According to recent user reports, uBlock Origin is quickly disappearing from the Chrome Web Store. The official page for the ad-blocking extension now states that it is unavailable because it doesn’t comply with Chrome’s “best practices” for add-ons. However, we can confirm that the page is still accessible from our EU Windows client.
So THIS is why all the Firefox hit pieces have been surfacing recently….
Suddenly the picture becomes clearer lol.
I’m not surprised, they have been threatening this for awhile, put the timing of the hit pieces, and then this…… answers a lot of questions
To be fair, Mozilla is making some choices regarding Firefox that are pretty controversial; most of us don’t like many of the decisions being made and have legitimate frustrations.
Sure, and that’s meaningful, but the problem is that many articles are getting major details and entire concepts wrong and publishing statements that are so inaccurate that it feels like bullshit.
Like the advertising counter is nowhere near how it’s been represented over and over in various unknown blogs.
Very much has the feel of a FUD campaign
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
Problem solved, except for the sites that still refuse to work properly with established web standards.
Man… I switched a while back. Shits wild how many sites don’t work correctly
Edit: my wife sends me tiktok videos which doesn’t work and then a random smattering of redirects.
Which ones? I’ve used Firefox and Vivaldi (which is Chromium-based) interchangeably for the last couple of years, and I can’t remember noticing any difference in their ability to handle sites. The main difference I’ve noticed is that Firefox renders fonts more nicely in Linux.
Some websites will tell you FF is not a supported webbrowser, this is BS more often than not. You can circumvent this by changing your User-Agent: User-Agent Switcher - addons.mozilla.org
I have not really found any…
But also, if you find sites that won’t work in Firefox, keep using them with Firefox and get others to do the same, then start complaining to the company running the site.
I edited my initial comment.
But it’s tiktok that my wife sends me and redirects. Which in absolutely not going to complain to tiktok because fuck that noise. IDC enough about that mess.
The redirects are annoying… But I just work around that in most cases
yes, i use mostly ff but still i keep chrome. Maybe ill install brave or vivaldii for the chrome engine purpose only
Problem solved, except for the sites that still refuse to work properly with established web standards.
for most of these, using an extension to pretend you are using chrome fixes the “problem”
People who don’t switch away from chrome deserve the ads.
No they don’t. When chrome first came out, every tech enthusiast and tech journalist praised it and encouraged every tech person to use it and to get their families to use it. Now millions of families still use Chrome and they don’t deserve to suffer.
Let’s help all our loved ones move to a better browser and a better internet experience.
Soon, users will have to choose between accepting Chrome’s inferior ad-blocking technology or switching to a different browser.
Doesn’t seem like a terribly difficult choice. Firefox it is.
(x-posted comment) There’s a MV3 alternate (same dev!) “uBlock Origin Lite” which this article completely misses out on mentioning: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
There are certain websites and tools which need chrome/chromium making it a necessary evil; for example there’s a new trend in firmware flashing of devices like ESP32 boards and HAM/GMRS radios which are web based and use Chrome tech. This new MV3 fork isn’t as good as the original but it’s better than nothing and does stop some ad trash.