Maybe then Chrome can finally die.
Chrome messing with my uBlock Origin extension, disabling it and uninstalling it when all this started, was the last straw. I promptly made the jump to Floorp/Firefox and even though I was scared for a long time to switch, it was all good and have zero regrets. I’m very happy I ditched Chrome.
I was scared for a long time to switch
But … why?
I’m honestly asking here. What’s so scary about using a different browser? I’ve got (let me count…) at least 6 different browsers installed on my current machine, switching between them for different tasks each of them is better at.
It’s not like switching from Windows to Linux, where you actually have to say goodbye to Windows (maybe) in order to make the switch. You can easily install Chrome and Firefox, using whichever one suits you at the moment. So what’s so scary about switching?
I held out until the first ad got through adblock (about a year ago, I think?). Switched the same day. Should have done it a lot sooner. I thought it would be a whole thing, but I was set up i a few minutes.
Seriously, who is still using Chrome?
Many people are aggressively non-technical.
But Chrome is only the default browser on Android. Anyone else aggressively non-technical should be using their own default browser, likely Edge … since Windows comes on their computer and Edge comes with Windows.
aggressively non-technical
This is the most succinct and level-headed way to talk about this group that I have seen. Gonna have to start using it.
Sucks to be whoever’s still using that fucking spyware
This teaches us that being open source is not enough. If it’s managed by big tech, it’s still not good. Technically, anyone can take the source and make a fork, but in practice, it’s rarely viable for smaller groups to take a big project and start maintaining it. The same applies to android
. . . FOR SUCKERS
Apparently Firefox still supports MV2.
They do, but it should also be noted that Google’s implementation of MV3 was specifically designed to target adblocking and we know this because Firefox’s implementation of MV3 still enables full adblocking capabilities. So even if Firefox does away with MV2 entirely, uBlockOrigin can work with their MV3.
it supports it and the dev for ubo has outright had benchmarks that ubo blocks more stuff on gecko engine based browsers vs chromium based browsers even during manifest v2 era.
I will say that the best thing about having an OS install on an unsupported machine is that Chrome and even Chromium Legacy (buggy as fuck) no longer work with a damn.
Not that I ever used the browser in any real way, but oh, it’s nice not to have to fret over this MV2 horseshit… (laughs in firefox dynasty…)
