Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it

If you're still using Chrome it's a you problem.

Firefox + ublock origin + SponsorBlock for youtube is great. Works on mobile too!

The other day I got to pondering whether people who work for ad serving companies have ad blockers on their work computers.

You won't get me off adblock, as of recently i've come to find we get significantly more ads compared to friends and family.

My dad plays wordfeud, so i install and play a set with him...about 5 seconds in i get frustrated at the 4th ad and my dad goes: "which ads".

My friends keep telling me i'm taking the youtube ads far too serious as they are only 10 seconds and show it to me too.

My youtube ads are 1 minute unskippable blocks before and after 1m 51s videos. I'll get a 1min ad block halfway into a 5 minute video even though youtube themselves claim they don't do that.

How the fuck am i so fucked when it comes to ads, my dads phone is almost completely ad free. Heck the google top suggestions that are basically paid for ads don't even show up on his phone.

He can play those free apps (advertisement feeding software) without getting any ads and he's adamant his phone isn't modified.

Opera browser? The one that everyone was making a stink about a few years ago? The one owned directly by a Chinese based company, and was supposedly sending telemetry to China?

Why the hell would anyone still be using Opera???

It seems that many people here are not aware of how much Mozilla depends on Google, so switching to them is a small consolation. Maybe it's time to support the development of new engines like Servo and Ladybird more. Servo even recently released an Android version (currently not very usable, but I downloaded it just to show support).

A reminder that Opera is owned by a Chinese public company. I wouldn't trust the browser for privacy reasons.

Opera is not a trustworthy browser and there has been no point in it existing since they stopped using presto.

I truly hope this leads to the collapse of Chrome's sheer market dominance. Fuck Google.

Just use Firefox and its variants for more privacy. Done. Chromium is a dead road. Even with ungoogled chromium , brave , etc you have to trust the maintainers and their compiled version.

A better title: Opera explains shit on how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support. Will talk to developers so see if anyone has a good ideas.

They explain nothing. They're in the same boat as all others: open source will let them keep MV2 longer than mainstream chrome, but that future is uncertain as the main project codebase starts to evolve around MV3 and backward compatibility to hack MV2 back in gets lost over time. Nobody here can make promises, and sites that make that make those judgments are naive.

serious question: how does opera (the company) make money?

Probably because they market to gamers, who tend to hate ads even more than the common pleb.