Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.
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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • echo@lemmings.world
    3·
    2 months ago
    • It’s not super simple to setup multiple, completely separate profiles like it is in Chrome
    • I never, ever visit google.com while I do visit gmail.com at least daily. Yet, when I type ‘g’ the suggestion is always google.com
    • I visit m.fark.com on my phone quite frequently. Firefox on my phone randomly decides I want to do a google search for ‘m.fark.com’ instead of visit the site
    • I don’t want the recently closed tabs to be tracked and listed, yet there is no way to turn that off
    • If the menu bar is displayed the the first browser tab is left aligned. If the menu bar is turned off then the first browser tab is indented for no obvious reason.
    • I don’t think I can clear my history without it closing all of my Firefox instances and making me reopen everything.

    There’s no one thing that is a show-stopper… just little annoyances.

    It’s not firefox’s fault, but I still use music.youtube.com and google hangouts and there’s no option to treat them like standalone apps like there is with chrome.

    • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
      3·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think I can clear my history without it closing all of my Firefox instances and making me reopen everything.

      That’s not true - are you using always private mode?

      • echo@lemmings.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        No, I’m using the ‘Forget about some browsing history’ button. You can selectively remove some entries just from history, but that still leaves them in your recent tabs list. If you just want the last 5 minutes of browsing gone then you have to do the rewind and that closes all tabs/instances.

        • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
          2·
          2 months ago

          Why not just open private browsing windows if you don’t want your browser remembering those pages? Are you deciding afterwards that you want to forget those pages?

          • echo@lemmings.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            Are you deciding afterwards that you want to forget those pages?

            Frequently, yes… There’s also some pages/content on sites where you have to be logged in. Yeah, you could go private and login, but that’s just more steps. I just want to hit a button and have it nuke the last 5 minutes of my browsing without closing my current tabs/browsers.

            • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
              21·
              2 months ago

              Not trying to be obtuse here, but why are you pruning your history in the first place? Is someone auditing your browsing history? I’m personally not interested in removing my browser history for the most part - and certainly not frequently enough to notice this limitation.

              • echo@lemmings.world
                1·
                2 months ago

                It’s mostly from clicking links on Lemmy… sometimes the content isn’t what I would expect or there isn’t enough information to even have an expectation before clicking. After clicking there are sometimes things that pop up that I don’t want in my history. Another common use case is that a new porn site will pop up in the Lemmy feed and I don’t want to see it. In order to block it I have to visit the page. So after I block the page I clear my history.

                • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Probably simpler to just “Forget” the site from the site’s context menu in the history sidebar.

                  • echo@lemmings.world
                    1·
                    2 months ago

                    Hmmm… maybe. It would still be easier to just forget the past five minutes without actually closing whatever I have open in the browser. I also still wish I could just tell it to not track closed tabs at all.