Firefox encountered a sad
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And I'm grateful for these people. If everyone was using adblockers then companies like Google and advertisers would try even harder to break adblockers so it's best if some amount of the population continues to browse without adblockers so I can get ad free access to the internet
This is my favorite take on this site. Thank you.
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It's fine for now it's just beholden to upstream which isn't in a good state, not actually independent. I'm certainly being hyperbolic.
Yes that's fair, wish there was a truly independent browser available.
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And I'm grateful for these people. If everyone was using adblockers then companies like Google and advertisers would try even harder to break adblockers so it's best if some amount of the population continues to browse without adblockers so I can get ad free access to the internet
It’s naive to think they’re not trying as hard as they can. Companies are not allowed to stop going for more, if 99% of all users didn’t block ads, they’d go just as hard after the 1% that did.
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Didn't make Chrome Adblockers unusable a while ago? Are 90% of the people now using chrome with ads??
They always were. Chrome on mobile has never supported add-ons, and that's been the main driver of browsing for a while now.
Desktop Chrome still has ad-blockers, but they're just less effective now, as they can't phone home for faster updates iirc.
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They always were. Chrome on mobile has never supported add-ons, and that's been the main driver of browsing for a while now.
Desktop Chrome still has ad-blockers, but they're just less effective now, as they can't phone home for faster updates iirc.
The most significant changes was around the webRequest API, used to intercept and modify network requests. uBlock Origin used the API to block unwanted content before it loads. Google killed it because they want to force their ads and tracking on users.
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it's really a lifesaver for us lactose intolerant folk. regular uBo gives me gas.
It's something 80% of the population suffers from! Might be linked to vaccines.
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Europe is not golden. New european laws are getting more and more authoritarian.
You may end with a browser thar automatically ask you for a id to log all your browsing "for the children!"
Fuck every EU politician, that dreams of Palantir spy tech.
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It’s naive to think they’re not trying as hard as they can. Companies are not allowed to stop going for more, if 99% of all users didn’t block ads, they’d go just as hard after the 1% that did.
I'm sure they are not sitting on their hands but if someday it started affecting their profits at a larger level, they'd put far more resources into anti ad block I think than they do now, also Chrome has already made ad blockers difficult to run on chrome which I guess was their endgame, thankfully non chrome based browsers like Firefox and Safari still exist so I'll continue supporting them, hopefully ladybird is also successful
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uBoL sucks A LOT compared to uBo.
Can you elaborate? Does it let some ads through?
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Can you elaborate? Does it let some ads through?
They had to remove a lot of features for uBoL to be MV3-compliant.
