Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge
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Microsoft is a spineless removed.
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You're not wrong about it being easy to set up and use, but the reason it's still the defacto is because of its earlier monopoly. Now, they are slowly killing what made it the best Enterprise option either by its greedy licensing schemes hiding things you used to use behind new and additional licensing or breaking them with untested patches that go straight from dev to production.
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This is understandable, and also can see why FOSS would struggle, since a big part of the value is keeping the operators of the machines from doing the things they want or need to do. This is anathema to general FOSS thinking, to keep the user from doing things they would generally be empowered to do.
Which I can see as being great for the admins, but it is often maddening to be a user under that regime. For example, "officially" I must use the corporate load for my work, and it's super locked down. Problem being is the lock down makes my job effectively impossible (unable to run arbitrarily new binaries, unable to connect to services without a proper certificate, unable to add my own certificates, must get all binaries and service certificates from IT who takes 2-3 weeks to turnaround a signature). So you have a few departments resorting to that naughtiest of naughty words "Shadow IT", always looking for end-runs around the corp policy that explicitly blocks software development work because they wouldn't be able to discern that from malware.
Ours also shot us in the head, by forcing automatic updates off (because they know better how to deploy patches than Micrsoft I guess) and then there's a ransomware attack that cripples things because they didn't realize they failed to apply security updates for two years on most systems. Fortunately enough people had been manually updating to keep things going.
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Let me help you:
flatpak install flathub com.microsoft.Edge
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Hes the kind of person that gets haughty and arrogant over warnings to be safe.
and the first person to start crying about "how did this happen, how could anybody let this happen, why didnt anyone stop this from happening!" the second they are personally fucked over by ignoring the repeated warnings they were given.
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Thanks for the eli5
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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. -
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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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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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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If you rely so much on buying digital, be ready for a surprise later on down the line.
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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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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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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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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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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.
