As they note in the article, this is a temporary measure, I.E. guaranteed to break soon.
Start switching to Firefox now so you’re done when they finally turn it of. Ignore any other Chromium based browsers, it’s unlikely they have the manpower to extend MV2 beyond what Google supports with their LTS releases.
Firefox on iOS doesn’t offer any ad blocking. Vivaldi (and several other) Chromium browsers do. So for a good chunk of the mobile community, Firefox is not the best option.
Apple limits mobile browsers a shit ton. When you get Firefox on iOS, you don’t get Firefox, you get what’s basically a safari front end. This is the reason you can install uBlock Origin or other extensions on the android version of Firefox, but be unable on the iOS version.
you can enable ublock in chrome by downloading firefox from chrome, installing it, then installing ublock in firefox and finally removing chrome
Just user Firefox lol
Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.
Just fucking switch
People will do anything, but use Firefox
I don’t think that comma belongs there
, Yeah I don’t, think so either,.
they were just making a statement and then also mentioning to use firefox
Ubo has a video in the reddit sub on how to do it.
Yeah all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages to enable Manifest 2, all in 8 easy steps (written as if it’s 6 steps to make it seem less onerous). For now. Until Google switches it off completely.
Or, drop Chrome and Chromium based browsers (such as Edge, Vivaldi, Brave etc) in one easy step. Install a privacy respecting Firefox based browser like Firefox itself or Librewolf.
Why jump through all these hoops, and lessen the security of your browser in the process, just to do something that is being fully stripped out soon anyway?
Just install Firefox. It’s not like you can’t import your bookmarks and such.
You can, but you should just switch to Firefox or accept ads in Chromium Browsers.
I can imagine that in the long run it will get harder for their forks to block ads with any extension.
I can’t wait for Ladybird in the future 💪.
There is no such option “accepting ads”. I will do everything in my power to block any type of ad in every device i own, no matter the diffuculty.
Oh definitely. I gave up ads about 20 years ago when I got rid of cable. Not a chance in hell I’m going back.
Why bother? Chromium browsers suck.
I’m struggling with the concept of people putting effort into using uBlock Origin with Chrome.
I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.
I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.
I bet those sites will play nice if you switch user-agents.
Is there an easy way to do this? I tried it for YouTube cause they slow Firefox down to a crawl but it didn’t seem to do anything. Maybe the extension I downloaded was at fault but I couldn’t find an easy way to just do it in Firefox without an extension.
This is the Firefox extension I use, I would check the headers your browser passes with WhoAmI to verify your user-agent, alternatively you can use invidious to get around YouTube’s bullshit.
I host a public Invidious instance for folks with a Canadian IP - https://inv.halstead.host/
Then you use Chrome for sites that require it and Firefox for everything else.
Just use edge, it’s chrome based. Or any other chrome based browsers that aren’t google chrome?
well this is just silly advice. that’s like saying “Don’t use Chrome, use Vivaldi” it’s all chromium thus it will also disable uBlock.
Get off ALL chromium based browsers. I loved Vivaldi but I haven’t used it in well over a year. Switch to FF or a Fork of it like Floorp OR if you’re like me and don’t like Mozilla use QuteBrowser and never have to worry about anything ever again.
Well some haven’t disabled ublock yet. So it isn’t that silly if chrome based is what they need to run for certain sites. Just use something that is based off it and isn’t stoping ublock yet.
If they don’t play nice then fuck em
My new rent portal is one of these sites. Can’t just not pay rent because I don’t like chromium browsers.
Rent portal? You mean bank account with direct debit and/or electronic transfer. What is a rent portal? How can you possibly benefit from having a website just to act as a middle man to collect your personal info?
Ah yes, because you get to choose how your landlord collects rent.
Is this actually easier than installing librewolf?
God, this is like those people who still insist on running Windows 7
Tbf, win7 was the best os i ever used. Only to be royally fucked by win8, win10 and win11. Oh how it has fallen…
Hmm, openSUSE Tumbleweed has been the best OS I’ve ever used, and it’s still available. Windows 7 was marginally better than Vista because they fixed the broken stuff, but it still had all the problems of a Windows OS.
