Just a reminder that Google is planning on going forward with the removal of the blocking version of the WebRequest API in the upcoming Manifest v3. This effectively kills adblockers on Google Chrome going forward. Manifest v3 adblocking extensions will be so neutered as to be ineffective.
>I use Firefox Firefox will likely switch to Manifest v3 as well.
>I'll just use X fork of Chrome or Firefox These too will adopt Manifest v3, otherwise it will become impractical to include that latest features and bug fixes.
>being this retarded on purpose Go back to LinusTechTips.
Aiden Gonzalez
What browsers will weather the adblockpocalypse?
Ethan Parker
Malvertising is one of the biggest problems with the modern Web. Disabling JavaScript breaks a lot of core functionality on most sites now. Ad blocking gives you the most protection for the least amount of hassle.
Michael Rodriguez
none, that's the point.
Cameron Gray
Certainly not anything chromium based. I'm hoping firefox doesn't give in but it seems their ass is in google's hands, so. Worst case scenario only firefox forks and possibly some hipster browsers will survive.
Adam Ramirez
Every Linux distro does this and gets away with it perfectly fine, I think you're full of shit. Debian doesn't even do this anymore, now they just have normal Firefox in the repos.
Nathan Nguyen
then just use pi-hole nerd
Juan Perez
idgaf. noscript or no browser.
Andrew Allen
Is it time to take the Midoripill?
Jace Roberts
What the fuck are you talking about? Firefox and Chromium are open source. You're thinking of Opera.
Brandon Baker
Because they had to get permission.
Justin Diaz
Midori's ad blocker sucks and you can't install any others.
Michael Martin
>Firefox will likely switch to Manifest v3 as well. Sauce?
Jaxon Fisher
Pale Moon will never have Web Extensions or Manifest V3 so you can shove this thread up your ass, OP.
If Firefox adopts it then Pale Moon will either adopt it as well, or it will eventually not be able to incorporate patches from Firefox. So shove THAT up your ass.
Jacob Jackson
Pale Moon has NOTHING to do with Firefox past version 60. Learn what a hard fork means, then hang yourself.
Ayden Green
>Pale Moon has already hard forked
OK then faggot. If it hasn't already stopped receiving new features and bug fixes from Firefox then it soon will. Enjoy your shit browser.
Jace Turner
A Chad.
Jaxson Lewis
>will stop receiving new features and bug fixes Got any proof there, kike?
Ryder Martinez
You want me to provide you with proof that as two code bases drift apart patches become incompatible? Is that what you are asking me?
Logan Stewart
>you need the pajeets at mozilla and google to maintain a browser product I wonder (((who))) could be behind this post.
Ethan Davis
Modern browsers are more complicated than most operating systems. Some faggot ass like you isn't going to maintain and upgrade one.
Christian Price
>Modern browsers are more complicated than most operating systems. You're fucking retarded.
Palemoon's main dev is a furry sperglord with superiority complex. I wouldn't trust my shit on him.
Dylan James
Only Jow Forumstards will choose a Google/Mozilla controlled browser (companies they actively hate for censoring muh free speech and being le ebin trannies) just because they think furries are icky. Enjoy your forced ads, telemetry, NSA spying and no customization.
iirc Mozilla were the ones who reached out to Debian and gave them a license/permission to do their own Fx branded builds, along a few other major distros like Ubuntu
Owen Lee
I'm ready to be done with the plebnet entirely. Something like this might actually finally force me to.
Austin Green
absolutely dumbass reply
Luis Young
I'm on chromium on Debian, trannerfox sucks it overheats cpu. Adblocking done via DNS, so I'd say this is irrelevant for now.
Pale Moon, Basilisk and Borealis are on the UXP platform and thus are exempt from big tech's latest push against ad blockers and user choice. Other browsers are either dead or have Google/Mozilla upstream.
Charles Howard
Microsoft Edge will save us from Google's monopoly.
Samuel Hernandez
Host blocking is very inefficient and easily thwarted. We need browser level control.
Leo Butler
Nah man, the based beautiful GNUnet/Guix/Hurd future is coming. Step up.
