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Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (17 children)

Edge & Firefox exist.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Edge is an euphemism for Microsoft Chrome.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Edge is the worst recommendation I've ever seen in my life

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    It's literally corporate spyware made by Microsoft, one of the shittiest companies in history. It also uses the Chromium rendering engine under the hood, meaning you also support Google's monopoly. It's the worst browser choice you can make. (besides maybe Opera or shit like that)

    Firefox and LibreWolf are the only good browsers that don't support Google's monopoly on browser rendering engines and give you the freedom to block ads

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Won't Edge and all Chromium-based browsers end up with Manifest v3 and no v2? Will extension devs continue to support v2 in Firefox?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Brave claims they will maintain it in their fork but that won’t last long.

    Developers don’t need to keep mv2 support, Firefox supports mv3 plus extra APIs on top.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    And keeping the v2 (or v3+WebRequest) support in the browser is not enough, they'd also have to start running their own extension store since presumably the Chrome one will no longer carry such extensions.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Yes it does still exist. It came preinstalled with the ThinkPad I set up for my daughter yesterday. That's why I immediately installed Firefox and made it the default browser instead.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    deleted by creator

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I wish I could run Linux on it, but it's for her online school next semester and they specified either Mac or Windows. I'm guessing there's a proprietary software situation. Honestly though, she's so inexperienced with Windows (her previous school notebook was a Chromebook issued by the school) that I don't think she's ready for Linux. She screwed things up just playing with system sounds and I had to rescue her.

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