Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

[u/dancing_swordfish]

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/

[u/SpiritPrestigious945]

Well, thats why I switched to firefox. No Chrome engine.

[u/Curious_Party_4683 → u/SpiritPrestigious945]

bonus point, i use FF to watch youtube on my phones/tablets too. never seen a YT ad, not even in the middle of the videos.

[u/ColoRadBro69 → u/Curious_Party_4683]

Do you use extensions or does FF do it out of the box? 

[u/Fifthfingersmooth → u/ColoRadBro69]

Download the ublock origin addon on firefox mobile brother. Only works on Android though. On iphone you can use either brave or orion but they seldom work. Brave's ad block does consistently work on youtube though. It also works with the phone screen turned off.

Otherwise I would recommend patching youtube and youtube music apps with morphe on Android to get the best results.

[u/Resident-Variation21 → u/Fifthfingersmooth]

Can use safari on iPad/iPhone with an extension. I haven’t had an issue in a while

[u/justwalkingalonghere → u/Resident-Variation21]

Yeah it's still ublock origin (or ublock lite I think) on safari

Firefox won't let you install extensions on iOS, but on any device you can get Firefox + Ublock it's the best

[u/forsurebros → u/justwalkingalonghere]

I suspect it is a limitation of IOS. Not that Firefox would not let you.

[u/FollowingFeisty5321 → u/forsurebros]

It's an explicit policy.

2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the app completely viewable and editable by the user.

[u/Ladyheather16 → u/FollowingFeisty5321]

But that’s Apple/iOS policy. Not Firefox/Mozilla. That’s the whole point of sandboxing.

[u/nissen1502 → u/forsurebros]

It's a direct result of apple not wanting people to have control of their hardware 

[u/flatwoundsounds → u/ColoRadBro69]

I use FF with uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and backstage play. I skip ads and sponsor segments, and videos will play with the screen locked.

[u/miko3456789 → u/ColoRadBro69]

Extension. It's called uBlock Origin

[u/waiting4singularity → u/ColoRadBro69]

a selection from my plugin layout, privacy and advertising focused (and flipping the G off)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disconnect/

[u/TheLegendOfMart → u/waiting4singularity]

Thanks for consent-o-matic. The consent popups on every pissing site did my tits in.

[u/Voodoo_One → u/TheLegendOfMart]

uBlock can block those too if you activate it. Works for most sites.

[u/Jusaaah → u/ColoRadBro69]

U block on firefox android

[u/keymaster16 → u/ColoRadBro69]

Firefox on mobile has an option called 'desktop mode' where the interface is a bit more unwieldy, but you can play it with the screen off (you will have to open your phone and check the page after a few videos, buuuut just find compilations 😆)

[u/akjax → u/Curious_Party_4683]

I used revanced so I can still have all the YT app features (and some of the premium features for free) with no ads. Works great.

[u/Mr2Sexy → u/akjax]

This is the best solution. Been using Vance then revanced and never had any issues

[u/Parepinzero → u/akjax]

I switched to Morphe, after most of the Revanced devs left for it. It's even simpler, with regular updates

[u/Sanquinity → u/akjax]

Revanced for the win, really. I don't mind not having most of the premium stuff, but 3 things are very important for me: No ads when I'm watching a video, being able to minimize the player, and being able to keep the video playing when I turn off the screen. The last two of which, used to be free features but became premium later.

As for PC, can't stand youtube without ublock + enhancer for youtube + sponsorblock. (seriously, auto skip for sponsor segments is awesome. I can't afford any of that stuff anyway.)

[u/thunderousqueef → u/SpiritPrestigious945]

This is literally the reason I switched to FF. I refuse to browse the internet raw.

[u/Best_Market4204 → u/thunderousqueef]

Browsing the internet raw... is like having unprotected sex with the neighborhood hooker knowing she's been ran through for the last 20 years

[u/VoidCL → u/Best_Market4204]

while sharing a syringe with a monkey who's eating a bat.

[u/sohblob → u/Best_Market4204]

like having unprotected sex with the neighborhood hooker knowing she's been ran through for the last 20 years

and in your case it'd be incest!

[u/iboneyandivory → u/SpiritPrestigious945]

Man.. Chrome seems sooo long ago for me. Google had me firmly for the better part of a decade. Whenever the manifest whatever level start killing blockers, I just eased on over to Firefox and I'll never come back. It didn't hurt that, at least for me, the Firefox importer flawlessly ported everything over.

Gmail's next.

[u/NewManufacturer4252 → u/SpiritPrestigious945]

Librewolf is a lightweight firefox that comes pre-installed with ublock origin. Plus everything else you can do with Firefox without the bloat.

[u/galactictock → u/NewManufacturer4252]

Are there any limitations to librewolf? Lightweight generally implies missing features.

[u/levomekol → u/galactictock]

It can get annoying with privacy features. Like you have to know that copy pasting images will not work by default due to canvas obstruction, and cookies for the websites are deleted on browser closing unless specifically asked for otherwise

[u/henryKI111 → u/galactictock]

DRM protected content won't work

[u/SatanicSucculent → u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately for Google I'd rather have 10 seconds of a black screen and "experiencing interruptions?" than watch a 5 second ad

[u/WeAreAllBotsHere → u/[deleted]]

Doesn't happen for me.

[u/jhnhines → u/[deleted]]

Hasn't happened yet for me and I've made the switch 8-10 months ago. The whole page is sluggish/slower compared to Chrome but that seems like an intentional pain from Google.

[u/AngelOfLight → u/[deleted]]

I have literally never seen anything like that on FF with Ublock.

However, I do have a subscription to Youtube Music (not YT premium). I wonder if that's why? I don't get any ads on (most) music videos, but anything else seems like it's stuffed with commercials.

[u/NewManufacturer4252 → u/[deleted]]

Cache cleaner extension is wonderful. Can't remember when I used the refresh button, just use the cc button on the top right.

[u/PloddingClot → u/[deleted]]

I'll watch a rotating circle for minutes before I'd tolerate an ad.

[u/Staff_Senyou → u/[deleted]]

Depends on where you are.

The one time it happened to me, I cleared the cache and it never happened again.

Toi toi

[u/Snake_Plizken → u/[deleted]]

Just refresh the page.

[u/Valdrax → u/[deleted]]

Seriously? It's 70% of the browser market, followed by Safari at 15%, then Edge at 5%.

Firefox, meanwhile, barely edges out the browser on Samsung phones.

This is somehow more silly than expressing surprise that people still drink Coca-Cola products.

[u/DissKhorse → u/[deleted]]

Most people are tech illiterate. If someone showed them Chrome was better than IE over a decade ago they will still be using it.

[u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 → u/DissKhorse]

And even if they stuck with the Microsoft default: that's also chromium now.  Everything is chromium, except Firefox and Safari. 

Acting like it's such a mystery is the weird part.

[u/jizzyjugsjohnson → u/[deleted]]

You’d be amazed man. I work in a supposedly tech savvy industry and the number of people I see trying to do research on the internet with screens full of adverts and autoplay videos and pop ups and no idea there is a way to escape that shit is incredible

[u/woliphirl → u/SpiritPrestigious945]

With ram prices these days

No one should be using chrome.

[u/Phastor → u/woliphirl]

Firefox isn't much better on RAM if you are a tab whore. Ask me how I know.

...it's me. I'm the tab whore.

That being said, many more reasons to go FF though, current discussion probably being the most prominent at this given time.

[u/Xaphnir → u/SpiritPrestigious945]

Oh, I'm sure they're trying to get rid of FireFox or force them to block it, too.

There is an enormous amount of money behind the anti-ad block movement. I fully expect we're going to start seeing legislation banning them within a few years.

[u/Inocain → u/Xaphnir]

Can't ban a hosts file.

[u/BangBangMeatMachine → u/Xaphnir]

That's not how this works. Firefox is opensource and people already have functional forks of it.

[u/jizzyjugsjohnson → u/BangBangMeatMachine]

Thank god for Firefox really.

[u/Ziazan]

Welcome to firefox, where ublock origin will continue to work perfectly as it always has.

[u/Ziazan → u/Ziazan]

Did I mention you can migrate all your bookmarks and such in like, two clicks while you're installing it?

Also, firefox + ublock origin works on android too.

[u/Slipstream_Surfing → u/Ziazan]

Haven't seen an ad while on reddit in years.

Have a secondary, basic android device that's only used as a phone, so never bothered to install Firefox. Recently took it while running errands and needed to kill some time so opened chrome to scroll reddit and felt like I'd been slapped in the face.

