Google's campaign against ad blockers across its services just got more aggressive. According to a report by PC World, the company has made some alterations to its extension support on Google Chrome.
Google Chrome recently changed its extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the new Manifest V3 framework. The browser policy changes will impact one of the most popular adblockers (arguably), uBlock Origin.
The transition to the Manifest V3 framework means extensions like uBlock Origin can't use remotely hosted code. According to Google, it "presents security risks by allowing unreviewed code to be executed in extensions." The new policy changes will only allow an extension to execute JavaScript as part of its package.
Over 30 million Google Chrome users use uBlock Origin, but the tool will be automatically disabled soon via an update. Google will let users enable the feature via the settings for a limited period before it's completely scrapped. From this point, users will be forced to switch to another browser or choose another ad blocker.
182 Comments
BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 162 pts · 2y
In their eyes they just made 30 million more customers.
Fucking parasites.
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 2y
They made Firefox a good number of new customers.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com · 66 pts · 2y
I‘m really anxious for firefox as google is the main financier afaik.
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y
It is a worry. I think we might end up needing to pay for Firefox ourselves.
lnxtx@feddit.nl · 35 pts · 2y
I will happily donate.
If, of course, money won't go to the CEO.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
stoy@lemmy.zip · -7 pts · 2y
A CEO is a needed possition, I know in the past the Brendan Eich was controversial in his political views, but Laura Chambers seems ok so far
kugmo@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y
At least Brendan Eich was a developer, good on him for being Christian.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com · 9 pts · 2y
Not sure firefox will be on our side after the recent ad tracking debacle. If they implement one more anti consumer feature I‘m jumping ship.
przmk@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 2y
Jump ship to what? Not like there's s lot of choices out there. You could always try LibreWolf.
JustMarkov@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
LadyBird is very promising.
przmk@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y
They plan a release for 2028. It's going to be a while before it can be used for everyday browsing.
Asudox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I agree.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com · 4 pts · 2y
That would be my first address, assuming the librewolf folks will never accept anti community code, hopefully.
If everything fails i‘m fine to join a small project and help with it. I have some skills and can contribute financially.
TWeaK@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Plenty of Firefox forks out there.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 2y
Netscape Navigator and Opera raise their hand
przmk@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Well, Opera is also based on Chromium.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Wait, Navigator still exists?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · -6 pts · 2y
Librewolf is just a reskinned Firefox.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 2y
Purged of unwanted and intrusive features, UBO pre installed, and is pre configured for increased privacy.
kusivittula@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 2y
look up ladybird. we may soon have a 3rd browser!
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com · 12 pts · 2y
Looks promising. Lets see where it goes. https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
toastal@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
It’s hard to take a project seriously for championing our privacy if the only communication options are Discord & Microsoft Github
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com · 0 pts · 1y
Feel free to offer hosting something else for them. Be the change you want to see.
toastal@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
There are free (both kinds) options to these problems if they can’t afford it—and that still isn’t an excuse to require all coms go thru US-based proprietary services with big privacy implications.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
I am hopeful they will get some more corporate backing. We can donate all day but that is a drop in the bucket compared to a few million from some large companies
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
In 2026
mEEGal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
That's supoosed to be the preview release date on Linux and MacOS...
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
If they can stay funded I believe them
Catsrules@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...
Spaniard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
2026 isn't soon.
Mikina@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y
IIRC, only like 2% of Mozilla spending goes towards FF (I may be misinterpreting something, but I remember 2% being thrown around), so funding FF without rest of Mozilla bullshit shouldn't be that hard. Of course, since Mozilla did spend so little on FF, it's a question how much they actually care about FF and what would happen if they lost access to their golden goose. They shouldn't have problem funding FF, but they probably have other bullshit they don't want to let go and that has more priority for them.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 2y
A list of Mozilla's "other bullshit":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products
Mikina@programming.dev · 14 pts · 2y
You are right, it was unfairly harsh wording, I apologize for that. Most of those products are super cool and important, I've kind of extrapolated it from what I've read in other posts about them spending too much on stuff like events and other, non-developemnt, related stuff that I actually never checked, while also not realizing that they also have a ton of other projects, which mixed with the dissapointment with the recent development about the Meta partnership led to me choosing that wording unfairly.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
For now. They could default to yahoo and make money. Maybe not as much, but they could sustain browser development.
