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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] Voroxpete 139 points 9 months ago (2 children)

People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.

Adblocking still works fine on Firefox. Just update your UBO filters.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I literally have un-installed chrome. I had to use it on an office machine today and it felt weird.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

proud of you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The default browser at my work is Firefox lol, only our testing team and a few others use Chrome. It's a pretty welcome change 👍

I find it a little funny when we get Chrome-specific bug reports though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Aside from Firefox, are there any decent non-Chromium-based browsers left?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Nope

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks.

For anyone else interested, as of November 2023:

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

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There are many. They're just not as popular.