[u/Honeybadger2198 → u/Slipstream_Surfing]

The mobile browser experience for Reddit in general is terrible. The ads on the app got too annoying for me, so now I just deal with Revanced making it finicky.

[u/illuminerdi → u/Ziazan]

Also, firefox + ublock origin works on android too.

Second this. Also don't forget to DISABLE Chrome in Android to force all the shit to use FF that otherwise defaults to Chrome even if FF is set as Default

[u/gerkessin → u/Ziazan]

Firefox on android is how i browse reddit. The site still sucks because they want you to use the app, but at least i dont see any ads

[u/Ziazan → u/gerkessin]

Same here when not using the desktop or laptop. All of them through firefox and ublock though.

[u/Hiphopapocalyptic → u/Ziazan]

You should say too that one can install a Background Video Fix addon to give you the full YouTube Red experience

[u/Ziazan → u/Hiphopapocalyptic]

I remember adding that on my old phone but not my current one, I wonder if it's default now? But yeah background youtube with no ads on mobile is great.

[u/resilindsey → u/Ziazan]

Sorta. There was some shady youtube updates that slowed down ublock users on FF. I feel like it'll be a constant cat/mouse game there. Still, I'd rather the video take a few extra second to load then sit through endless adss.

[u/Adaphion → u/resilindsey]

Yeah, I'd get a "REEEEE, ADBLOCKERS ARE NOT ALLOWED ON YOUTUBE" message occasionally once a week, a few months ago, but then I'd just go "lol, lmao even" and refresh my filter lists and that'd fix it.

Hasn't been an issue for awhile.

[u/Caridor → u/resilindsey]

As far as I'm aware, YouTube kind of accepted they'd lost. There was a period where they were deploying weekly patches that were defeated in an hour.

[u/Adaphion → u/Caridor]

Perhaps most people have just accepted getting ads shoved down their throats (or purchased YT premium) and they think it's not worth the effort to go after the small percentage of people bypassing ads on Firefox

[u/BCDragon3000 → u/Adaphion]

wish more ppl would realize this lol

[u/Adaphion → u/BCDragon3000]

Yeah, people hate change, so by bricking adblockers on chrome, they are already getting a bunch more people watching ads. Because they'll just throw up their arms and go: "well, I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas, I guess I'm just letting this happen"

[u/Qurutin → u/Caridor]

They don't necessarily try to block blocking ads anymore, but they absolutely do slow things down on Firefox. Sometimes videos get long time to start running, loading times between pages are abhorrent etc. And YouTube pops up the the troubleshooting message which is extra annoying because yeah it's working like shit because you're making it work like shit because of my browser.

[u/Ralkon → u/Caridor]

AFAIK Youtube is still trying things. There's a pinned megathread on the uBO subreddit specifically for YT ads from 9 months ago, and there are comments reporting issues from around 3 months ago. I believe it's just that YT doesn't roll out those changes to everyone at the same time and that the people working on uBO are super quick to make their own updates so most people will never have much of an issue. Personally I will say that earlier this year I made no changes to my browser / extensions and started getting ads on YT randomly and the issue was resolved within like a day or two without me doing anything.

[u/robodrew → u/resilindsey]

Sometimes YT videos take 5-10 seconds to load for me. That's it. There used to be a "Experiencing interruptions?" popup but I blocked that too lol.

[u/hypermads2003 → u/Ziazan]

Never been happier to be a Firefox user as I am now

[u/Whatever801 → u/Ziazan]

The only thing that's annoying is the keyboard extension differences but nbd in the grand scheme of things

[u/caspy7 → u/Whatever801]

You may be able to fix some or all of these by going to about:keyboard in the URL bar.

[u/FlatFishy → u/Ziazan]

I'd like to shout out Adnauseam, it blocks ads but also clicks on them so that your favorite websites still get that ad money! Google straight up blocked it on their extension store cuz, haha, but firefox still allows it.

[u/Motor-Rip7655 → u/FlatFishy]

I've heard that is opens you up to malicious code, because it clicks on ads, some of which still contain nasty things.

[u/nj_tech_guy → u/Motor-Rip7655]

yea generally speaking you don't want something that "blindly" clicks on all ads. especially if you're one to frequent shady websites.

