You Should Know @lemmy.world yoasif @fedia.io 2 wk. ago

YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

www.quippd.com Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

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Who is the Lemmy user not aware of this? Show yourself!
Google is not killing uBlock Origin. It's changing how Chrome works. uBlock Origin will continue to work in my Firefox and other browsers.
LMAO welcome to Firefox, the objectively better Browser. Might also use a custom search engine or DDG while at it.
Firefox and its other forks are the best option right now
Duh, Firefox. This is not a problem.
Make no mistake, what Google is doing is absolutely dangerous. Malvertisements are definitely a thing. Back in 2010, I got a virus from an ad on a meme site that just went through and trashed my hard drive.

It's unfortunate that there are use cases out there where Chrome is absolutely required. Firefox can't display large directories, for instance. It'll lock up while chromium browsers work fine.
Now introducing Enshittium Browser ad diarrhea flows freely
I know that ploum blog post gets cited way too often on Lemmy, but this is a situation where I think Google has either intentionally or inadvertently executed a variation of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" playbook that Microsoft created.

They embraced open source, extended it until they've practically cornered the market on browser engine, and now they are using that position to extinguish our ability to control our browsing experience.

I know they are facing a possibly "break up" with the latest ruling against them.

It would be interesting to see if they force divestiture of chrome from the ad business. The incentives are perverse when you do both with such dominance and its a massive conflict of interest.
Highly recommend setting up a PiHole. It may not be quite as comprehensive as uBlock, but it cuts the ads way down, and it's not something that browsers can easily bypass. You do have to make sure to shut of DNS over HTTPS, or setup a separate solution for that to tunnel into PiHole.
I'm laughing at myself right now. I keep wishing people would switch to more progressive politics when people cannot even switch to a free piece of software with zero drawbacks even when their software starts blocking other software they use.
Fuck Google.
Vivaldi (and Brave I think) are safe until July 2025.
I switched to Firefox about a month ago for personal use. It's nearly impossible for me to quit using Chrome, though, due to work.

I don't hate Firefox, but it does absolutely do some stupid shit that I don't like.
that's why I haven't downloaded OperaGX to run twitch in the background
Happy pfSense + pfBlockerNG user here. It even blocks ads on some of my streaming services.
Anyone know how/if this affects Opera GX? I've been curious about it for a while but with MV3 it makes me curious if they will do anything at all. Or honestly if Opera GX even could block ad's and such, I never checked
Turning off auto updates on chrome was convoluted. I assume everything will break when they force this update even with auto updates off.
Is safari work ?
Or use UBO-Lite? MV3 has some limitations but I'm tired of people acting like it ruins ad blocking when it doesn't.

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