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will ad-blockers in chromium follow suit when chrome discontinues them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all, I was about to setup uBlock Origin in chromium, when I saw the notice that it may soon be ended due to not following best practices, etc. I looked this up and some articles and posts state that Chrome is discontinuing content blockers / ad blockers soon. Will this apply to the chromium app in Linux?

Other than for testing purposes, my usage of Chromium is for the ability to make some sites into webApps. I just like some to be isolated with their own window and icon. The standard response I see to pretty much anyone is that they should switch to Firefox and stop wanting the webApp. I saw some comments that Firefox does not and will not implement webApps due to some security issues (?? not sure why). I don't understand how it is difficult just make a standalone window with a custom icon choice. I see no reason that has to compromise anything at all, but I am not a developer.

I'm getting off-track here. So, is Chromium going to go the way Google wants it to go for Chrome? It was my understanding that Chromium is kind of an offshoot and not just up to Google in terms of its course. Will we be able to use extensions that Google doesn't want, and have to get them from a new repository instead of the chrome web store?

Any insight on this would be appreciated, thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Edit: it appears the PWA support in Firefox is not ideal, see responses to this comment.

Chromium is not an offshoot of Chrome, it's more of a precursor to Chrome, and it is completely controlled by Google. As such, it will also drop support for extensions that do not support Manifest v3.

If you want to enable PWA support in Firefox, it looks like this is possible (however the experience doesn't seem to be great, see responses to this comment): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/Installing

For other browser suggestions see, e.g. https://www.xda-developers.com/4-browsers-manifest-v2-ublock-origin/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are a couple interesting browser these days, for example floorp. It’s always interesting to check who is behind a browser, in the case of floorp it’s a Japanese company which I like.

They might still pull a corporate fast one on you, but at least they will apologise profusely over it. It’s also genuinely a nice browser, obviously fully open source and privacy focused. I think it’s a nice filter between my browser and mozilla which lost some trust from me over time.

https://floorp.app/en

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They might still pull a corporate fast one on you, but at least they will apologise profusely over it.

I've never seen Nintendo or Sony apologise for it.

I feel like the whole apologising profusely thing is a stereotype about Japanese people, maybe with a core of truth in it, but it doesn't seem to apply to their corporate culture.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Please understand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Floorps pwa is still behind tge pwa extension. I wish it provided different prifiles for each pwa.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You got me so excited, your comment needs an edit. PWAs are not supported on Firefox desktop. The article even says so. It recommends an extension that is super janky requiring manual CSS edits to files in the FF folder, and multiple profiles. (from experience).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Desktop web apps are being looked at though, so there's that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I've updated my comment.