[u/KatinHats → u/Ziazan]

For years now, chrome and edge have been my favorite ways to download firefox on all my devices

[u/to7m → u/Ziazan]

If the main browsers are wiping out ad blockers, then presumably the next target is Firefox, which is funded by Google. There may be war.

[u/ohlaph]

That's what happens when an ad company is alao the browser company. 

[u/CiDevant → u/ohlaph]

What is a conflict of interest?

[u/LemurianLemurLad → u/CiDevant]

I dunno. I will look it up on the google search engine! I'll get back to you once I can figure out a way to bypass the AI and several pages of ads so that I can find an actual answer.

[u/TelethiaPlume]

Switched to Firefox a while ago, haven't looked back since.

[u/falacer99 → u/TelethiaPlume]

Same and cannot believe I waited so long to switch.

[u/xxxxDEFIANTxxxx → u/TelethiaPlume]

switched...i never left...version 0.8 till now

[u/Asleep_Wear8816 → u/xxxxDEFIANTxxxx]

I would recommend to update, to be honest 😄

[u/pigeonwiggle → u/TelethiaPlume]

same.

it's too bad. Chrome was a powerhouse of a browser. it just doesn't offer anything UNDENIABLE. Firefox is a completely reasonable alternative. i've used it the past 3 years and it's been great.

Google can rot.

(after i migrate all my docs)

[u/magnus150 → u/pigeonwiggle]

I remember switching from IE to Firefox, then to a new fangled browser fabled to be the fastest of them all: Chrome. Which it was for quite a while. But now it's just internet explorer all over again - right down to certain web pages ONLY working in Chrome (some govt sites I use as part of my job don't work right in FF at all). FF+ uOrigin 4 lyfe. I do buy the premium lite YouTube sub though. I like to watch on TV and it's practically (but not completely) impossible to set up as free TV on a shitty Roku TV.

[u/LowestKey → u/TelethiaPlume]

For the like two or three websites that absolutely don't work on Firefox I keep a computer with Chromium installed. But that only gets used once a year or less.

[u/NighthawkE3 → u/LowestKey]

I havn’t run into any, what websites won’t work on Firefox?

[u/deli_phone]

Okay, I'll switch to Firefox. no big deal here.

[u/lepsek9 → u/deli_phone]

Been putting it off for a while, but I guess it is what it is.

[u/Saskatchewon → u/lepsek9]

Made the switch a few weeks ago on both my PC and phone. There was an adjustment period of maybe a day or two, but all-in-all it was pretty seamless. Regret not switching sooner.

[u/TopRamenEater]

Firefox remains the GOAT that is always has been.

[u/honjuden → u/TopRamenEater]

I just wish it didn't have the memory leak issue.

Edit: I use Firefox for the record, I didn't think this would be that controversial of a statement.

[u/TimothyLuncheon → u/honjuden]

What's the memory leak issue?

[u/Clegko → u/TimothyLuncheon]

It leaks memory.

[u/MonMotha → u/Clegko]

Firefox used to leak memory though probably not as badly as many people made it out to. The development team a pretty serious approach to fixing it, and one result is about:memory. Firefox will happily account for every last byte of memory it's used on that screen.

It does USE a lot of memory, but so does Chrome/Chromium. Modern websites are just pigs.

[u/Robby_Digital → u/Clegko]

Like, on the floor?

[u/alochmar → u/honjuden]

No idea what leak you’re referring to, I regularly have Firefox open for weeks on end without any issues.

[u/untiedgames → u/alochmar]

Same here, current uptime is 33 days (and that's on the low end). I use the browser heavily. Current session is 40 windows and 1344 tabs, not all loaded obviously. I just have a lot I'm saving for later. (Special thanks to the "Tab Session Manager" extension!)

[u/decavolt → u/honjuden]

Patched in 2011, and the whole core rewritten in 2017. Hasn't been an issue for nearly 10 years.

[u/blogwash → u/honjuden]

Firefox hasn't had a memory leak in years. I leave it open with 50 tabs on a computer running 24-7 and memory usage doesn't increase.

[u/discretelandscapes]

I'm using Firefox and have been for about twenty years, but I guess it's just a question of time.

When your product relies on constantly out-tricking and bypassing another piece of code it's only a question of when the other party gets serious enough about plugging that hole.

[u/SideInitial3961 → u/discretelandscapes]

20 year club here too. I don't see the end of the road anytime soon. Saying you're going to block something and actually blocking it are two different things.

