I hope they end up killing Chrome.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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I think you're being optimistic about the number of people who both use adblockers and who care enough to switch browsers.
Yeah I fear society will get to the point in corporate autocracy, or corporate-feudalism where Google sues uBlock Origin out of existence (for lost revenue).
...and that'll be a dark day, and it will be hard not to blame the people who just put up with ads and a loss of privacy. Who can just stomach Surveillance Capitalism's incredibly flawed and one sided nature.
Those people are laying bricks for the foundation of a society I don't agree with, and don't want to participate in.
What? They’re not going to kill their own browser that they virtually exclusively control. Why would they kill one of their biggest cash cows? Google is an ad company, and they want control of the client software that we use which they pump ads to and exfiltrate our identities from.
Whoosh
I think they were talking about Chrome becoming obsolete. Unlikely but not impossible
I moved back to Firefox a few years ago on desktop and mobile. It's perfectly fine and seems less laggy that Chrome.
b-b-b-but brave will still pay me brave bux if i watch their ads right???
Yeah we’ve known this was coming ever since Manifest V3 was a done deal. We’ve had years of foreshadowing and months of warning to get off Chromium.
I've scene posts about Firefox enterprise from a business perspective. I wonder if we will see Firefox suddenly show up more in the business world. Ublock origin can save you from phishing links and malwarertizing
My company allow the usage of Firefox, Chrome and Edge and these browsers are mandatory installed on our corporate computers. But, our users just pick the Chrome and Edge.
You got to force it then
Be the shitty admin you want to see
Vivaldi is including its own adblock outside of the manifest system that uses many of the same blocklists that uBlock does (although at this point you have to add them manually) and hopes to get near the same functionality by the time it is pulled and Mv3 is implemented. They originally had plans to offer a Mv2 compliant area but after seeing how Mv3 was going to be implemented, they changed there plans to many users dismay.
I don't think many people use Vivaldi. Also it is mostly proprietary so that's a hard pass for me.
Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
Only the UI part is not open source.
What's the point of keeping part of the UI closed source?
Firefox exists and that's enough
Yeah, agreed
Total ignorant question: how hard would it be to fork (and mostly maintain) chromium keeping manifest V2 support?