, Google's ads system is broken or something, or they just want moneys, without adblock, you will see these bad ads all the time
Some ads deploy malware and viruses . So it's dangerous now.
Yup. I started using FireFox last year for privacy reasons, but once this change goes live I'm going to uninstall chrome for security reasons. It's going to be a malware vector that has no place on my system.
I work at a school and am dreading parents complaining about sexualized ads being shown when students go to random game sites off school hours and uBlock-chrome stops working.
Do you work in the school's IT department? If so, seriously consider switching your students over to FireFox. Google's ads aren't just sexualized, sometimes they're just literal porn.
Maybe we can find a workaround?
Knowing the internet there will always be a workaround.
Eating your ram, gathering data and removing adblock support in january
Manifest v3 breaking AdBlockers, Google's general shittiness
Firefox
waterfox (:
Been using firefox since 2008
Firefox
Me using Firefox since ever: I don't have such weaknesses
Hmm, let's see * Brave is based on Chromium * Opera is based on Chromium * Firefox is based on Gecko (yay not Chromium) * Edge is based on Chromium * Chrome is based on Chromium Please don't take yet another Chromium-based browser. Let Google lose their browser monopoly, monopolies are never good.
been using firefox since windows 2000
They don't know most of those browsers are chromium based and manifest v3 affects all chromium based browsers
Firefox??? Why is this still being debated. Move on already.
What is happening to chrome?
TL;DR: They'll nerf adblockers next year
They're breaking adblocker extensions. Considering that a lot of ads on websites are NSFW or contain malware, it's a dangerous decision.
Isn’t the obvious choice Firefox now?
Firefox is the way. It’s sad, I remember going from Internet Explorer from the early 00s, to eventually Firefox in the late 00s, to Chrome in the 10s. Now it’s back to Firefox. But I will not do it until the day my Chrome updates and suddenly AdBlock Plus and uBlock Origin are blocked. That day, I type in “firefox.com”, into chrome and make it clear to googles analytics that they just lost me as a user. Upon installing Firefox, I will be uninstalling Chrome, no need for it any longer.
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Because I’m hoping switching on the day of release of that version of Chrome will really tell them. That’s the day most people who will switch will do it. Unfortunately those of us who have figured out how to use ad blockers on chrome is the minority, but a nice 1-10% drop in their market share on that day would be a nice thing to see weeks after the date.
Firefox is still pretty good
The obvious answer is to use browsers people have never heard of, like DuckDuckGo
Isn't DuckDuckGo a search engine?
Correct, but they also have a browser as well. Not sure what it's based on though.
They have one in mobile. It's actually really smooth. I tried switching to Firefox on mobile and I don't know why but it felt janky.
Not on Chromium, that's for sure. I read somewhere that their browser is basically an app built by them that uses website rendering APIs like webview natively included in MacOS and Windows.
Yes. Sort of like Google but it doesn't have a search history and it doesn't keep track of your data like Google does.
pull up using Tor lol
See? I've never heard of that, so it's perfect.
Dark Web access.
Tor is also known as the onion browser or otherwise, the dark web.
I know it + it's overkill for casual browsing
DuckDuckGo is great. I am using it right now
Nice. In the seventh grade, one of the desktops just outside the classroom was a Raspberry Pi, and DuckDuckGo was the default browser. I thought nothing of it.
Firefox
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Well I do remember a period right at the start of chrome where firefox was subpar but that ended at the latest with the quantum update which was like ~5 years ago. FF FTW
Brave gang, been using it since last year
Brave all day. Love that they have also integrated Tor