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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20260243

Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

  • kbal
    35•3 months ago

    It’s a good opportunity for any Chrome users in the crowd to switch to Librewolf. It may be a small project but it’s been around for a while and they haven’t made any mistakes that I’ve heard about. Google has its various off-brand browsers using the engine, why shouldn’t Mozilla get some? It comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, and has none of the telemetry and ads of Firefox.

    • @Feyd@programming.dev
      19•3 months ago

      One thing to note about using forks is that they have no chance of being on corporate software whitelists, while firefox does. For that reason, adding to firefox numbers is potentially important. I’ve already seen companies wanting to only allow chrome/edge/safari (even while they officially support firefox …)

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Honestly Firefox is generally easy to maintain. Just update it once in a while and maintain some basic group policies

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        11•3 months ago

        I don’t care about telemetry that reports what features I use and sends crashes, only actual marketing telemetry. Is Fennec a good choice for me? Stuff like Pocket is annoying but you can sort of disable it in about:config. Basically, I hate stuff like Pocket but don’t mind stuff like syncing or non-ad based telemetry.

        • @verdigris@lemmy.ml
          8•3 months ago

          Yeah IMO there is nothing in vanilla Firefox to complain about that you can’t disable easily from the settings. You only need librewolf or the arkenfox user.js if you’re a privacy nut.

            • @verdigris@lemmy.ml
              9•3 months ago

              I don’t mean it as a derogative, but there’s a certain point at which you have to either go whole hog on minimizing your digital footprint, or accept that some companies are gonna know more about you than you would maybe prefer. I think the Firefox defaults are much less onerous than, say, signing up for a loyalty program with any major retailer, and you can disable the few things that do any tracking.

    • @land@lemmy.ml
      1•3 months ago

      Have they implemented the update option yet, or does it still rely on unofficial methods for updating?

      • kbal
        5•3 months ago

        They provide official deb and rpm builds for linux, which get updated in the usual ways. I don’t know about windows but the website says:

        you can choose to install the LibreWolf WinUpdater, which is included in the installer.

        • dittyEnglish
          3•3 months ago

          The LibreWolf WinUpdater works great. You get a small pop-up when there’s an update and it updates super quickly (in my experience in like 15 seconds).

        • heftigEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          Looks like it’s available in the Windows Package Manager Community Repository, so you can update it via winget update LibreWolf.LibreWolf or keep it up to date using the Winget-AutoUpdate tool.