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Fennec 132.0.0 is out and so up to date in c/firefox@fedia.io
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is fine and all if you have some low-end device without gapps, but... run Firefox Nightly. 😉

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Here's why I'll never go back to using Google Chrome (www.androidauthority.com)
 

Google Chrome may be a mainstay on Android smartphones, but thanks to its flaws, it's not my default browser and never will be.

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch in c/firefox@fedia.io
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

They likely need a monetization model in order to pay developers.

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

And then later I learned it was a cooperative effort, just not under the same name

Source?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They developed the "privacy sandbox" together.

Yeah that's not true.

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The (pre)history of Mozilla’s localization repository infrastructure (www.yetanothertechblog.com)
YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You have to remember that sometimes when that shiny new CSS feature comes out, it is underspecced, with unhandled corner cases -- "just do what Chromium does" is not a standard -- or is it? Having multiple implementations of a spec prove that it is interoperable - without that, you might have a good spec, or you might have a spec that says "whatever Chrome does is what is expected". Not sure that is what we want from new CSS (or any) features.

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

There is nothing about MV3 that stops you from improving things.

What about this stuff?

YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably simpler to just "Forget" the site from the site's context menu in the history sidebar.

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] yoasif@fedia.io -1 points 3 weeks ago

"Vivaldi is closed source, therefore it's harder for users to investigate", which is clearly an inaccurate statement.

Why is it an inaccurate statement?

What user are you thinking of?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] yoasif@fedia.io -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You really felt misled that it was harder to inspect? What makes you think I have the expertise to inspect this? I'm not even a user and I wouldn't know where to start to find the ad blocker within that tarball. Would you?

In any case, I clarified why it was harder to inspect - to me it felt obvious that being closed source made it harder to investigate. The fact that it is also shared source really has no bearing to the general observation, especially since we're talking about a 2GB tarball where I don't even know where to start. And I'm a pretty technical person.

How would a user easily investigate this vs. an open source browser?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] yoasif@fedia.io -3 points 3 weeks ago

It is, it is just source available. Still closed source.

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

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

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

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

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

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

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

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

We’ve been anticipating it for years, and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.

Now that it is finally happening, many seem to be oddly resigned to the idea that Google is taking away the best and most powerful ad content blocker available on any web browser today, with one article recommending people set up a DNS based content blocker on their network 😒 – instead of more obvious solutions.

I may not have blogged about this but I recently read an article from 1999 about why Gopher lost out to the Web, where Christopher Lee discusses the importance of the then-novel term “mind share” and how it played an important part in dictating why the web won out. In my last post, I touched on the importance of good information to democracies – the same applies to markets (including the browser market) – and it seems to me that we aren’t getting good information about this topic.

This post is me trying to give you that information, to help increase the mind share of an actual alternative. Enjoy!

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

Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.

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How I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla (glandium.org)
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Protecting Your Privacy While Eroding Your Democracy: Apple's and Mozilla's PPAs (Privacy Preserving Ad Attribution) Considered Harmful (www.quippd.com)
 

These browser vendors have produced browser-based PPA (Privacy-Preserving [Ad] Attribution) technologies that attempt to establish a world where “advertising online happens in a way that respects all of us, and where commercial and public interests are in balance”.1 Unfortunately, after studying each proposal, I predict they will inadvertently lend themselves to further incentivize the publication and spread of low-quality information (including misinformation), polluting the information landscape and threatening democracies worldwide.

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