Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    56·
    16 hours ago

    So, I can finally point and laugh at the people who were saying that the manifest V3 thing was a non issue because their ad blocker was still working ?

    • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      16·
      9 hours ago

      No, because ad blocks work perfectly fine.

      I’m using Ghostery on Vivaldi (Chromium-based) and it works perfectly fine, including blocking ads during YouTube videos.

      No idea why uBlock specifically is being blocked, but it’s not like you can’t have an ad-blocker anymore.

      • Übercomplicated@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Out of curiosity, why do you use Ghostery rather than uBlock Origin? It was quite controversial back in the day, but seems to be open source and stuff now. I still don’t see any advantage over uBO, though, so I wonder what would move you to use it instead.

      • black0ut@pawb.socialEnglish
        12·
        10 hours ago

        At a lower efficiency than before, and a lot of stuff now won’t get blocked because of the limit in definitions.

          • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            48 minutes ago

            only ads on big sites or ads by big providers are blocked. cookie prompts and other annoyances much less, because there is a great variety of them. data mining and hardware fingerprinting cannot even be thwarted anymore.

            sure, if you only care about ads, but not at all about your privacy, it does not mean much to you. personally I would rather see ads (topic based) than give up my privacy, and the complete uBlock Origin is very useful for privacy too.