Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome

So, in short:

Google is not killing ad blockers, but merely chopping off both legs and arms in the name of security.
ublock Origin is implementing a lite version for chromium browsers, supposedly being pretty decent given the circumstances.
Old Manifest V2 extensions will be disabled in June 2024 and Manifest V2 will be removed in June 2025.
Firefox is Firefox.
Privacy and security focused chromium based browsers will have to implement proper native ad blocking.

I am now using Firefox…

I mean I was using Firefox before this, but I also am now as well you know.

I used to use Firefox.

I still do, but I used to too.

Cool story bro. Completely irrelevant comment for this post but cool story anyway.

People are fighting ads and switching browsers.

Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.

I went from Netscape to Mozzila and from Mozilla to Firefox and, guess what… my browser never fucked me up in the name of maximizing corporate profits.

Google was already a wholly untrustworth Ad Company With A Tech Arm back when they invented Chrome, and shit like this was already back then a question of WHEN, not IF.

My recommendation is librefox and if you really want a chrome based alternative I’d suggest Thorium (although I don’t know what thorium will do when this is implemented I’m hoping they don’t follow it.)

For anyone interested, as of November 2023:

Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox’s engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox. Edit: and Fennec

Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple’s engine), and Blink (Google’s engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

I’d no idea there’s a browser called Conkeror. That’s prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE’s Konqueror browser.

Fennec is also using Gecko.

I use firefox, but Id never head of these alternatives.

Anyone who does have reviews? Pros, cons, reasons to use them beside variety?

I thought it was pronounced Kay Melly-on, so I never tried it because of the silly name.

Pihole will be unaffected.

Every other Google Chromium fork will need to maintain an increasingly complex set of changes to the Google repository

Yet infinitely easier than building a new browser from the bottom up

Here’s what happening to me: I went to Firefox.

Well, you say that, but this is what happened to me: I went to Firefox.

I, too, happened to me: Firefox.

I was using Firefox back when it was cool. And now it’ll be cool again.

Thanks to Lemmy, I’m browsing on Firefox on Linux Arch…

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who went on a bit of an open-source mania because of all the Linux and FOSS nerds on here.

It’s a great lifestyle, been a Linux main for about 15+ years, or around half my life so far. Highly recommend it to anyone who thinks it’s fun to use good software.

And before you did what?

Did you install Arch on your mac?

Hm, should I try switching my old Surface Pro 3 from PopOS to Arch?

Try Hanna Montana first.

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