Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge
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Less browsing of news articles?
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I work in research and development, I have to constantly search the web for stuff
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If you think SSO and easy profile migration doesn't save time, there's simply no point in discussing it with you. I don't like MS and their near monopoly position as a company much either. But that doesn't mean every product they make is utter trash for every situation.
There are undoubtedly other solutions but to pretend every one is too dumb to use them shows how little actual experience working in a variety of companies is.
Back in the nineties you might have had Novell NetWare or just plain old LDAP instead of AD, but unlike those competitors AD kept working and offered upgrade trajectories. And it offered decent integration with a decent mailserver (that ofcourse sucked to set up securely for outside access), and that mailserver was fantastic versus the utterly terror that was Domino combined with Notes.
I don't like MS for basically forcing you to go to their cloud now, but pretending it's a bad product through and through on a functional level is just being willingly blind. -
AdBlock Plus has been a sell-out for many years now. Only trust uBlock Origin.
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What's the advantage over regular Firefox?
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They recently started developing it again, after being silent for a long time. They released Amarok 3.0 in April 2024 which migrated it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
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The web platform is huge... It's going to take a long time to reach parity with other browsers.
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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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It didn't for me on Linux :^)
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I don't suggest Librewolf for the plebians though.
It comes with very aggressive anti-fingerprinting and privacy features.
For people in [email protected] that's less of a problem but I wouldn't suggest it to my family members.
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Click on all the ads and install all the malware. That will teach them.
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You can think of it as a mobile version of LibreWolf. Strict security settings are default and Mozilla's telemetry is disabled/removed. Also unlike regular Firefox, you can download it from F-Droid (currently you need their repo but it'll be added officially soon, probably).
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That's the defeatist attitude of a true MCSE scholar.
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Intune can manage Firefox add-ons btw, no need to use any extra systems.
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Firefox is in the process of enshittifying.
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Bullshit.
If you want to use the browser despite those controversies then that's your choice, but be honest enough to admit they exist.
I don't use brave and haven't for a long time, but these things are well documented.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-browser-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/brave-affiliate-links-autocomplete
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Are they doing their own development or are they still mostly reliant on Mozilla? The thing with all these forks is that I doubt they'd be able to continue development if Mozilla were to disappear, since they still rely heavily on Mozilla.
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people think of browsers and operating systems here like it's a religion or something, it makes them crazy. google is a problem, but it's not like mozilla isn't going to pull the same crap when it gets big enough.
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They are reliant. These forks are basically tweaked Firefox.
Yeah, FIrefox is a huge code base. If Mozilla disappears, some big developer group must take over the flag. Otherwise with only community effort, the development would be slowed down.
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All the people who bluster and huff about Microsoft's stranglehold on enterprise, education, government, etc all absolutely fail to grasp how utterly manageable Windows specifically (and MS products in general) is/are. If you're familiar with Group Policy, you know; if you're not, your really, really dont. A moderately competent Windows admin with a single Windows Server can make ten thousand Windows workstations work seamlessley in fifty countries, twenty data protection doctrines and ten languages with hundreds of customisations, tweaks, automations and deployments tailored to each combination of device/user/location, if that's what they need. I wish that was the case with any FOSS OS, but it absolutely isn't and even MacOS and ChromeOS don't come even vaugley close.
