Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge
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Backed by Shopify, huh? Bet they wish that wasn't the case, given recent events.
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Because it's a good product.
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The LGPL does its job, it's not as copyleft as GPL or AGPL, but having those licenses doesn't guarantee that companies will use it, like Gab, which used a fork of Mastodont, Truth Social, or Pawoo. If you want a more restrictive license, the OSI basically won't accept it as open source because it doesn't meet their guidelines.
Also, there are no other browsers due to the standards set by W3C and therefore browsers have to have corporate support.
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No problem!
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My friends who are less tech literate swear by brave. I think it's the way they market their browser... Some of Brave's core audience don't want to install a third party extension for adblock (either they don't like third party or they just don't know they can do it in other browsers)
Also on opening a new tab, they show the stats of how much data they saved and how much ads it blocked. Some people like seeing the number grow.
All this is my speculation. There may be some other reason for it being this popular.
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Perfect time to check out AdGuard Home. Trivial to install locally. Probably took less than 3 minutes to install and get it operating. Hardest part was updating my router config. (Goddamn Google WiFi!)
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Honestly this has been my daily driver for the past 6 months or so.
I really like it. The aesthetics are really modern, while still maintaining all the things I like about firefox.
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If it's being heavily marketed, that's a red flag.
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Yeah, viewing a link without opening it is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
You just viewed a link without opening it.
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people use edge? it downloads itself onto your computer without permission.
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firefox is starting to enshittify, LIBREWOLF, or another might be better.
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There is no full cure. Nothing will offer a Chrome based browser support Manifest v2 after July. Your "cure" is "give up now". Which, hey, if you want to, go for it. But for those that don't for their own reasons, why are you so upset about them having the info about other browsers? I'm offering people information on a option that will preserve the functionality of manifest v2 Chrome based browsers or if they're already using them that are still working meanwhile the article we're talking about is referencing that functionality being removed early.
I find it bizarre that these downvoters are so obsessed with people not having this information. How is this information in peoples hands hurting YOU so much? If you don't want to use Vivaldi? Don't! I'm not your dad. Move on and the people that want this info have it.
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None of these small browsers can make significant changes to the original project. A browser nowadays is a super complex bloated thing that requires too much resources to maintain. If even M$ abandoned their engine to go with Chromium (because it was probably costing them a lot of resources to keep compatibility with the evolving standards, security fixes etc.) what hope is there for small companies? Arguably Apple’s Safari has significant differences compared to Chrome, but we’re talking about Apple…
People thinking this is a solution are gonna get disappointed eventually. For now, Firefox is the only alternative product that has been maintained for decades.
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At work. Corporate web based software doesn't always play nice in firefox.
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Regular Android Firefox has Ublock origins as well.
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I've found Gmail really hates firefox, especially with VPN. I have to use one of those masking extensions. I've found that its basically locked me out of my student email.
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Hmm I haven't had any issues with my university gmail, I wonder if it's that specific college?
