- Google is transitioning Chrome’s extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the V3.
- This means users won’t be able to use uBlock Origin to block ads on Google Chrome.
- However, there’s a new iteration of the app — uBlock Origin Lite, which is Manifest V3 compliant but doesn’t boast the original version’s comprehensive ad-blocking features.
I’d just like to reassure everybody that you can quit using Google Chrome. I switched to Firefox a year ago. You can switch to something else too. Give it a try.
Wait, I don’t need to nudge anybody. After all the ads start invading their browsing experience I doubt anybody will need much prodding.
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Why not both?
You can even keep all your bookmarks
I’ve always used Firefox on every other device I own, but now I need to do something about my Chromebook.
Nobody that cares about seeing ads is still on chrome. I bet they don’t lose more than 8-10% market share in a year even that is probably super high
I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that even the United States FBI recommended using ad blocking extensions to protect yourself online.
I always wondered about this and how all the ad blocking apps have complete access to every webpage you visit.
Also to add to this, its made a little weirder considering ad blocking makes you more susceptible to fingerprinting.
Yea, that is what gets me too, when I look at the blockers to use; Ad blockers have access to all keystrokes, forms and pages. They have access to my banking and other codes when I use them .
While I am sure the more popular blockers do not abuse this, and the code most likely checked line by line. It’s still possible for a handful of mistakes to allow supply chain attacks or a dozen other things to happen.
It worries me, so I don’t use them as extension and use security elsewhere
Firefox is the bomb.
It is… revolutionary.
Use Firefox. If something you use ABSOLUTELY needs Chromium yell at whoever makes the thing. If that still doesn’t work use Brave. But then go back to Firefox for everything else.
What’s the general consensus on Arch? I really like the UX, although I stuck to Firefox on mobile.
Screw that. Use Firefox, but if you need Chrome, use brave, use Vivaldi, use Opera for all it mattwrs. Asanything that still works is fine.
This brave paranoia is just insane. You don’t want crypto, don’t use it. You don’t trust brave use Vivaldi, but spreading fake fear is BS.
You don’t want crypto, don’t use it.
I use Brave as my Chrome based browser when not using Floorp but there were other issues with Brave in the past like injecting their affiliate links unbeknownst to users so they could make money off them. They have reverted that decision but that they thought it was acceptable in the first place leaves some to question, rightly, what other shenanigans they might pull. They’ve also had issues with paying out Creators BAT tokens.
Yep company’s not totally trustworthy neither is Google neither is Microsoft. By the way, Firefox still sends all of your websites to Google to get safe traffic prompts.
Brave also got and slapped by the SEC for the handling of their crypto sales.
The link issue you’re speaking of was 4 years ago. The CEO issued a formal apology.
They’re a funded company they are trying to make money to pay the developers to stay solvent.
On the upside they’re using that money to fight Google’s ad blocking and to keep manifest V3 optional.
The way they block the ads happens outside of manifest so even if they take the manifest code they still won’t have ads. Of the chromium ancestry browsers they are the most likely to continue running long-term. They’re also the fastest solution for YouTube blocking when YouTube makes changes.
I main Firefox but still use brave over edge or opera.
Right now, we need all the boats we have. Not everything works in Firefox you need to have a backup,
FYI TELL YOUR LOVED ONES ABOUT THIS
If you are on here you’re probably like me “the it guy of the family”
Mom and dad aren’t going to switch themselves, remove chrome for them as the default install Firefox and tell them to use that unless something absolutely refuses to work. Pick your battles.
If you are the IT guy just buy a raspberry pi or a cheap mini pc and install pi-hole at your parents place that you can access remotely. That way their entire network is blocked from ads and you can troubleshoot from anywhere.
And then it gets blamed every time something doesn’t work right with the internet
Honestly that’s way too much work. Keep it simple imo.
It is simple. Probably simpler than educating a stubborn boomer to use a different browser.
I can’t even get my mom to stop believing that her bank would text her asking for her account info.
Good news for Mom, Firefox doesn’t really change functionality wise compared to Chrome.
Sometimes people just refuse common sense and have to be left to ruin their own lives, no matter how much you love them.
Cause theres no point drowning yourself, trying to keep idiots that refuse to swim above water.
If you’re still using chrome at this point you’re just asking for this shit
Hopefully the DoJ case against Google includes getting bent over a barrel for abusing their position as a market maker to force their revenue model.
What a disaster… USE FIREFOX
Next week: Over 30 million users pull the plug on Chrome, leaving Google execs to make the surprised Pikachu face and wonder aloud why millennials hate web browsers.
The sort of person who would sit through a Youtube ad or is still on Reddit won’t change. They’ll just get angry or perhaps not even notice.
Even if only a fraction of those kinds of users switch, that’s still millions of users chrome loses, and no longer get to make a buck off of.
I agree that every one counts but it won’t break Google’s profit margin.
Doesn’t have to. I’m quite content with google’s profits getting hurt even if it is a little bit.
I have said this in other threads about this issue in response to all the “use Firefox” comments.
Thousands upon thousands of school children are currently using Chromebooks they get from their schools. Now they will be forced to look at ads.
Now they will be forced to look at ads.
I’m pretty sure they would’ve been seeing ads anyways. I doubt that school IT administrators had uBlock Origins as an extension that was being installed and I really doubt they didn’t have the chromebooks locked down so students could install whatever extensions they wanted.
Good, smart IT would have installed ublock and locked that shit down. Saves bandwidth and protects the kids.
But you’re probably right, most IT departments are useless.
Yeah, I’m not saying it’s not a good practice, but I just don’t see them doing it.
I was able to install it on my daughter’s Chromebook.
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if that wasn’t a goal of the chromebook project
Gotta get 'em hooked while they’re young…
Joe Camel
I was done with school before giving out computers to students was the norm, but my brother’s school district seems to be issuing Surface Laptops instead of Chromebooks. With Firefox preinstalled.
It must be a wealthier school district because Chromebooks are far cheaper, even in bulk, than Surface notebooks.
https://discountcomputerdepot.com/shop?product_listings=Chromebooks+For+Students
Wow those things can really get down in price. I think the district is issuing the original Surface Laptop Go, which went for about $500 when they were new and bought individually. No idea what kind of discount they could get for buying in bulk though, educational institution pricing is hidden behind having to “contact sales”.
given the typical IT inertia, that will be a problem when they update chrome in 5 years.
If you want to avoid ads it might be a good idea to not use products from a company which primary goal is to make money on ads…
But hey, what do I know…
“always do evil” ~Google
I used Firefox when it first came out. Google and Mozzila got into a hot race to make the best browser and they both did well. Somehow I ended up using Chrome a lot more even though I thought that by the time the race ended they were pretty even. Both were very fast and had great plugin libraries. Chrome looked nicer out of the box, but Firefox is highly customizable. Since the end of that race, Chrome has gotten worse and Firefox is about the same. I’ve switched back fully to Firefox, and the only thing I miss is the “Piss off publisher frames” plugin, that I haven’t found a replacement for. It’s a nice browser.
Just finished migrating to Firefox this year to prep for this. See Ya later Chrome! Give my regards to Netscape.
Firefox is basically netscape navigator https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/browser-history/
Just imported all my stuff into firefox. Bye felicia.