Firefox is still far superior to chromium.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com · 2 pts · 2y
I agree. That could work. We‘ll see.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
All 10 of us
suction@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 2y
Firefox isn’t exactly “the good guys” either
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
You expect good guys?
suction@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
No
Dayroom7485@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I agree but isn't the choice between "the terrible guys" and "the okayish guys"?
suction@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
If you don’t know the good guys, then yes that’s your choice
NoRodent@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
So who are the good guys, mind you telling? As far as I'm aware, currently it's a choice between Chromium based browsers and Firefox and its forks. So really just 2 options in the grand scheme of things.
suction@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y
Tell me you’re poor without telling me you’re poor
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
I prefer flawed but trying guys to guys with zero morals that farm every ounce of data they can.
suction@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Firefox has telemetry too
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
And it can be turned off.
suction@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
100% of it? Nope.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y
What are you stating cannot be turned off?
This sounds baseless without any evidence.
Bulletdust@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Between two evils, Firefox is the comparative good guy. There's not a chance in hell I'm using anything based on Chromium, I've been using FF for close to two decades now and I've experienced very few dealbreaker issues.
feoh@lemmy.ml · 97 pts · 2y
Friends don't let friends run Chrome.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
Couldn't have said it better.
foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml · 71 pts · 2y
Not only intrusive ads, intrusive trackers too
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 2y
Remember like 2 weeks ago when Google's very own ad networks were distributing malware?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
TaintPuncher@lemmy.ml · 45 pts · 2y
It’s not perfect but PiHole will still catch a lot of the ads if you have the know-how to set one up. Tis a relatively cheap and easy solution that has the benefit of being able to block ads network-wide, providing your router lets you set a custom DNS.
https://pi-hole.net
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 18 pts · 2y
Even if my Internet provider forced me to use their router I'd plug my own router in behind that one fuck that.
ArbiterXero@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Some isp’s have been detecting the second router and giving people shit for it.
But I’m with you on that, I don’t trust the isp’s backdoored router-modem. Hard pass.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Giving people shit how? This is the first time I hear something like this. In my case, my ISP does not allow bridging a router, so I NAT mine instead, and it works just fine.
ArbiterXero@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah, they can still tell that you’re Nat behind another router.
But they don’t like it because it gives them less access to your network and more possibility for something to be wrong
socphoenix@midwest.social · 4 pts · 2y
I’ve never had an isp complain about me using my own router in the US, is this just common in other countries or have I just been lucky?
ArbiterXero@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
It’s a rarity afaik, I’ve only heard of one or two cases, but a concerning report to me personally.
Though I’m Canadian so it’ll be a few years before it filters here (assuming it catches on)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y
How would they do that? Maybe by looking at ports? You could just lie and say you only have one device.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
The moment they see their ONT is registering only 1 device (the router) it's clear everything is being routed via that.
I have never not had a router natted behind my modem. They can see the amount of packets and data I use over the ISP, but that's about it. On top of that my LANs and VLANs are all VPNd through NordVPN before anything hits the WAN and all DNS traffic goes though my Adguard Home and Quad9 as well, so there's that.
pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr · 5 pts · 2y
Why do you trust NordVPN more than your ISP ? Is your ISP known to be especially bad ?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
How do they know that it isn't just a single device network?
ArbiterXero@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Probably just MAC address lookups, but also possibly something weird like “ttl “ stats
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
The MAC address would match the out bound interface of the router
XTL@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
Don't NAT. Just bump in the wire firewall plus local DNS server.
psud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
There's always NAT. You get one IP address, your router/wifi shares the network using NAT
But ISPs aren't looking for NAT, since everyone with wifi is using it
Petter1@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y
https://cablehaunt.com/
😂
variants@possumpat.io · 16 pts · 2y
Even cheaper to just stop using chrome
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
Don't use Chrome. It has plenty of issues including backdoors by Google.
nucleative@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Second this, Pihole is great and protects every device on your network too - mobile phones, smart TVs, tablets, Nintendo Switches, etc.
