2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up
In the title.
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Sure. But why make this a New Year's Resolution instead of a more open ended resolution? Also what make you think Mozilla would tamper with ublock origin?
Haven't you heard about the millions of dollars trying to 'convince' the CEO of doing so?
Yes, we heard the CEO saying that Mozilla is not going to take the millions of dollars for doing so.
There are some things to be angry at Mozilla, but I'm not sure how you can read the exact opposite of what was being said in this particular case.
There are some things to be angry at Mozilla, but I'm not sure how you can read the exact opposite of what was being said in this particular case.
Got a source?
https://infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-...
uBlock Origin Lite (2024): https://www.neowin.net/news/ublock-origin-lite-maker-ends-fi...
there are many other sources - DYOR
uBlock Origin Lite (2024): https://www.neowin.net/news/ublock-origin-lite-maker-ends-fi...
there are many other sources - DYOR
Rooting for Ladybird https://ladybird.org/
You might want to check his political views first… they might not align with yours…
Or don't, it's a browser, not a political party
Our actions are political… and the choices we make show support for others choices too
I’ve heard enough from multiple sources about Ladybird’s creator to know that I don’t wish to support him and it’s not a recent view
I’ve heard enough from multiple sources about Ladybird’s creator to know that I don’t wish to support him and it’s not a recent view
I respectfully disagree.
You can believe in a kind of political "butterfly effect" where every little action you take has a meaningful effect on the world, but I don't think it's useful.
Downloading a browser may well put a thousandth of a smile on the face of someone you think is a bad dude, but if you give a shit about bad things happening in the world this is miles away from a good use of your time and energy.
You can believe in a kind of political "butterfly effect" where every little action you take has a meaningful effect on the world, but I don't think it's useful.
Downloading a browser may well put a thousandth of a smile on the face of someone you think is a bad dude, but if you give a shit about bad things happening in the world this is miles away from a good use of your time and energy.
Oh it’s ok we can disagree…
My views on Ladybird’s creator stem from his behaviour long before he started creating a browser or an OS
Choosing not to use it doesn’t cost me any time or energy!
My views on Ladybird’s creator stem from his behaviour long before he started creating a browser or an OS
Choosing not to use it doesn’t cost me any time or energy!
To all the people who seem to be invested in the actions of Mozilla: you should invest in an organizational structure that actually gives you a say in the company's actions: a consumer cooperative.
I have no idea what to do for a browser now.
Safari as of MacOS 26 is buggy as hell, and I don't care for its new UI at all.
Firefox seems to be going in a direction I don't want to follow.
Chrome is openly user hostile.
All of the various forks have problems - they just seem like ways to extract money from you (e.g. they just send the data to MSFT instead of GOOG, they push you to some crypto thing), or they have serious limitations (e.x. no access to extension marketplace without hacks, abondware, slow to get security updates)...
I'm honestly at a loss for an option I want to use.
Safari as of MacOS 26 is buggy as hell, and I don't care for its new UI at all.
Firefox seems to be going in a direction I don't want to follow.
Chrome is openly user hostile.
All of the various forks have problems - they just seem like ways to extract money from you (e.g. they just send the data to MSFT instead of GOOG, they push you to some crypto thing), or they have serious limitations (e.x. no access to extension marketplace without hacks, abondware, slow to get security updates)...
I'm honestly at a loss for an option I want to use.
Try Waterfox?
The Adguard extension on Edge works really well. It replaced UBlock Origin for me. They actually try to push the limits of mv3 with workarounds. Which uBO refuses to do out of some sort of principle, hence the lite version. I do still use uBO Lite in iOS though. I don’t care about the lack of options and customization on that platform.
I gave it up a year ago at least when they changed their terms of service to start selling your data to advertisers. They haven't been a privacy-focused company for at least that long now. They are lying to you.
They're not just lying, they're killing the hopes of other independent browsers to take the reigns and the attention of the FOSS community. Mozilla is incredibly cancerous from this perspective: it's Google-backed controlled opposition.
Great idea! Then you can move to a Chromium-based browser which has (checks notes) uBlock Origin Lite.
Oh.
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I have no need for a PiHole currently, but I will likely set one up if that happens.
PiHole is nearly useless these days. It doesn’t block the majority of the ads and DNS blacklisting on its own breaks websites.
The only way to do ad-blocking these days is with DOM manipulation.
The only way to do ad-blocking these days is with DOM manipulation.
This is not my experience at all. pihole blocks a massive amount of ads in my home. It is extremely rare that any website ever breaks.
What adlist are you using?
DNS blocking is entirely insufficient compared to DOM interception and filtering, especially with domain fronting.