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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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So many people asked “Why not Opera?” When I jumped off the AI browsers.
This. This is why. Didn’t trust em.
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Whether you use Firefox or Librewolf you are entirely dependent on the hundreds of full timer developers Mozilla’s got working on the Gecko codebase.
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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.
What’s to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?
It's a lot of work, mostly. And how many of those V2 extensions are going to continue to provide patches anyway.
it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.
Maybe it's the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.
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Performative is not the word you intended, but may be apt.
I've heard this from others but don't see meaningful difference myself
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Man up and take your spyware like an obedient peasant
Great.. I work in IT so this means MORE "virus" calls because you 100000000% need an adblocker on the web to stop those fake "your computer is being hacked" malicious advertisements from websites.
Time to polish those presentation skills and deliver a memo to your company, extolling the virtues of Firefox as a company-wide browser instead of the now malware inducing Chrome, Opera, and Edge.
Wont happen. Security teams will block it still. Firefox blocks deep packet inspection which corporate security suites use for monitoring. Its the reason chrome is the default now in almost all companies.
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The enshittification is going on overdrive I see...
The browser wars have been kind of strange from the perspective of someone who's been using Firefox for well over a decade. It's a bit like hearing about the Civil War while living in Oregon.
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Has anyone notice safari letting youtube ads through on iOS recently? (I also use AdGuard DNS on my phone, so I guess that's stopped working too)
AdGuard DNS
a DNS AdBlocker just stop a request to a specific domain. If youtube serves video and ads from the same server you do not know which one is an ads and which one is a video on the DNS level. Furthermore you have some devices hardcoding DNS server (google homes are common for calling google DNS directly instead of getting the DNS from the Router) which makes it very hard to use DNS level AdBlockers.
Google spends a lot of money mixing ads and legit content to make it impossible to block, it is not safari "letting ads through" is more like safari cannot identify ads anymore.
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The ad games is always one of whack-a-mole; companies like Google have it in their best interest to find ways to get around ad blockers. The ad block developers then find newer ways to block ads, and the cycle continues.
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