It's wild how much telemetry is baked into stuff that you can just cut the nuts off of.
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
Its worth noting however this can cause weird problems since its system wide and even network wide if you set it up that way.
As an example, my wifes Spotify podcasts didn't work for months only for us to discover pihole was blocking the cdn Spotify uses.
zod000@lemmy.ml · 43 pts · 2y
Screw you Google. Enjoy your antitrust.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 2y
Daxtron2@startrek.website · 41 pts · 2y
Its a good thing I've been using Firefox for almost 2 decades then.
Modva@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 2y
Moved to Firefox some months ago, it's fine. Small adjustment but browsers generally offer high interchangeability
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 37 pts · 2y
Stop using chrome and move to Firefox, also stop using Windows and more to Linux.
ActionHank@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 2y
Or the Mullvad browser, Mullvad's fork of FF with zero ads with help from the Tor project.
JameUwU@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
shadycomposer@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Google is Mozilla’s dad so I’m not sure how long we will be able to use FF with v2.
toastal@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Even a short-lived chance to cling to Fx is worth something. Hopefully they will team up with others to port the missing parts to v3.
Mixel@szmer.info · -6 pts · 2y
Firefox is now owned by ads company. By default there are enabled telemetrics and moreover companies starts to ignore compability of their web services with browser which market share is lower than 2% even goverments stops considering that browser. Mozzila instead of optimization of their browser spend time introduceing features like AI. I was trying to like that browser but mozzila effectively does not allow me. Now btw. I use just vivaldi. I know this is not fully open source.
LeLachs@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
Which "ads company"? No offense, just curious.
Mixel@szmer.info · -3 pts · 2y
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/mozilla-anonym-acquisition-privacy-preserving-advertising-online#:~:text=Mozilla%2C%20the%20company%20that%20owns,privacy%2Dpreserving%20digital%20advertising%20company.
Matthew@midwest.social · 12 pts · 2y
Says Mozilla owns the ad company. Not sure where it says the ad company owns mozilla
psud@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Were Firefox to go bad, we would use a non-bad fork off Firefox. It's open source.
Mixel@szmer.info · 3 pts · 2y
They are not independent. It all soft fork. Everything depends on firefox. If firefox die all the forks will die with too.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
So you use Chromium...
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
panicnow@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 2y
You can get a pass till July 2025 by creating/setting a registry key that they made for businesses.
Paste this in a .reg file and double click it.
blackwateropeth@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y
At this rate people should just cut the cord with google. Modifying reg files is almost as annoying as moving bookmarks over. Firefox + uBlock + pihole (if you’re feeling ambitious/want to block other crap that’s non-browser related) and you’re chillin.
lud@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
Moving bookmarks takes about 10 seconds to do.
blackwateropeth@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Yea that’s why say, just as annoying. Which I guess for the PC illiterate registry edits are more dangerous?
I personally moved off google about 2 years ago (started using start page as well) and haven’t looked back.
lud@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 2y
I have no idea what you are talking about but whatever.
Kekzkrieger@feddit.org · 35 pts · 2y
you could instead just download firefox, which isnt perfect either but still a huge improvement over any chromium browser
crazyminner@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 2y
And thus, this day will be remembered as the great browser migration.
charonn0@startrek.website · 13 pts · 2y
Bust this trust.
Mikina@programming.dev · 12 pts · 2y
I'm not sure what Mullvad is based on - i think it's on Tor, which is Firefox based?
I do use mostly LibreWolf, but if FF also went to shit, I wonder if Tor, and thus Mullvad, would keep on going or not. Because I suppose LibreWolf would have troubles with keeping up, if Mozilla would enshitify FF, since they would probably have to fork and continue development on their own.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 15 pts · 2y
Browser engines are ridiculously complex, nearly on the level of operating systems. All of the Firefox forks are really just different UIs built around Gecko/Quantum - those other projects aren't really maintaining their own engines, they're dependent on Mozilla's work to remain stable, secure and relevant.