OpenBSD, F-Droid and Adnauseam's controversies with Pale Moon have proven that the developer is an idiot who tantrums when things are not done exactly his way and that he is not to be trusted.
Caleb Myers
Care to explain why?
Liam Butler
can you just use an outdated version of firefox?
in the case of course that they give in
Gavin Cooper
Looks like I'll be using OtterBrowser from now on.
Andrew Ward
You're putting the load of domain lookups and filtering on your network instead of the workstations. It's much cheaper to have the browser go through the tens of thousands of rules than your end router/firewall for every client. Basically, it doesn't scale well unless you have lots of cash.
Also, Google can serve ads through their own domains alongside their legitimate scripts, so blocking hosts can potentially break entire sites. Host blocking has no cosmetic filtering capability whatsoever, either.
Anthony Jackson
Why would Firefox start using Chrome's API? Seems a bit far-fetched.
Bentley Wright
Where have you been the past 2 years? Mozilla literally deleted all their extensions and only accept Chrome ones now.
Nicholas Young
OP's ass.
Connor Murphy
In a world without adblocking, the one that allows it will reign supreme.
Sebastian Price
It's weird but Linux host files are faster than chromium lookups.
Adam Barnes
use their DNS on your router
Adrian Cooper
I mean it is pretty much the most likely outcome. Firefox uses Chrome addon technology now, and Mozilla gets hundreds of millions of dollars from Google in search engine deals. Either way, when Manifest V3 arrives in Chrome the addons will have to adapt. If Firefox doesn't keep close parity with Google's changes, then what was the point of adopting WebExtensions in the first place?
Do you think if Mozilla tried to preserve ad blockers (which is harming Google's adsense business), Google would still be enthusiastic about giving them money?
How hard is it to make a web browser? Why don't Jow Forumsfags make one. I thought you faggots were autistic geniuses.
Wyatt Brown
javascript
Eli Wood
Someone should the firecucks about this and get their official statement.
Nolan Cruz
yo, is there anything I can do about Jow Forums X loading so slowly on FF? It works great on Chrome and even Safari, but in FF with Violetmonkey it's slow af.
Nicholas Bell
This is why I use a hosts file to block ads, way better than adblocker extensions
Charles Howard
I'll make the logo!
Cameron Flores
Don't have to reinvent the wheel. Learn Mozilla's codebase (before they went and got cucked), make a pull request on UXP and improve that engine. Only if you know C++, JS and XUL. No Rust pajeets.
Zachary Hernandez
It's not as simple as wget | browser You have to comply with a million false standards and DRM
Xavier Cox
HTML is extremely bloated and embedding a horrible scripting language in your program is difficult as well
Brayden Rivera
Just edit the fucking host file in your system. (Only for Linux and Android)
Gabriel Martinez
What about brave? Will it suffer the same fate since it's Chromium based? I was planning to switch to that, or maybe even Safari
>using a browser with no timely security updates you'd rather have this than a few ads?
Chase Nelson
Brave's CEO claims that they'll unblock the API in Brave, but if Google decides to completely remove the API Brave and all other Chromium forks will be fucked. And Brave is shit that replaces Google's botnet with a botnet of their own.
Bentley Morgan
What security updates has Pale Moon missed for any notable period of time? Hard mode: no bringing up irrelevant shit that doesn't apply to the palemoon codebase like all the web extension vulnerabilities firefox has (LOL)
Jacob Miller
We're in an age where my 58 year old mum knows almost nothing about browsers, except that she will use the one that doesn't push ads into her face. Even if Firefox caves in, some sperglord somewhere will make a browser that supports blocking ads, and then millions of sons and daughters will install that browser, however shitty it may be, on their parents' cheap notebooks. "Yeah mum, I needed to change the internet icon so it doesn't show ads"
Google is completely mistaking how much their brand actually matters.
Gabriel Diaz
>>I'll just use X fork of Chrome or Firefox > These too will adopt Manifest v3, otherwise it will become impractical to include that latest features and bug fixes. Idiot, UnGoogled chromium will undo this shit.
>Firefox will likely switch to Manifest v3 as well. No, it won't stop spreading FUD.