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

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[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo—the two other major non-Chromium browsers out there—support uBlock Origin.

DDG's browser is using webview, meaning it uses chrome on Windows/Android. Also not what I would consider a major browser.

Even if Firefox drops support, it's doubtful that many of its major forks will drop support.

For those who want to use something other than a Firefox fork, there are some options.

Brave has built in ad blocking, but you need to disable a lot of their crap. There are scripts out there that can do it quickly.
Helium is in beta, but it bundles uBO.
Orion is currently only available for macOS, but it has a beta for for Linux available. It can install extensions from both Chrome and Firefox.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Brave’s founder and CEO is a bigot who spends his money lobbying for his abhorrent views. Don’t support that piece of shit.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why would firefox drop UBO support?

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

If they adopt Manifest v3 exclusively for addons like Chrome. Or if Chromium uses its monopolistic advantage to dictate additional browser standards that undermine the functionality of UBO, which could potentially result in Firefox becoming unable to view certain websites if they don't adopt them.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Brave Origin on Linux is free, it's the one that has the extra garbage ripped out. I don't like braves practices but as a security person I really do admire how Brave Shields functions. Graphene said they were interested in lifting shields off of brave to put in vanadium but it currently wasn't a top priority.