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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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What's to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?
Cromite's only flaw (IMO) is that it based it's built in adblocker on AdBlock instead of Ublock.
I've tried moving to Firefox and I don't know, it just feels ugh to me. (scientific critique, I know...). It's just something I can't put my finger on; Firefox just doesn't feel performative. whether that's a frame-buffer animation thing, or icon shadows, or something else entirely, it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.
Visibility.
See: Helium Browser. Which is already doing this, and shipping full UBO, yet most aren’t aware of it.
Also see: this comment is minimized by default, and most of Lemmy will never know the answer to OP's question already exists. There are probably other forks that do this, too.
It's a lot of work, mostly. And how many of those V2 extensions are going to continue to provide patches anyway.
Maybe it's the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.
Well that would certainly explain my irrational fear of foxes.
Not just extensions but websites as well.
Performative is not the word you intended, but may be apt.
I've heard this from others but don't see meaningful difference myself
Yeah. I don't know how to describe it. It's ineffable in that respect. Things like scrolling, etc... just feel a touch off in ways that are difficult to put words to. Not enough to be consciously noticeable; just enough to creep out the lizard-part of your brain that just knows when something doesn't feel right.
"Performant" means it performs well. Performative means they're doing something as a performance rather than for substance, doing something just as a show, like Trump reading Bible quotes