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It did not hit me yet, but I'm already rewriting my extensions to firefox to switch if Chrome really axes uBO
by jeanlucas 2y ago
It did not hit me yet, but I'm already rewriting my extensions to firefox to switch if Chrome really axes uBO
- TheGlav 2y agoIt's not if. It's when. It has been 'when' since 2020. It is coming. It is not going to not come. It will be here in mere releases. Get ready.
- jeanlucas 2y agoYeah, hence why I started already migrating, slowly. I have a simple tab organizer extension and some greasemonkey scripts that should work perfectly fine on Firefox without any changes.
- chrisfosterelli 2y agoYou're probably right, but FWIW it's not unheard of for google to announce, continually delay, and eventually completely backtrack on things like this, like third party cookie deprecation.
- zarzavat 2y agoThis time it affects their bottom line in a profound way so wishful thinking is probably not going to work unfortunately.
- Terretta 2y ago> affects their bottom line in a profound way Something around 8% of total digital ad spend.
- sebastialonso 2y agoTo be fair, that's tremendous
- timbowhite 2y agoSource?
- sunaookami 2y ago>third party cookie deprecation It's because they were literally sued and are not allowed to remove it, not because they don't want to.
- c2h5oh 2y agoIt's already axed in canary release
- jeanlucas 2y agoI'm still at the "This extension may soon no longer be supported" warning
- Technetium 2y ago2 days ago: "Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178
- godzillabrennus 2y agoI am switching family over to Brave. They don’t even notice the difference and I’m more confident the browser will continue to support user centric content filtering.
- capitainenemo 2y agoWhich is fine so long as what they have built into the browser is all you need (and so long as Google does not sabotage those efforts). If ever you might need more such as what uBO offers, though, Brave is also subject to whatever changes Google makes (such as Manifest V3).
- WD-42 2y agoIs that going to help? Brave is still blink. They might have some filtering baked in but I’m not sure if it’s as powerful (or can be) as UBO.
- smallerize 2y agoBrave will keep Manifest V2 compatibility as long as they can, specifically focusing on "AdGuard AdBlocker, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix". https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/ https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
- WD-42 2y agoI guess I'm curious what "as long as they can" actually means. If it means they can't pull upstream Blink without losing v2 support, that's bad. I think Firefox is the only viable solution to continue using UBO at this point.
- EasyMark 2y agoI seem to recall they said as long as it was technically AND economically feasible. It depends on how much google attempts to spread the cancer of mv3 throughout their code base. Eventually brave won’t have the manpower to hack v2 in is the likely result without going bankrupt if google really wants to go down that path.
- altdataseller 2y agoFor those unaware, what is uBO and how would it affect most extensions?
- cholmon 2y ago"uBO" is an abbreviation of "uBlock Origin".
- OkGoDoIt 2y agouBO (uBlock Origin) is a popular open source ad blocker. There is a change coming to the way Google Chrome and some other browsers host extensions called manifest v3, which for (stated) security and privacy purposes limits a lot of the functionality that makes ad blockers work the way they do. There are workarounds but they are suboptimal. This has been an ongoing fight for years and there are plenty of accusations that Google is doing this because they want to cripple ad blockers since they make so much money from advertising. Firefox has explicitly stated they will not force these changes on extension developers, and thus a lot of people have been threatening to move to Firefox whenever Google finally makes this change for real.
- testfrequency 2y agoMaybe it’s a telling sign of the new wave of HN users, but I’m genuinely surprised to read that you don’t know what uBlock is..
- sureIy 2y ago> I'm already rewriting my extensions to firefox What does that mean? Firefox uses the same API. At most you have to change `background.service_worker` to `background.scripts` (literally just rename the key)