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Peace be with you, folks.
I really hope Firefox keeps its promise and doesn’t remove uBlock. This browser is built on Gecko, it stands on its own, and it should act like it, too. To hell with Google and Bing.
…and therefore my main browser. It’s cool that competitors are handing Firefox a unique selling point.
And sad that, even so, Firefox has been a rounding error in global usage data. 😢
I’ve been using Firefox since it existed, never been disappointed. I just hope that it (or Mozilla) didn’t eventually go bankrupt and dies. You can say what you want about the politics and financing of Mozilla but we desperately need them to prevail.
Same, very rarely “disappointed” with FF outside of the core browser (like the days when Chrome could point to how much RAM older FF was stuck using before Chrome became worse). Still used it as default on desktop and laptop since like 03~04, and completely switched on Android when they started allowing limited extensions (and now can basically force almost all).
The sites themselves are what I actually feel extremely disappointed about. Back when I did randomly buy/stream songs/albums from Amazon it would work. But now they pretend to work and then act like my browser “is out of date” (even link the FF site knowing there isn’t an update and pulls the old IE tactic of really pushing “better with Chrome” or whatever). I don’t use the Netflix site, but know that they have intentionally dark patterned using it on FF with fake limits on being 720p, and very much can run 1080p with third-party extensions likely spoofing Chrome/Chromium coded DRM (I am guessing that is what is being done at least).
Companies are even worse. My girlfriend’s boyfriend was trying to buy a train ticket from Deutsche Bahn, and there just were none available. It was baffling. He asked me to check (because he was in a hotel room) and I, too, could not find any.
Turns out, they refuse to sell tickets to customers that use Linux!!?! Change the OS in your browser ID string, and magically all sorts of tickets appear!
Like wtf, how purposefully evil do you have to be to run a business like that? What is even the point?
Stuff like that is worse than sites only working with Chrome/Chromium. It is infuriating that site reaches deeper for the OS. A website should work so long as the browser is used.
I am celebrating my fourth year chromium-free, not that long but it’s better late than never. And now I just can’t resist installing firefox with ublock urigin in any laptop or phone that gets into my hands😁.
Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo—the two other major non-Chromium browsers out there—support uBlock Origin.
DDG’s browser is using webview, meaning it uses chrome on Windows/Android. Also not what I would consider a major browser.
Even if Firefox drops support, it’s doubtful that many of its major forks will drop support.
For those who want to use something other than a Firefox fork, there are some options.
- Brave has built in ad blocking, but you need to disable a lot of their crap. There are scripts out there that can do it quickly.
- Helium is in beta, but it bundles uBO.
- Orion is currently only available for macOS, but it has a beta for for Linux available. It can install extensions from both Chrome and Firefox.
Brave Origin on Linux is free, it’s the one that has the extra garbage ripped out. I don’t like braves practices but as a security person I really do admire how Brave Shields functions. Graphene said they were interested in lifting shields off of brave to put in vanadium but it currently wasn’t a top priority.
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