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Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge

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  • L [email protected]

    people use edge? it downloads itself onto your computer without permission.

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    Honestly, it's pretty easy to dunk on edge. But it's based on the same chromium browser. They have excellent customer support. I have in the past submitted bug reports and they have followed up.
    Until now, they had pretty good privacy and options in their settings. With this v2 / v3 situation, I will have to reassess all that.

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    • T [email protected]

      Tell IT and your boss how your productivity tanked since edge disabled uBlock.

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      This might actually reverse firefox's decline in userbase at least in the business world. Any shop that already has multi-OS management could probably insta-switch to firefox, and i'm sure that MS locked-in places could too given enough of a push by IT.

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      • J [email protected]

        Microsoft is a spineless removed.

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        Why is it that when I see removed, it's always from lemmy.ml, is that the only instance with the filter enabled

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          What's Edge?

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          They get you really close but stop just before finishing.

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          • R [email protected]

            Right, you don't need extensions, because you don't need customization, because what you need is what we the corp say you need.

            I think Web as it exists is a failed branch of evolution.

            A networked (solved) hypertext (solved) document (solved) system - yes. A networked hypertext system with one or two unbelievably complex clients, where only enormous corps have enough resources to change something, - no. One can add steps - E2E encryption, dynamic services, scripts, all not requiring a monolithic piece of nonsense.

            BTW, those hating Flash, I hope, do realize that its proper, paradigm-abiding replacement would be a FOSS plugin with similar goal, not what we have.

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            I feel similarly. Javascript was made to add some functionality to documents and now we're basically running Doom in a word professor. I don't know what a better system would look like, but I'd draw a line between document-type pages and pages that you want to do more on.

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            • S [email protected]

              Weirdly enough, I like buying movies to encourage people to keep making the kinds of movies I enjoy watching. I have some physical media, but often times you can't find 4k versions of movies on physical media.

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              If you rely so much on buying digital, be ready for a surprise later on down the line.

              A lot of PlayStation users found out the hard way.

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              • W [email protected]

                Personally I keep a copy of chromium around just for Google meet. Everything else is on Firefox.

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                I used to just use Firefox for Google Meet, but it seems they broke it somewhere along the way. Probably on purpose.

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                • J [email protected]

                  Hmm I haven't had any issues with my university gmail, I wonder if it's that specific college?

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                  They might be using a third party authenticator to control access. My own job does that. Though I've been told we're moving to Outlook soon.

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                  • engineergaming@feddit.nlE [email protected]

                    If the disk is going to be unused/thrown out anyway - why not buy a digital copy? Its only job would be corresponding to a usable file you download anyway... I do that with Steam games.

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                    Archive the physical copy for the inevitable shutdown. No one can stop an old disc player plugged into a dumb tv.

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                      Genuine question - isn’t their terms basically “if you use these third party services you’re subject to their terms, and also were going to collect some data to see if people actually use this feature or if it’s a waste of time?”

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                      The Privacy Policy for a long time has been that they use your data for marketing. I'm honestly completely confused why people are always recommending it.

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                        Archive the physical copy for the inevitable shutdown. No one can stop an old disc player plugged into a dumb tv.

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                        But no one can take a file from my hard drives either. No need for it to be on a low-capacity disk when a thing half the size of a DVD box can fit orders of magnitude more.

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                        • kspatlas@sopuli.xyzK [email protected]

                          Why is it that when I see removed, it's always from lemmy.ml, is that the only instance with the filter enabled

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                          It's the biggest one still federated with .world with that filter.

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                            What's Edge?

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                            The browser you use to download Firefox

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                              Why would you do this to him

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                              Because the best sort of shit post is one that's also informative!

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                                It's the biggest one still federated with .world with that filter.

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                                How would lemmy.ml being federated with lemmy.world affect how a user on sopuli.xyz sees content posted by a lemmy.ml account?

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                                  And your arguments have the strength of the hobbyist with the homelab he's constantly having to reinstall, not understanding why companies are so stupid to not do the same thing as him.

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                                  Funny that you mention it. Not a single reinstall since I switched my homelab to nixOS. That, and using Tailscale has made hosting your own stuff easier than ever. Microsoft and Google environments are just gross, bloated and dependant on the amateurs who still work for those graveyard companies. I spent close to 20 years working professionally on that crap and won't touch it anymore. Sorry if you're still stuck in the past.

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                                    What's Edge?

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                                    a chromium skin

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                                    • D [email protected]

                                      It integrates very well with your M365 you need at work, and it saves a ton of time when people can use SSO to basically get everything up and running immediately on a new laptop. Including bookmarks and passwords.

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                                      Firefox also has SSO integration with M365! Last I tested it it was less clean than Microsoft's but it does exist and work the last time I used it

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                                        Tell IT and your boss how your productivity tanked since edge disabled uBlock.

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                                        So, unironically, I do plan to request Firefox with uBlock Origin as a reasonable accomodation for my ADHD if I'm not able to use it at a job in the future. Banner ads are genuinely distracting and I have a real disability that makes them worse for me.

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                                        • krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                                          Amarok is the other wolf. I know it looks deceptively similar.

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                                          Looks like

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