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

[fakepivot@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota i would love to switch to firefox, but there is a extension i use in vivaldi or other chromium which is important to me called "Hand Tool" its lets me scroll like a photoshop document holding spacebar or say scrolling on phone type feel coz i use wacom tablet, i can't find as good a extension in Firefox sadly does anyone know such thing in Firefox let me know

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@Tutanota

LibreWolf on Windows and Linux.

IronFox on Android.

[numerfolt@kirche.social]

@ftranschel @Tutanota To be honest, it took me a day to figure out that Librewolf is configured to delete all website data on close

But no other problems so far

[numerfolt@kirche.social]

@vp9kf Vivaldi is based on chromium, just like Google Chrome. So they won't be able to support uBlock Origin either

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@Tutanota

Brave ain't it. They should not be recommended.

Why I recommend against Brave

If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it's even listed on

LibreNews (thelibre.news)

[numerfolt@kirche.social]

@Fakepivot Hmm, does this work?
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/drag-scroll/

[hurt138@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota another vote for Librewolf

[numerfolt@kirche.social]

@Fakepivot hmm, some more, that are similar, but not the exact same

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/scroll_anywhere/
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/gds-grab-drag-scroller/
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/grab-scroll/

[ts71@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Brave Browser

[datapaul@union.place]

@Tutanota Firefox!

[stoneware945@mastodon.social]

This is obviously LLM generated SEO slop. "Their privacy Shield combines features you can only get on Firefox by adding certain extensions like NoScript and HTTPSEverywhere." HTTPS Everywhere was sunsetted in 2023 and every browser since 2021 has a https everywhere function natively. There's also nothing new about MV2 and uBlock here, it's just clickbait. Very dissapointing!

[lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town]

@Tutanota LibreWolf

[seachaint@masto.hackers.town]

@cypnk @Tutanota I've been usind and enjoying Waterfox. On my distros it's only available as a flatpak, which complicates a few things, but not by much (and probably worth the isolation). It's very much "Firefox sans BS" but I'd be happy to see them and other "forks" just wholesale abandoning FF as a base and establishing their own "core".

[ellick_taiwan@g0v.social]

@Tutanota Mozilla Firefox

[draken@masto.nyc]

@lambdacalculus @Tutanota
Desktop: Librewolf. Ungoogled Chromium if I need a Chrome-like browser.
Mobile: Ironfox, Cromite or Vivaldi if I need a Chrome-like browser.

[stoneware945@mastodon.social]

and why in gods name would you put puffin on the list. it's literally browsing but in the cloud, there's zero reason to mention it on a privacy / security focused list

[scottytrees@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Just use Firefox people, it's not that complicated.

[xnhq@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota I use Waterfox and Librewolf

[pgiulan@federate.social]

@Tutanota interesting exclusion

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Tutanota I can't take these recommendations seriously, they include Brave.

For the uninitiated, https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/