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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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If Firefox ever drops ublock it will be time to abandon browsers altogether and just read the magazines in those weekly torrent dumps. Set up search in your torrenting software and you don't even need a browser
We are long overdue to declare web bankruptcy. This whole paradigm of turning the browser into an operating system unto itself and allowing every random webpage to run scripts on your machine which fingerprint and track you is probably the greatest mistake in the history of computing. This architectural choice is the cornerstone of contemporary surveillance capitalism.
The only upside was OS interoperability which has made it easier to switch away from Windows, but it has come at too great a cost
2027 is the year of the good Gemini.
Mozilla fundamentally can't block ublock because Firefox is FOSS. All the other mainstream browsers are proprietary. Firefox is licensed under MPL.
Some extensions get removed from the Firefox extension site, such as addons that promote copyright infringement, because Mozilla can't legally promote that stuff. You can however still install extensions from files.
Even if the main Firefox browser executable from Mozilla were to block ublock extension, then people could legally fork the Firefox code to make their own browser.
Isn’t chromium also (supposed to be) FOSS? Or am I misremembering
FOSS ceases to be democratic when a company like Google funds its development. I don't know of a fork of Chromium that declined to move to manifest 3, but there probably is one.
Yeah hence “supposed to be”
I’m only semi-tech-literate, what is this manifest 3 thing and why does it kill Ublock? And if chromium is open, shouldn’t forks be able to modify whatever manifest 3 is to restore the abilities Ublock needs?
I don't know all the details but I believe uBlock Origin relies on very long lists of servers that serve ads and declines to download from them, and manifest v3 limits the length of those lists so that they have to pick and choose which ones. Hence the uBlock origin lite, the lists are shorter.