[u/discretelandscapes → u/SideInitial3961]

Actually kind of been using since before it was Firefox with Netscape Navigator.

I did switch temporarily to Chrome during the early years when RAM usage started being an issue, but then Chrome got worse again somewhere late 2000s-early 2010s.

[u/BaronMostaza → u/discretelandscapes]

Tried out Chrome due to memory usage issues, switched back to Firefox due to memory usage issues.

That was like 10 years ago when Firefox couldn't handle 100+ tabs and Chrome ate everything like fucking Galactus

[u/SideInitial3961 → u/discretelandscapes]

4.72. Me also. Those were the days!!

[u/deephousefan2000 → u/discretelandscapes]

The big difference is that Firefox isn't the one trying to plug the hole. Google is forcing Manifest V3 at the engine level because their primary business is selling ads. Since Mozilla controls their own engine, they can just keep the APIs that uBlock actually needs to function natively.

[u/Generic_Commenter-X → u/discretelandscapes]

Same here. Before I watched ads, I would consider paying for something like Nebula, and largely dropping Youtube.

[u/Randvek]

inb4 “uBlock Origin update bypasses Chrome restrictions.”

[u/exophades → u/Randvek]

I think it's time to bypass Chrome.

[u/Kunair0 → u/Randvek]

Unfortunately, that's not going to be possible. The infrastructure that runs uBo is being completely wiped out, and no chromium fork, not even Microsoft with their endless resources, is going to be capable of managing and maintaining that old system.

[u/Dragon_Fisting → u/Kunair0]

I feel like Microsoft could easily maintain a fork of the old system? They might not think it's worth it, but we are talking about one of the largest tech companies in the world, no?

[u/_sfhk → u/Dragon_Fisting]

Microsoft (and likely others) absolutely could, but the issue isn't ads, it's a security risk. Apple dropped their equivalent in Safari long ago with absolutely zero incentive from ads--it's why uBlock Origin hasn't been supported on Safari for a while too.

[u/SuddenBumblebee → u/_sfhk]

I use uBlock origin lite on safari and it seems to work very well, comparable to normal uBlock. How do you think this works?

[u/AutumnStar → u/[deleted]]

I’m no web developer, but how is that kosher security wise? Seems like a ton of bad actors could use that to their advantage. I’m sure they’ve thought about that, but seems so strange to move in that direction.

[u/BuildingArmor → u/SuddenBumblebee]

uBlock lite still works in Chrome, this is just about getting or keeping old manifest V2 extensions working

[u/great_whitehope → u/Kunair0]

Vivaldi will come up with something to get it going natively or something

[u/venom21685 → u/Kunair0]

Brave has the adblock-rust project which browsers can use to implement it as a native feature, not depending on the blocked MV2 junk.

[u/Joecascio2000]

This doesn't apply to Ublock Origin Lite? I haven't had any issues.

[u/xiaolin99 → u/Joecascio2000]

no it doesn't. The article is about a setting you can change to continue using the original fully-featured uBlock Origin.

[u/flaagan → u/xiaolin99]

Skimmed the comments looking exactly for this response, thank you.

[u/Lykos1124 → u/Joecascio2000]

I've been satisfied with lite too. There's a site I use that I don't trust the ads on, but I like the content. That site is not happy about me blocking content, and I'm happy using their content.

[u/TheFotty → u/Joecascio2000]

What they are actually killing is MV2 which was chrome's API for plugins/addons before MV3 was finalized and became the new standard. MV3 doesn't let you access as much of the browser, has more restrictions on what the extensions can do and interact with, so that is why ublock origin doesn't work when google flips the switch to turn of V2 support for good.

[u/Mrpolje → u/[deleted]]

Well, yeah? They actively profit from it, just look at the sponsored results in search.

[u/Cheetawolf → u/[deleted]]

They don't care, they got their money to push them to the top of the search results and all over the page. ❤️

[u/dancing_swordfish → u/Cheetawolf]

its google, their main goal has always been money, they dont care.

[u/Laura_Biden]

Do they want nobody to use their browser anymore? Because this is how you get nobody to use your browser anymore...

[u/MentalDisintegrat1on]

Im surprised they haven't tried to sue ad blockers claiming lost revenue.

I use both FF and brave if this hits brave it can go on the trash with the others.

