techspot Google is purging uBlock from the Chrome Web Store

[UltraMega]

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After years of delaying the adoption of Manifest V3, Google is now moving forward and accelerating the process. Soon, users will have to choose between accepting Chrome's inferior ad-blocking technology or switching to a different browser.

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I have been using Edge for years now. Since it's chromium based, I see no reason to use chrome instead. Edge works perfectly fine. Edge Canary on mobile can support any extensions the desktop version can now, in developer mode.

[GanjaSMK]

I too have been using Edge. Not stoked on any web browser much any more than any others; but Edge without fuss and a few extensions has been pleasant, at the least. 

[Sir Beregond]

I'm looking for a new browser. Not big on Edge or Firefox to be honest, but when looking at most of the options you quickly find they are all Chromium.

 

[Snakecharmed]

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Some third-party Chromium-based browsers, such as Opera and Vivaldi, have stated that they have no plans to drop support for Manifest V2, although maintaining the older technology may become difficult or impossible over time.

Meanwhile, Mozilla Firefox – according to uBlock devs – continues to offer the best ad-blocking experience and will support Manifest V2 for the foreseeable future.

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As a Waterfox, Vivaldi, and Brave user, good. Chrome sucks in general and the web is unusable without uBO.

[Snakecharmed]

  On 15/10/2024 at 17:26, Sir Beregond said:

I'm looking for a new browser. Not big on Edge or Firefox to be honest, but when looking at most of the options you quickly find they are all Chromium.

 

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What is it that you're looking for in a browser? Most Chromium-based browsers really only fundamentally share the Blink rendering engine which is necessary because the web has begun to turn back toward browser-specific coding like the Internet Explorer days.

 

Beyond that, the browser will leverage the extensions/add-ons ecosystem of either Chrome or Firefox. I daily drive Waterfox (heavily customized with userChrome customizations) and Vivaldi, and using either is nothing like stock Firefox and Chrome respectively.

[Barefooter]

I've been using the Brave browser for several years.  I really like it and it automatically blocks most ads and trackers.

[Sir Beregond]

  On 15/10/2024 at 17:39, Snakecharmed said:

 

What is it that you're looking for in a browser? Most Chromium-based browsers really only fundamentally share the Blink rendering engine which is necessary because the web has begun to turn back toward browser-specific coding like the Internet Explorer days.

 

Beyond that, the browser will leverage the extensions/add-ons ecosystem of either Chrome or Firefox. I daily drive Waterfox (heavily customized with userChrome customizations) and Vivaldi, and using either is nothing like stock Firefox and Chrome respectively.

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Mainly just want something lightweight that doesn't lag or run slowly or suck down RAM. And ad blocking would be nice.

[Snakecharmed]

For ad blocking, I've found uBlock Origin to be better than any browser's built-in blocker.

 

On the Gecko (Firefox) side, I've read good things about Floorp for UI customization and Zen for being the most lightweight (with the caveat that it strictly uses vertical tabs). I might give Floorp a spin to potentially replace Waterfox. Librewolf is the most popular privacy-oriented Firefox fork and it also comes with uBlock Origin built-in. However, all the other privacy-conscious features in Librewolf may cause some websites to break.

 

I tried Basilisk and Pale Moon a few years ago, and I had issues with both of them missing some functionality that I couldn't use either as a primary browser, but maybe that's changed. What I also remember is that their rendering engine was forked from Gecko so they were more prone to CSS rendering quirks on select websites.

 

On the Chromium side, Vivaldi was refactored last year to run much faster and as someone who has been using it since before the refactor, it's a noticeable improvement. It's the fastest of my three browsers now. However, it's also feature-rich in terms of UI customization options. You don't have to configure any of it, but there's a lot you can customize in terms of tab positioning, tab grouping, tab tiling (split screen view), sidebars, etc.

 

I've also used Brave for a few years now, and while it was a big improvement over Chrome on my work laptop at my previous job, it's never been more than a private browsing tool for my personal use, and it's slower than it used to be. Combined with the loading speed enhancements to Vivaldi, Brave got pushed back to third place in my pecking order. It seems that all they keep doing for feature updates is enhancing their crypto wallet/token features.

 

Even though it's by all means a more decent product than Chrome these days, I've never taken Edge seriously because as a former web designer, I'm still salty about Internet Explorer's reign of terror on the web and don't care for Microsoft's business practices around their browsers in general.

 

Finally, I tried Opera a few years ago before I settled on Vivaldi as my Chromium-based browser. It wasn't anything remarkable. I didn't know at the time that the team that was responsible for the old pre-Chromium Opera moved to Vivaldi.

Edited October 16, 2024 by Snakecharmed