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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reminder to switch browsers if you haven't already!

Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well I will sound like an old bore but throughout the nearly 20 years Firefox is out I never looked at anything else. Seen the rise and fall of Internet Explorer seeing the rise and fall of chrome.

Even Firefox in its dreadfully slow era (2010-2016) it did not made me change. And let me be clear Firefox is far from perfect. But for my use cases (privacy and security balance over certain conveniences) I would not change for any commercially backed Browser.

Moral of the story. It's better to donate to Mozilla and enjoy the freedom of your browser than giving yourself in on the erratic behavior of the big tech companies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

dont donate to moz lmfao if you look at the source code they collect absolutely everything, just use librewolf + betterfox.js/arkenfox.js

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firefox doesn't "collect absolutely everything".
DO donate to Mozilla as without them the Firefox, Tor, Mullvad, Floorp, Mull, Waterfox AND Librewolf browsers wouldn't exist.
Librewolf disables SafeBrowsing, which is a security must-have for anyone installing a browser for friends/family - and in many cases even for yourself.
Even the Librewolf developers say "Safe Browsing is still a good security tool and Mozilla's implementation is privacy respecting."
Yes, if you know what you're doing use Librewolf. For everyone else, Firefox is a great move.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

oh, thanks for the information! it appears i was mistaken :}

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They collect everything? I'm on mint. I want extensions, and not have to run my browser like I need to tweak an OS. I just want it to work. What do I use?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox

if user.js editing is too much of a pain then get plain librewolf, go to settings and enable history-saving:

search bar 'history' > scroll to 'history' > disable 'clear history when librewolf closes'.

supports extensions just fine too! :)

https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/ installation for mint

edit: why the downvotes? i cited a good source for my claims.

edit 2: hackernews post about plain firefox being spyware, mental outlaw's video on the topic and eric murphy's video on this.