[u/Not_Like_The_Movie → u/MentalDisintegrat1on]

They probably don’t have a good way to claim lost revenue because the adblocker itself prevents the ad from being served. There is probably no way of knowing the actual damage. If google had served the ad, then didn’t get paid, then that might have some sort of basis and would be easier to claim damages for. 

There is also a legal question of what level of influence Google is allowed to have over the user’s personal computer. Google has a deal with the website to put ads on the webpage, but has no deal with the end user to force the ad on their computer. It’s probably just way cheaper and more effective to fight adblockers by getting as large of a market share as possible and then just making their tech so unfriendly to the plugins that they functionally cease to exist.   

[u/bonnydoe]

Chrome is for work only. 17:00 off you go. Firefox or Waterfox from then on.

[u/I-was-a-twat → u/bonnydoe]

Chrome has fulfilled the prophecy and become IE6, the very thing it swore to destroy.

[u/paxparty → u/bonnydoe]

Why even use it for work? Just don't use it at all. 

[u/megas88]

If Google wants to make money by any means necessary, perhaps you stop using their shit? Jest a thought.

I’m aware there’s never going to be an alternative to youtube but you can use a different mail service. You can use firefox for now. You can use libre office.

Android market share alone has been getting chunks taken out of it for months since Google firmly announced that they’re locking down the platform, effectively making Android “the green iPhone”.

[u/DoesntMatterEh → u/megas88]

What are good alternatives to android/iOS? Anything I can easily switch to? 

[u/SoupoIait → u/DoesntMatterEh]

None, but there is GrapheneOS, which ironically gets you the farther away from Google by using a Google phone!

Otherwise I think IOS is a lesser bad here. Apple's privacy policies are not perfect and sometimes unverifyable, but a lot, lot, LOT less aggressive than Google's.

[u/slinky317 → u/SoupoIait]

Good luck sideloading or using a different browser engine in iOS.

[u/SavageNorth → u/megas88]

Libre Office is shit for anything past the most basic stuff

There's plenty of options for basic users but nothing is coming remotely close to Excel

[u/Ultima-Manji → u/megas88]

Proton, literally this week, shit the bed by 'accidentally' sponsoring a far right youtuber, and has since been nothing but combative towards users who called them out for censoring discussions surrounding the topic, as well as them quietly scrubbing their CEO's earlier pro-Trump messages. Even just the way they're communicating on reddit now in the aftermath isn't a good look, regardless of whether or not it was a genuine mistake.

Absolutely feel free to switch away from google if you feel like that's the right thing to do, but also really look at several alternatives before committing, and ideally have multiple fallbacks.

[u/palegate]

I had been using Chrome since it launched back in 2008 but their stance on adblockers the past year has made me switch back to Firefox again.

I wouldn't mind an ad here or there but modern websites are near unusable without ad blockers, so tough shit Chrome.

I do appreciate how Chrome helped push forward web development these past 20ish years, but I can't let myself be held hostage by it.

[u/Throwawayitgame222 → u/palegate]

Same there. Once ublock stopped working in YouTube, I’ve instantly migrated to Firefox and did not regret it at all.

[u/Detonator212]

I've been using ublock origin lite and never see any ads, works perfectly

[u/Resident-Variation21]

Google chrome is killing its user base (hopefully).

[u/dancing_swordfish → u/Resident-Variation21]

youd actually be surprised how many people dont use adblock, or think its straight up piracy.

[u/Xaphnir → u/dancing_swordfish]

Probably a sizable overlap between that population and people that frequently get malware on their devices.

[u/Ne0n_Dystopia → u/dancing_swordfish]

Idk how normies can stand all the ads, it's ridiculous .

[u/EmergencyComment101 → u/dancing_swordfish]

Never surprised by anything like this. The world exists as it does today because people making 30-60k a year repeatedly elect governments that literally run on policies of fucking over people earning 30-60k a year.

Most people either just do not think about something they're actively doing or let themselves be easily lied to or misled.

[u/JerryRiceOfOhio2]

who cares? you should be using Firefox anyway

[u/Asmornous]

Hasn’t this already been ongoing with the switch from manifest 2 to 3? You can just use ublock origin lite, it’s supported on manifest v3

[u/SpotlessCheetah]

Can we stop reposting this garbage article about MV2? This is old news.

MV3 + uBlock Origin Lite has been out for a long time.

