• @Sliversun@lemmy.world
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    2710 days ago

    Glad that I moved to firefox 4 months ago and then to zen browser last week to avoid plugins removal. Haven’t looked back

    • @tal@lemmy.today
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      10 days ago

      So, the elephant in the room is Chrome killing ad-blocking.

      I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking.

      https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

      As of February:

      Chrome: 66.3%

      Safari: 17.99%

      Edge: 5.33%

      Firefox: 2.62%

      The software used to view the Web in 2025 is really mostly under the control of either Google or Apple.

      • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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        1610 days ago

        There’s always PiHole to block ads at the network level. It takes some setup and a raspberry pi but it can be one of the cheaper ones. And I’m pretty sure the sites aren’t going to do much more than check the User Agent to get the browser so User Agent Switcher will get around 99% of that.

        You could, I suppose, block Firefox in other ways (like maybe checking for some random Chromium feature not yet supported in Firefox) but Firefox isn’t usually far behind Chrome so it would almost take an entire new developer to be effective. And there’s probably ways around that too. (I’m a web developer but have never worked on an ad-supported project and never will so I’m not sure but life finds a way.)

        • @triptrapper@lemmy.world
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          110 days ago

          Is it possible to set up the pihole so certain devices are unfiltered? My partner works in digital marketing and needs to test that her clients’ ads are functional.

          • @MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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            210 days ago

            As I recall, the answer is yes, as long as you make the Pi your DHCP provider or assign static IP. I was using it in the opposite way to block certain sites from certain devices. But my kids are old enough now that I haven’t done it in a couple of years.

          • Amphy
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            310 days ago

            Yep. You can just disable filtering for specific devices. Or, if you want to get more granular, you can create device groups with different levels of filtering (including none).

            My partner uses Facebook, I don’t. Her phone has Facebook unblocked, but it’s blocked on all our other devices.

        • @tehmics@lemmy.world
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          1010 days ago

          Yep, I have my PiHole running on a Pi2 still.

          You’re underestimating these websites though. I already run into sites that arbitrarily throw up a “Firefox not supported” gate until I switch user agents. That will only get worse.

          I’m still very concerned about Firefox’s funding majority coming from Google search, especially after the antitrust shutting it down. https://slashdot.org/story/431592

          We’re headed for dark times for the open internet.

      • @coolmojo@lemmy.world
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        110 days ago

        Safari on IPhone does have adblocker extensions. So the websites should stop supporting Apple devices as well in order to display ads. This is nearly 20% of users based on your stats.

        • Eager Eagle
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          510 days ago

          I don’t bother. Most sites I wouldn’t miss at all. There’s only half a dozen or so websites that could force me to take any action on my end.

      • riot
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        1910 days ago

        I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking

        An argument could also be made that Firefox and its forks have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue won’t want to deal with the extra work of keeping those users out.

  • @LinyosT@sopuli.xyz
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    2710 days ago

    The sad thing is that people will see this and still try to find a way to keep using chrome instead of just moving to a browser that actually respects them.

  • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    4010 days ago

    I don’t have any chrome extensions because I don’t use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.

  • @Matt3999@lemmy.world
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    48 days ago

    One of the extensions blocked is called “Trump blocker” - looks like they are getting into arse kissing too

    • xor
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      18 days ago

      It’s not blocked because of the “Trump” bit though, right? It’s because it’s not a manifest V3 extension

  • Engywook
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    -910 days ago

    I only care about adblocking, so ControlD+Brave for me.

      • Madbrad200
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        -110 days ago

        Yes, but its maintaining support for these extentions… for now at least.

        • Engywook
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          110 days ago

          As I said, I mainly care about adblocking. Shields (Brave’s adblocker) does an amazing job and doesn’t depend on MV2 or MV3 (it’s not an extension).

      • Engywook
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        10 days ago

        That’s precisely one of the reasons I use it.

  • bizarroland
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    8710 days ago

    One of my co-workers switched to UBlock Lite instead of UBlock Origin and now the ads are back.

    Now he’s working on switching to a non-Google browser.

    Good job, Google. You have killed Google for yet another former customer.

    • @stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
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      510 days ago

      I 'm forced to use Chrome on my work laptop and it is the worst browser (even before the disabling of Manifest V2), but for security I can’t access many systems with even another chromium based browser . Funnily IT forces an extension on us and it isn’t compatible with Manifest V3.

    • @CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      You are not Google’s customer. You’re the product they sell to their customers.

      Edit: Made this comment before refreshing the post to see the person above me. What they said.

  • mesa
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    810 days ago

    Yeah they essentially killed about half the extensions I use. I have to use the browser for work.

  • @emanuga@feddit.org
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    410 days ago

    Zen Browser on Mac and Orion on iOS. ublock origin and NextDNS on for both - no ads, no adblocker detected. Ever.

  • yeehaw
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    5210 days ago

    Stop. Using. Chrome.

    Firefox is the way.

  • Phoenixz
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    49 days ago

    Yeah I only run chrome for Microsoft teams which I unfortunately still have to use.

    The other day I saw a list of like 20 plugins, about 90% of what I have installed, banned. Not that I ever want chrome back but WTF?

  • @DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de
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    510 days ago

    I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?