Mikina@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y
Yeah, I know and that's what I'm afraid of. I guess I'll just have to come to terms with most websites not working in some obscure web browser that's not feature-complete. Would actually help with my addiction, so it won't be so bad, I guess.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Firefox works for nearly everything. The only stuff that doesn't work for me is Xitter embeds, and this is a gift that keeps on giving.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
mullvad browser is based on FF
jsomae@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y
This is the perfect time to go aggressive on telling your friends to switch to Firefox
Mikina@programming.dev · 10 pts · 2y
If it keeps going on like this, it won't be long before I'll just say fuck it and switch to elinks...
Hmm, on that note - is there any CLI web browser that can do javascript and css? Because iirc, elinks doesn't, though I havent used it in years.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2y
Lynx ftw! Not sure if that's been maintained since the 90s though.
dunz@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 2y
You can't improve on perfection!
Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Lynx is still actively maintained. I use it from time to time when I don't feel like leaving the command line to look something up or whatever. It works really well still. So long as all you care about is text.
If you like to use reader mode you'll probably like Lynx.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
browsh does, but uses FF as backend renderer
TheNickOfTime@fedia.io · 4 pts · 2y
Holy mother of BASED
ssm@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
The sooner you abandon javascript and css, the sooner you can be free
toastal@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Elinks for can do basic CSS & JS. I wish there were better support for like 256 or 16 color modes for CSS to better support TUIs. The reading UX is generally pretty good, but stuff like syntax highlighting really helps. …That is if website makers did their job correctly & treated JavaScript as an enhancement. The bigger issue is even in the case of limited JS support like Netsurf, most developers aren’t going to be writing ES3 or ES5-compatible code which is about all most of these systems can support which means the JS will be broken anyhow without keeping their engines up to date.
trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 2y
https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
This is more usable than browsh, in my experience, but has the very unfortunate downside of being based on Chromium (🤢)
x00z@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
The title should be "Google pulls plug out of Chromium"
Too bad that even when people start switching, people writing drafts for the W3 spec are mostly Google employees. I'm sure that'll be their next battleground.
dsilverz@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 1y
x00z@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Don't forget stupid DRM bullshit.
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-encrypted-media-2-20240718/
This was after Google bought WideVine in 2010.
chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Does this affect edge as well? Pushing out ublock via policy to both edge and chrome has saved me a lot of headaches at work, this is gonna be a pain in the dick.
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 2y
Yup, it affects all chromium browsers AFAIK
Petter1@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
In future news: Work efficiency drops dramatically because all workers have to fight with ads while researching solutions 😮
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y
Microsoft still hasn't made a stance. However, Edge isn't private and is an advertising platform.
Maybe figure out if you can do a very customized version of Firefox. I would take inspiration from Librewolf but keep in mind things will break if you start applying privacy patches.
Zicoxy3@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
the big companies, technological or not, always do the same thing... they launch a good product, very cheap (or free). When they already have a big market, they start cutting back. In the case of food, they raise prices, cut products, slightly change the taste... In the case of technology, they raise prices, cut the product, eliminate features....
That a company like Google, dedicated to data, has its own browser and pays to include it as standard in cell phones, it is clear that it is not going to stand still when an addon for its browser blocks part of its business...In this case, very few will switch browsers. That means changing habits. Already did with Google Photos.... . Tiene miles de millones de fotos y vídeos de menores, de fiestas, íntimas... Ofrece espacio gratuíto y después, le pagas por ello, porque tienes tu vida ahí.... Or with Google Maps. It's a great service, but it knows where you go, what for, your schedules... a brutal security problem...or with email.... it reads everything. Because otherwise it will add you to the calendar when you take a flight without having opened the confirmation email...
I've never stopped using Firefox. Google pays it too, but it's the only one that's independent. And then there's Waterfox, Librewolf, PaleMoon... Run away from Google... there are alternatives.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
istanbullu@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Are chromium derivatives like Brave affected?
