Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox
Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox
Manifesting a future where Firefox is more successful?
The sad reality is, there was no significant change when they intentionally crippled the API to fight against ad blockers and there won’t be a significant change now.
I'm worried about the direction of Mozilla, though. We need another :'(
I won't be surprised at all. They bought an advertising network company and most of their user-tracking always was opt-out and “hidden” in
about:configand this won't change now.They also released this pamphlet against an ad-free internet, so instead of being less intrusive with their spam and user tracking, this will become more and more annoying and complex to circumvent.
I installed ZenBrowser and it's pretty good. It's pretty, it works
It's just reskinned Firefox though.
LibreWolf for desktop, Mull for Android.
Keep in mind both LibreWolf and Mull are very slow because LibreWolf disabled WebGL, enabling higher privacy features, and Mull disabled JIT, a massive performance hit.
This is for people who don't know then blaming Firefox being slow, LibreWolf and Mull are slower version of Firefox, just that.
Ladybird is slowly being worked on but I doubt we'll see people daily driving it for a few years yet.
I wouldn't worry too much about Mozilla when it comes to Firefox at least. As long as they keep up with the backend then forks can clean the crud off.
Misleading title. This is nothing new, just Manifest V2 being removed. Ad blockers like uBlock Origin Lite still work.
While at the same time Firefox implodes
You would hope so but some chromium forks still try maintain their own ad blockers. And I've seen people just jump between what ones still work, or those few who just give up on ad-blocking all together.
There are also projects like qutebrowser which allow external programs to be plugins. In case of qutebrowser it uses the Chromium open source platform as rendering engine, etc. but completely relies on external Python scripts for plugins (including ad blocking).
If Firefox goes down the Chrome route with their forced advertisement I can totally see something like this happening.