Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge,...
  • usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zipEnglish
    35·
    1 month ago

    Chrome messing with my uBlock Origin extension, disabling it and uninstalling it when all this started, was the last straw. I promptly made the jump to Floorp/Firefox and even though I was scared for a long time to switch, it was all good and have zero regrets. I’m very happy I ditched Chrome.

    • Klear@piefed.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 month ago

      I held out until the first ad got through adblock (about a year ago, I think?). Switched the same day. Should have done it a lot sooner. I thought it would be a whole thing, but I was set up i a few minutes.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      I was scared for a long time to switch

      But … why?

      I’m honestly asking here. What’s so scary about using a different browser? I’ve got (let me count…) at least 6 different browsers installed on my current machine, switching between them for different tasks each of them is better at.

      It’s not like switching from Windows to Linux, where you actually have to say goodbye to Windows (maybe) in order to make the switch. You can easily install Chrome and Firefox, using whichever one suits you at the moment. So what’s so scary about switching?

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    29·
    1 month ago

    This teaches us that being open source is not enough. If it’s managed by big tech, it’s still not good. Technically, anyone can take the source and make a fork, but in practice, it’s rarely viable for smaller groups to take a big project and start maintaining it. The same applies to android

  • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
    18·
    1 month ago

    google did play this long game pretty well… get mozilla on-board with webextensions format. get microsoft to adopt chromium for its own browser. use every trick in the book, legal or not, to gain marketshare. then start the rug pull. first: neuter the adblockers (we are here), next (and there will be a ‘next’) will be killing ad or content blockers and manipulators completely.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      I think next step would be forcing chromium-only web development so FF or any other own-engine browser would not work properly on most common sites. That’ll kill other browsers in an instant.

      It kind of works already, seeing that a few complain about FF not working properly on some sites. Also, FF cant catch up with some features GC has like HID support. Anything which is not chromium is way behind and cant catch up. We are in a desperate need of something that is really good and is 3rd party (preferably OSS) to counter browser market monopoly. It is not monopoly yet, but damn it is on the edge.

      • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        Yeah, people call me stupid, but I have been complaining for a while about Google using its market power to bully standards that only benefit itself.

        The one I got flac a lot for was the https thing. Like yes, https is good, but it also ads an often unneeded layer of complexity for small time web stuff. It also makes it slight a pain for local stuff since you can’t https an IP, it needs a domain.

        On top of that, it harms one of Google’s main ad/tracking xompetitors, ISPs. Now, we can debate if tracking is good or not (its really not), but beside that point, Google has a zillion other ways to track you, ISPs, less so, they are not embedding tracking pixels and shit or backdooring your browser history. And Google gets to kneecap them by penalising anyone not using https.

        They tried to do the same thing to other competition by pushing to kill cookies, but backed off. Once again, is tracking good or bad? Not the debate here. But Google tracks you other ways, many of their competitors in the ad space use cookies. Or track traffix on their networks (ISPs).

        Tracking good or bad is debatable, but lack of competition in pretty much anyspace is bad.

        • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          You can flash a firmware of your phone though google chrome if you want. GrapheneOS even suggests to do it this way.

          You can visit controller test websites and check your controllers.

          Not sure about this one but technically you can play games through game streaming services in your browser. No additional software needed.

          HID API is a cool feature ngl. But I still use FF only.

            • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              I prefer a WebUI configuration app for mice, controllers, and other devices with firmware-level settings to installed crapware that only runs on Windows (and poorly). I use Ungoogled Chromium exclusively for the HID webapps. It’s a neat part of the “web app framework” side of the modern browser that is almost totally irrelevant to the “browser” side.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      See what they don’t understand is that I, and many people like me, hate watching ads more than anything, and can, and will, stop using the entire Internet if it’s all just ads. YouTube is already so shitty that it’s basically already there, and I stopped paying for it and because it’s so shitty now, hardly watch YouTube, trending quickly to zero.

      Congratulations, Google. You’re ruining everything.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    I will take “Things I don’t have to care about since I ditched Chrome over two years ago.” for $900 Alex.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      Bro. Have you seen browser marketshare graphs from recent years? It is dominated by chrome and chromium-based browsers. HELL OF A LOT of people use chrome in 2026 and it wont slow down any time soon.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      This one damn bank website does not open right in Firefox. I had a good quarter of my clients at that bank.

      • Meruten@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        Thats why I leave Edge installed by default in Windows. You need a chromium brower from time to time, why not just use the one provided?

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          Because sometimes the wedgie doesn’t work too. I have (and use in the following priority) Firefox, opera, chrome, and edge. I kind of want to install Netscape for fun, but I cheaped on my hdd

          • lyrial@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Around 2020 I installed the last released version of Netscape out of boredom. Don’t do it. It is an insecure nightmare of bloat that doesn’t really work anymore.

    • trevor (any/all) @lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      31·
      1 month ago

      They do, but it should also be noted that Google’s implementation of MV3 was specifically designed to target adblocking and we know this because Firefox’s implementation of MV3 still enables full adblocking capabilities. So even if Firefox does away with MV2 entirely, uBlockOrigin can work with their MV3.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      1 month ago

      it supports it and the dev for ubo has outright had benchmarks that ubo blocks more stuff on gecko engine based browsers vs chromium based browsers even during manifest v2 era.

    • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      Dude, Chrome has 73% of market share worldwide. 3 out of every 4 people are using Chrome. Sad to say: a lot.

      Source

      • qqq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Ugh why is time on that bar graph decreasing as you move to the right?

      • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I’d be fine if Firefox had slightly higher market share but selfishly I confess I’m happy being in the small minority who block ads.

        If blocking ads was majority behaviour, corporations would fight against it way harder than they do today.

  • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    I will say that the best thing about having an OS install on an unsupported machine is that Chrome and even Chromium Legacy (buggy as fuck) no longer work with a damn.

    Not that I ever used the browser in any real way, but oh, it’s nice not to have to fret over this MV2 horseshit… (laughs in firefox dynasty…)

  • JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    Will this play into the chrome spinoffs like brave? I know the opinions of brave are strong here, and I don’t care. I can change settings to eliminate their bullshit. i have to admit that the add blocking in brave is pretty damn good and is a big reason I have stuck with them.

    • aol@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      i think yes many users will switch to brave once they see chrome cant block ads as good anymore