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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 1 year ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 117 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, in short:

  • Google is not killing ad blockers, but merely chopping off both legs and arms in the name of security.
  • ublock Origin is implementing a lite version for chromium browsers, supposedly being pretty decent given the circumstances.
  • Old Manifest V2 extensions will be disabled in June 2024 and Manifest V2 will be removed in June 2025.
  • Firefox is Firefox.
  • Privacy and security focused chromium based browsers will have to implement proper native ad blocking.
[–] Kumabear@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am now using Firefox…

I mean I was using Firefox before this, but I also am now as well you know.

[–] lando55@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to use Firefox.

I still do, but I used to too.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

RIP Mitch

[–] miridius@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Cool story bro. Completely irrelevant comment for this post but cool story anyway.

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People are fighting ads and switching browsers.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

For anyone interested, as of November 2023:

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

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).

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I'd no idea there's a browser called Conkeror. That's prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE's Konqueror browser.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fennec is also using Gecko.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use firefox, but Id never head of these alternatives.

Anyone who does have reviews? Pros, cons, reasons to use them beside variety?

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pale Moon still supports the even older extension model. I used it briefly until my extensions got updated to the newer format. I still kinda miss the old theme engine.

[–] Blorper59@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I thought it was pronounced Kay Melly-on, so I never tried it because of the silly name.

Pihole will be unaffected.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's what happening to me: I went to Firefox.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Well, you say that, but this is what happened to me: I went to Firefox.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks to Lemmy, I’m browsing on Firefox on Linux Arch…

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who went on a bit of an open-source mania because of all the Linux and FOSS nerds on here.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It's a great lifestyle, been a Linux main for about 15+ years, or around half my life so far. Highly recommend it to anyone who thinks it's fun to use good software.

[–] badmemes@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And before you did what?

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chrome on Mac

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Did you install Arch on your mac?

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, should I try switching my old Surface Pro 3 from PopOS to Arch?

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Try Hanna Montana first.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Google's ads can lick my nads.

[–] holdthecheese@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting that article comes to the conclusion that uBlockOrigin Lite is basically as effective as the original and works on the new Manifest v3.

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm glad you read the article, since it seems like nobody else in the comment section has!

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

When I went to read the comments of this post, and for some reason it took 10 sec for them to show up in my client, I thought of Google...

[–] sulsaz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I am forever grateful for my father having Firefox installed on the xp hand-me-down that became my first computer