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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (www.pcworld.com)
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Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

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[–] 284 points 4 weeks ago (30 children)

I can't imagine using the web without firefox and ublock. Even the cookie consent popups are awful.

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  • [–] 49 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

    Seriously. I clear my cookies on Firefox exit because I don’t want their shit on my computer if it isn’t needed.

    This would cause me to see them every single damn time.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    Yeah, the user experience of "just wipe cookies on browser exit" is a lot better than "have a million prompts all over zillions of sites".

    However, regarding "every single damn time"...some sites can have their "do you want cookies" popup just blocked by the Firefox I still don't care about cookies addon. It's not a solution for every site out there, but it'll get a lot of them.

    It's also possible to use another extension, Behind the Overlay on some sites. This does require a click, so manual action, but it tries to identify "pop-over" content that covers up the browser window and remove it with that click. It's really intended as a more-general solution to "pop-over" stuff, but cookie pop-ups often take this form and can be dismissed.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    have a million prompts all over zillions of sites”.

    I'm using Ghostery to automatically reject all of those. They pop-in and almost immediately disappear.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Ghostery blocks trackers then sells data about your tracking blocking habits. It was the first tracker blocker I heard of but Privacy Badger is the better one nowadays.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Ublock Lite still works in Chrome (and it still blocks YouTube ads, not sure about cookie popups), but you get no control over the filters. Just a slider with some presets to choose from. So while better than nothing, just stick with Firefox.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago (17 children)

    LibreWolf, WaterFox and Vivaldi

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago* (5 children)

    vivaldi recently disabled uBO and said it’d soon be unsupported. you can re-enable for now

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

    I was using vivaldi and they were kind enough(seriously) to inform me that they don't support ublock anymore maybe a week ago.

    Not sure about the reason but I think that it's a technical thing the Google changed to deliberately make it easy to end ublock on a lot of browsers. Might not be the only reason(actual tech upgrades) but I believe it's part of the reason since major conspiracies seem much more likely these days.

    Anyway, I switched back to Librewolf even though it can't play x.265 files (jellyfin). Anything that kills the use of ublock is dead to me even though they have their own shitty, bullshit blocking solution. It's never going to be as good as ublock edit grammar and shit

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    It's not a conspiracy. It's been a very well published and discussed process.

    There are exceptions but browsers are either reconfigurations of firefox, like librewolf, or reconfigurations of google chrome, like vivaldi.

    Some dweeb will be along in a moment to tell us all how vivaldi is not merely a reconfiguration, but the point is ...

    google changed the manner in which plugins can interact with the web page you see. In recent months you could re-enable the old plugin interface by recompiling with a different configuration, but once google makes a change that breaks that old interface then you can't just re-enable it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Anyway, I switched back to Librewolf even though it can't play x.265 files (jellyfin).

    you should check that again, Firefox gained support for it last year.

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Guides/Formats/Video_codecs#hevc_h.265

    check the browser compatibility column in the table. it seems maybe Firefox is the only one supporting it even for those without hardware acceleration?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Admittedly, I haven't tried too hard to get it working in any of the FF browsers lately...my unraid server blew up and it was handling hardware acceleration with a cheap intel vid card. I haven't felt like messing with until now so I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the info

    edit: no transcoding when l tried an x.265 in regular firefox. sweet

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    ...may you elaborate?

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  • [–] -2 points 4 weeks ago* (4 children)

    LibreWolf has it pre-installed and is Open-source. It worked on waterfox an Open-source fork of Firefox, last time I tried.

    As for Vivaldi I guess use Brave instead.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Brave is the money generator of a far right hate group. Fuck Brendan Eich, fuck their ad replacement scam, fuck everything Brave.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Really!!??!? I had no clue!!!!!

    I just got back into being into the open source life after going back to Ubuntu after almost 20 years later. I stopped using Ubuntu in 2009 when Pigeon was an aio instant messenger client.

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  • [+] -18 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    And Brave, don't forget brave

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  • [–] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    No, you should forget brave it's yet another piece of shit chrome knock off. Just like the rest. It ain't immune. It can kick and scream but either the entire project dies or they bend the knee eventually.

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