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Posted by DemiGuru 22 hours ago

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin(www.pcworld.com)
1450 points | 553 commentspage 8
hamper653 9 hours ago|
The Web needs to die.
socalgal2 16 hours ago||
I'm just waiting for Apple's OS level AI that lets me block ads in all apps, including the App Store
lxe 17 hours ago||
What's preventing anyone to just spend some tokens and bring it back and fork Chrome? I think ungoogled Chromium still supports it, right?
fg137 17 hours ago|
If you don't care about DRM content, bookmark syncing etc, sure, use a bare minimum chromium fork with the patch.

But that's not what most users, including uBlock origin users, want.

inigyou 17 hours ago||
Too bad Firefox isn't a major browser.

And it shouldn't be. It's now full of ads for Mozilla VPN and stuff. We need the engine, but not the browser.

picofarad 2 hours ago||
I've never seen an ad for Mozilla VPN, nor any other Mozilla product, in Firefox.

However I have seen billions of ads on google.com and YouTube.com, and search placement, and fraud.

But whatever. How's google pay? Pretty good?

wookmaster 15 hours ago|||
The benefit of open source here is there are forked versions of it you can download.
inigyou 8 hours ago||
Exactly. I suggest Zen.
0dayz 15 hours ago||
And who is going to finance that?
spottedmarley 22 hours ago|
Anyone can build a custom extension to do anything an extension is allowed to do. I had ~7 standard extensions that I pretty much always install into chrome browser. Over the past month or so I've been using Claude code to build a single custom extension that handles all of the things I used 7 extensions for previously. One extension does everything. You can even use the existing extensions you already use as guides for Claude to make sure all of the features you want are included. One extension to rule them all!
ycombinatrix 22 hours ago|
>Anyone can build a custom extension to do anything an extension is allowed to do

Yes, that's why google moved to manifest v3 and extensions can't do as much.

spottedmarley 21 hours ago|||
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Madmallard 18 hours ago|||
Can't they just modify the browser itself with an injection into the executable

surely there is a way around that

downrightmike 18 hours ago||
Operative work there is 'just'
Madmallard 16 hours ago||
okay and AI makes that easier than ever?
downrightmike 13 hours ago||
Have a MVP?