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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 2 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Define "lower efficiency", please.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

only ads on big sites or ads by big providers are blocked. cookie prompts and other annoyances much less, because there is a great variety of them. data mining and hardware fingerprinting cannot even be thwarted anymore.

sure, if you only care about ads, but not at all about your privacy, it does not mean much to you. personally I would rather see ads (topic based) than give up my privacy, and the complete uBlock Origin is very useful for privacy too.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

only ads on big sites or ads by big providers are blocked

This is false.

cookie prompts

Not part of any adblocker. Some, like Ghostery, have a separate mechanism to auto-reject these. I switched from uBO to Ghostery because uBO wasn't doing anything against those.

data mining and hardware fingerprinting cannot even be thwarted anymore.

That's not an adblock feature and there are hundreds of other extensions that handle that, like PrivacyBadger. Ghostery says it also handles trackers, but I haven't verified that.

I would rather see ads (topic based) than give up my privacy, and the complete uBlock Origin is very useful for privacy too.

Look up tools made specifically for it, then. Also: privacy related stuff is not affected by Manifest v3, no?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Not part of any adblocker. Some, like Ghostery, have a separate mechanism to auto-reject these. I switched from uBO to Ghostery because uBO wasn't doing anything against those.

this is false. and instead of just claiming so, here is proof: there are built-in (but disabled by default) blocklists specialized for cookie prompts and such

That's not an adblock feature

and as I said, uBO is not just an ad blocker, so saying xy ad blocker can replace it well is false.

and there are hundreds of other extensions that handle that, like PrivacyBadger

except that not really. Because again, the required browser APIs were removed, and even before that, privacy badger was not so effective

Also: privacy related stuff is not affected by Manifest v3, no?

everything is effected that:

needs to block network requests, including loading of certain site scripts
depends on an up to date list of things to block

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now I'm curious how anyone could possibly have a non obvious definition of ad blocker efficiency.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

Well, considering I'm using a different adblock and I just... Do not see any ads on the web, how do you measure the efficiency of uBlock to be better? Resource consumption?