Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.
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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • kautau@lemmy.world
    924·
    27 days ago

    Why the LMAO?

    Firefox was and still is recently vulnerable to a massive zero day:

    https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/critical-mozilla-firefox-zero-day-code-execution

    Mozilla is now using users for their new AI focus.

    We need to support continuous competition in the browser market through enhanced support and integration of W3C standards. And at the most important, decoupling corporations from the browsers. At the moment, it seems Google is being actively defensive (see manifest v3) against that while Firefox (Mozilla corporate) is just sort of moot on the issue, more concerned with AI.

    As soon as you think it’s “us vs them” and your browser is also owned by a for profit company, we’ve lost

    • BonerMan@ani.social
      332·
      27 days ago

      There are Firefox forks like LibreWolf if you need to be a crybaby about Mozilla being a company that needs to pay their developers with the most user friendly way possible…

      Also their AI is more of a play thing for some of their developers, they need to go with the flow at least a bit. Its also opt in where i am, idk if thats the case everywhere, but if not its opt out.

      Furthermore, from your own article:

      Mozilla has patched a critical security vulnerability in its Firefox Web browser that’s being actively exploited in the wild

      Oh noooo they patched it.

      Keep being a crybaby and use Opera, for all i care you can even install yourself red star OS.

    • muelltonne@feddit.orgEnglish
      201·
      27 days ago

      Still better than Chrome. Mozilla is not perfect, but in comparison to Google and its behavior they are saints.