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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 9 months ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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 ...

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[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Vivaldi is including its own adblock outside of the manifest system that uses many of the same blocklists that uBlock does (although at this point you have to add them manually) and hopes to get near the same functionality by the time it is pulled and Mv3 is implemented. They originally had plans to offer a Mv2 compliant area but after seeing how Mv3 was going to be implemented, they changed there plans to many users dismay.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think many people use Vivaldi. Also it is mostly proprietary so that's a hard pass for me.

[–] theorangeninja@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Only the UI part is not open source.

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's the point of keeping part of the UI closed source?

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[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Brave itself is filled with ads. Crypto wallets, BAT, VPNs. I just want a browser.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

But how else will Brandon Eich fund his homophobia and covid conspiracies?

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[–] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Well that is because Brave has been doing it longer, and Vivaldi only has about 30 devs across all the platforms, which is a fraction of Brave, although Brave has its issues as well, just not in the adblock department. I have found that if you use the uBlock block lists it is most of the way there, but it is not ready yet and I think that Vivaldi will have to consider picking up some dedicated devs. Also it is a 'Vivaldi Thing' to launch things piece mail and get those pieces working fully before adding on the rest of it. Then over time it gets good. But Vivaldi has come a LONG way when it comes to aggressive adblock detection.

That being said right now YouTube is detecting it and it is dumping the most manpower and money into this. When it does work you can pretty much use it across the web and the few cases that it doesn't work usually OK just to pause it for a while and you won't get too many ads.

However if Mv3 comes out and they haven't gotten their act together I am going to Firefox or Brave, as much as I don't like how they do business. Then there will be the Google Search thing running through the courts and we will see how Fx and Br come out and change their model.