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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[–] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But I will raise people one more. Waterfox

Never heard of it, I prefer LibreWolf
https://librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf

but I'm gonna list some other popular forks

TOR Browser (anti-censorship enhanced fork, bundled with TOR network)
https://www.torproject.org/

GNUzilla IceCat (GNU version)
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

Pale Moon (able to use old XUL based extensions)
https://www.palemoon.org/

Mullvad Browser (a security hardened fork, IIRC based on TOR, made by Mullvad VPN company)
https://mullvad.net/en/browser

ANDROID (Fennec/Fenix)

Fennec F-Droid (Fennec version available on F-Droid, clean of propietary blobs)
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

Mull (hardened fork of Fenix)
https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

IceRaven (yet another hardened fork of Fenix, able to install an extended list of extensions)
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

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