cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20260243

Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

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    3 months ago

    I want there to be a competitive market so that Firefox gets better. Without good competition it will continue to rot.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t understand the premise of this statement. Do you think Firefox doesn’t have competition in the browser space?

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        3 months ago

        It only has Chromium which somehow is worse than Firefox. We need something that supports all the same features as Firefox but isn’t a fork

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          3 months ago

          Are you talking about the rendering engine? Safari still uses WebKit. Everything else was killed off by chrome. No one wanted to make addons for Internet Explorer, so they switched to Chromium as well.

          It would be extremely difficult to put something new into the market at this point. If even Microsoft lacked the resources, it’s hard to imagine anyone succeeding IMO.