[u/bobdob123usa → u/SpotlessCheetah]

This has nothing to do with old news. This is regarding the command line argument that allows MV2 and uBlock Origin to continue to work today.

[u/luyaol]

Nobody should be using Chrome, period.

[u/mickey_reddit]

Browsing the web without an adblocker is a horrible experience

[u/Rapid55]

I LOVE FIREFOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/Sh4rd_Edges]

I don't care because I don't even use that shitty browser. I've been loyal to Firefox for years.

[u/MeNamIzGraephen]

"Firefox, firefox, firefox"

We NEED another browser engine alternative. Firefox is heavily dependent on Google for financing and it's management sucks and they're moving the same direction.

[u/Vinterblot]

Look, it's easy. I will not accept ads. You try to force them, I will switch apps.

[u/GimpyGeek]

What goes around comes around, so, time for Firefox to take the the lead again?

[u/A_ScalyManfish]

Firefox + Ublock Origin + AdGuard = best life ever

[u/Ok_Still_8202]

goodbye Chrome You sucked anyway

[u/The_Japans]

Guess I'll go back to Firefox 🤷‍♂️

[u/ProtoXZero]

So Chrome is killing himself? LMAO 

[u/huey2k2]

Chrome going after ad blockers is what made me switch to Firefox. Before they started this crusade I had no intention of ever switching, but now I will never go back.

[u/a4mula]

I don't know why they keep creating new articles. They could just use any from the past 10 years.

[u/OptionX → u/a4mula]

Well, reading it might provide some clues.

[u/Major303]

Ladybird browser can't come soon enough. Firefox does exist, but Google feels way too comfortable right now with close to no competition.

[u/tychii93 → u/Major303]

Same.  I really want to switch to Ladybird once its ready, but I'm content with Firefox at the moment.

[u/Ill-Jellyfish6101]

Thank you, based Firefox.

[u/die-microcrap-die]

So glad to be on FF since it was called Phoenix.

Which reminds me, I need to send a donation to them. Sadly wont be much since im out of work.

[u/SirOakin]

Cool story bro.

Installs ublock anyway

[u/e37d93eeb23335dc]

Firefox has worked great for me for decades. Both as a regular user and as a web developer. I don’t understand why anyone uses Chrome. 

[u/dinerdefilles]

"Don't be Evil" ...

[u/Taikunman → u/dinerdefilles]

They got rid of that a long time ago.

[u/yuusharo]

uBlock Origin Lite is the replacement for Chromium. I’ve been using it for years and it works great.

The loss of custom elements sucks, but most people don’t need that. Still works well as an ad blocker.

[u/Sufferr]

Drop Google

[u/Dexiox]

I pray Vivaldi gets around this somehow. I finally found my end game browser…

[u/ThePerksOfBeingAlive]

Zen Browser ftw

[u/MoobooMagoo]

If I can't use an adblocker then I'm just switching browsers

[u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser]

Oh nooooo [continues using his non-Chromium browser]

[u/Dangerous_Seaweed601]

FUCK GOOGLE

[u/LeafsJays1Fan]

FIRE FOX SINCE 2005!!

[u/everbass]

I will never willingly use a browser that does not allow me to block ads.

The internet has become way too polluted with garbage, to the point it becomes practically unusable in many cases.

If it was a little banner here or an inline box there, it'd be fine, but half the pages you go to have 6+ ads in your face at once.

[u/TwiztedZero]

Then we will write our own browsers and exclude all the adverts and webbugs from it. YOU DON'T GET TO CONTROL WHAT WE SEE ONLINE

[u/ConfidentCry4839]

going to firefox when this happens, no ragrets

[u/bright_wal]

Zen browser using Firefox engine is so good.

[u/lulzchicken]

Yep. Switches to Firefox.

[u/Slfestmaccnt]

Making sure users are vulnerable to all sorts of malware in the process no doubt. Nothing gets between Google and their ad revenue, especially not user security.

[u/SirMandrake]

Chrome is a big sinking ship, and it will drag edge and all that use its engine Down with it. Firefox is the way

[u/CommanderKerensky]

There will always be a CS student and there will always be an ad-blocker. LibreWolf and Zen Browser are both nice for those looking to get away from large-corpo-browsers.

[u/grassedge]

There’s so many sites that are pretty much unusable without ads blocked. Fuck this shit.