TheNickOfTime@fedia.io · 16 pts · 2y
Sadly yes. Almost all, if not all derivates are affected since they inherit the codebase from it. Unless they implement manual Manifest v2 patches + have their own extension store they manage
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc · 4 pts · 2y
So that basically means that Firefox and Safari are the only two unaffected, since it seems like everything else is Chromium these days. Yikes.
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Vivaldi said they will keep V2 support. Not forever, but as long as they are able.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
So for a little bit until people stop caring.
Firefox is the correct play here.
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
I'm not saying what's "the correct play" or not, I'm refuting the claim all Chromium-based browsers are immediately affected, because I know of at least one that will keep V2 support.
But I will keep using Vivaldi. It will take me the same time to migrate to Firefox regardless if I do it today or a year from now when Vivaldi drops V2 support. I have nothing to gain by migrating sooner, but potentially much to gain by waiting.
TheNickOfTime@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
Not for everyone. For me it's unusable since I rely on stuff ff never implemented (using bluetooth from a web page to configure some of my home appliances, grab api keys for them, stuff like that). Also I'm not too thrilled that it laks any kind of official PWA or Chromecast support. Not to mention they still have some ugly bugs when rendering some gradients.
And besides this, I used to love everything Mozilla did, but at one point I grew to hate how they left ff to stagnate which made me switch.
I still reconsider it from time to time, but I always get disappointed by how little things have changed and how much even more things seem to be missing/buggy since the last time.
Frozzie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Yes, however Brave's built-in ad blocker is not
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
all chromium browsers are affected, so if a chromium browser wants to support manifest v2, they have to manually maintain it separately from the main chromium build. whether individual companies will do so ofc is tbd. braves built in browser probably not affe ted
XTL@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
Brave is a series scam company.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
Netscape Navigator is clearly superior to Internet Explorer. except that Andreessen guy became a Facebook bro. Shame nothing came of that. Oh well, guess I'll use Firefox.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
I’ve heard reasonably good reports about ublock origin lite (uBOL), the manifest V3 implementation. I haven’t made the jump yet, though.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 2y
Come to firefox or even better librewolf dont let google ass fuck you.
ivn@jlai.lu · 19 pts · 2y
It has some deal breaking limitations:
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
This is the bargaining stage of the five stages of grief.
Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Maybe. I’m on Firefox, but a lot of my family members are on Chrome and I’m not looking forward to the calls ;)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
It is never going to work the same. They are talking about dropping it entirely.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
I'm not sure if it's related, but I've been getting popups that prevent navigation away from pages on the Google Android browsers
shadycomposer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Why does it need to run remotely hosted code though?
dsilverz@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 1y
shadycomposer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Fair. Pulling rules makes sense. Code wouldn’t. (I wouldn’t consider regex as code.)
Thanks for the details.
dsilverz@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 1y
theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 2y
Lots of firefox mentions, no mention of Vivaldi tho...?
fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2y
Vivaldi is still chromium-based, which is also getting Manifest V2 support cut. And its default ad blocker sucks, if we're being honest.
theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
Oh fuck, looks like I gotta switch again...
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Vivaldi, Opera,
Safari, Edge. It's all Chromium.dutchkimble@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 2y
Really? I thought Safari wasnt chromium based
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Ah, you're right, apologies, it's WebKit! Edited my previous comment.
XTL@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 2y
No they don't. And can't. It's not their product.
Headlines these days. Are they all complete lies?
blusterydayve26@midwest.social · 9 pts · 2y
I’ll assume you’re being intentionally obtuse because no one could actually be that dumb.
rickdg@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y
Cat and mouse game, it’s better to DNS block ads.
pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io · 16 pts · 2y
DNS blocker will be as useful or maybe even less than ubo lite. E.g. it just cannot block youtube ads like ubo does.
Also Google and removed both bypass your DNS blocker. They use their own DNS server and DoH protocol to resolve their ad servers. DoH is also hard to block because it uses port 443 with https.
The best bet right now is to use either a DNS or even better: packet filter level blocker such as zenarmor; together with ublock origin on firefox. Nothing else will not really block tracking in 2024.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y
Or, here me out, don't use Chome