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

I hope they end up killing Chrome.
- 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.
  
  Based on every browser statistic page I can find, about 2/3 of mobile traffic is through Google Chrome. There's no ad blocker on that.
  And mobile traffic is significant nowadays - it comprises around half of all traffic anywhere, despite requiring the viewer to be hunched over a phone or tablet.
- 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 brace 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.
- In my personal experience, and with great regret, I must say that Brave does a better job with its built-in ad blocking than Vivaldi has. Even after I did my damnedest to tweak the ad blocker settings (adding more lists from more sources, removing the "allow some ads" list, etc).
  
  Brave itself is filled with ads. Crypto wallets, BAT, VPNs. I just want a browser.
  
  Well that is because Brave has been doing it longer, and Vivaldi only has about 30 devs across all the platforms, which is a fraction of Brave, although Brave has its issues as well, just not in the adblock department. I have found that if you use the uBlock block lists it is most of the way there, but it is not ready yet and I think that Vivaldi will have to consider picking up some dedicated devs. Also it is a 'Vivaldi Thing' to launch things piece mail and get those pieces working fully before adding on the rest of it. Then over time it gets good. But Vivaldi has come a LONG way when it comes to aggressive adblock detection.
  That being said right now YouTube is detecting it and it is dumping the most manpower and money into this. When it does work you can pretty much use it across the web and the few cases that it doesn't work usually OK just to pause it for a while and you won't get too many ads.
  However if Mv3 comes out and they haven't gotten their act together I am going to Firefox or Brave, as much as I don't like how they do business. Then there will be the Google Search thing running through the courts and we will see how Fx and Br come out and change their model.

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?

- Other Chromium browser vendors have claimed that they will continue to support MV2 based content blockers, later revealing that they were unwilling to support the code once Google removed it.
  Xitter doesn't load for me but this is quoting Brave so I'm not so sure about that
  (edit: Though I think Brave has a builtin adblocker so you may not even need it. However, just don't use Chromium anything at all)
  
  Xitter doesn't load for me
  xcancel.com still works... for now.
  Though I think Brave has a builtin adblocker
  Further down the article it says "Brave has a number of feature gaps compared to uBlock Origin, resulting in worse effectiveness as well." It's hard to beat uBO.
  
  I believe Brave’s ad blocker is based on uBlock.
- I think people pushing the Brave browser are partially incentivized to do so by the cryptocurrency.
  
  yeah the only point it has thats actually interesting is crypto, though for anyone who doesnt care about it will probably not like the browser (seriously what does it have that others dont?)
  
  I use brave for years and I’m not into crypto at all. That’s the most convenient browser I found for iOS with adblocking.
- Wasn't Brave doing some shady stuff a while back?
  https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caught-adding-its-own-referral-codes-to-some-cryptcurrency-trading-sites/
- Seconded.