🚨🚨 BREAKING: Google Chrome to kill uBlock Origin for good 🚨🚨

[leeloo@c.im]

@elduvelle @t3rcermillenium @Vivaldi @alexadeswift @Tutanota
Vivaldi user Chromium and has stated that they do not have the manpower to maintain Manifest V2 support, so uBlock Origin will be history on Vivaldi as well.

However when Google announced the end of MV2, Vivaldi announced their built in adblocker.

[t3rcermillenium@mastodon.social]

@placebo @elduvelle @Vivaldi @alexadeswift @Tutanota I recently tried #vivaldibrowser. Very nice but I had the same experience with ads. For now, I’ll stick with #firefox

[fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in]

@Tutanota
Why does everyone forget Librewolf? Also, while at it, Betterbird in lieu of Thunderbird.

[jpvenant@piaille.fr]

@Tutanota

- 🥰️ Vivaldi
- 🥰️ Fulguris

- 🤮 Chrome
- 🤮 Edge
- 🤮 Safari

- 🫣 Mozilla
- 🫣 Brave
- 🫣 DuckDuckGo
- 🫣 Qwant
- 🫣 Opera

[lefreak@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota give Zen Browser a try, its firefox based and my personal favorite.

[latgal@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota looks like I'm only one here with Brave )

[dapper_11@mastodon.social]

@alexadeswift @Tutanota Yeah, I recently switched to @Vivaldi , its the best browser, I'd prefer a Gecko / Firefox base, but I'm sure they have their reasons.

[vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net]

@elduvelle @t3rcermillenium @alexadeswift @Tutanota we unfortunately don't have the manpower to maintain these once Chromium pulls the plug

[myrtlears@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota You can also use any MV3 blockers like uBlock Origin Lite, it works just as well from my experience.

[pouakai@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota
Well, DuckDuckGo desktop browsers aren't FOSS, neither support Linux nor uBO.
Puffin is proprietary too.
Pale moon has an old-schooled design and a buggy ad blocker (likely causing unique fingerprint), while IceCat shipping upgrade quite slowly (not ideal for security reason)

There are other FOSS, privacy-respecting (or protecting) browsers.
Only the only trustworthy browsers are the open source ones.
https://vocus.cc/article/6896b9befd897800014e562b

[weirdfoodie@thecanadian.social]

@Tutanota Firefox mostly, and Vivaldi now and then.

[pouakai@mastodon.social]

@Vash @t3rcermillenium @alexadeswift @Tutanota

but @brave still supports MV2, while even built ad blocker into its core.
So Google's Manifest V3 scam won't be a problem for it.

[bellpeep@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota I personally like zen, but all of the options you listed are pretty good.

[mjc0961@mastodon.social]

@placebo I had the same experience with Vivaldi. Claims to have a built in adblocker, but it let a lot of ads through, so I quickly stopped using it.

[mjc0961@mastodon.social]

@s10n I saw plenty of ads on Vivaldi even with pihole helping it out. Pihole can't block self-hosted ads, and the Vivaldi ad blocker isn't fit for purpose.

[ellie@ellieayla.net]

@Tutanota Safari.

[kleinfreund@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Please include a source if you're gonna lead with a "BREAKING:" line like that ._.

[weirdfoodie@thecanadian.social]

@fbinin @Tutanota Betterbird has been doing things quite well here.

[ivolimmen@toot.community]

@Tutanota I'm using water for some time now and it works just fine. Getting an obscure browser to work perfectly under Linux does require some tinkering.

[vp9kf@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Why isn't Vivaldi on your list?