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Reminder to switch browsers if you haven't already!


  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Firefox is a good option.

But I will raise people one more. Waterfox. Been using it for over a year now and enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Firefox's marketshare is small enough relative to Chrome's that some websites might just block it at this point, if Chrome users mean ad revenue and Firefox users don't.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

Firefox has 2.88% marketshare.

Chrome has 65.34% marketshare.

It's gonna be interesting to see what happens...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Based and ~~incognito~~ private mode pilled

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

It doesn't necessary cost a meaningful amount to a site to allow Firefox users to view it; it does however cost to make it compatible with non-chromium browsers. For most viewing that's a non issue (I mean, most crms are going to work) but specific sites might stop working (YouTube already got caught throttling firefox, and tbf, streaming would cost more than reading an article or something).

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Firefox blocks statcounter tracking by default. It's an inherently flawed metric, though Firefox is definitely in the minority still vs Chrome

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

The numbers may be indicative of the general trend, but every single privacy oriented browser and so forth is spoofing the user agent, pretending to be the most widespread and popular os and browser.

Which is why privacy checks on my Linux+librewolf PC return win10 with chrome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My worry is what the EU changes might mean for the mobile web and beyond. With iOS's market share and only the same rendering engine Apple used in Safari being available, sites/apps had to support more than just Chrome. If forcing iOS users to Chrome is an option (either through pointing them to the browser or an app built with that rendering engine), then there's even less of an incentive to test with anything else. It's great that users get more choice but if providers use it as an opportunity to reduce support for other browsers then it might not be a great benefit after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Firefox and WebKit for all!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I did have some issues on firefox om some sites.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But I will raise people one more. Waterfox

Never heard of it, I prefer LibreWolf
https://librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf

but I'm gonna list some other popular forks

TOR Browser (anti-censorship enhanced fork, bundled with TOR network)
https://www.torproject.org/

GNUzilla IceCat (GNU version)
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

Pale Moon (able to use old XUL based extensions)
https://www.palemoon.org/

Mullvad Browser (a security hardened fork, IIRC based on TOR, made by Mullvad VPN company)
https://mullvad.net/en/browser

ANDROID (Fennec/Fenix)

Fennec F-Droid (Fennec version available on F-Droid, clean of propietary blobs)
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

Mull (hardened fork of Fenix)
https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

IceRaven (yet another hardened fork of Fenix, able to install an extended list of extensions)
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser