[perlgeek]

They also have the "extensions that can do real ad blocking" angle.

[freedomben]

Indeed, manifest v2 support alone is a killer feature that will keep me on FF as long as they support it.

It definitely helps that it's also a great (though imperfect) browser.

[netdevphoenix]

The wider point here is that you can only use FF as long as Mozilla can fund it and Mozilla can only fund it as long as Google funds them. At some point, it will be cheaper for Google to pay monopoly fines than funding Mozilla.

[aleph4]

Yes, although they can't go all in on that because it doesn't help monetization...

[bamboozled]

Have you tried Brave?

[thesuitonym]

Brave is adware.

[EbNar]

Been running it since 2021. The adblocker is simply great. A d keeps getting better.

[Larrikin]

It's good enough when some terrible lazy web designer only tested on Chrome. It does nothing to protect against the future when Google decides they are sick of people trying to get around their Ad Block ban and change the license because no one has any real alternatives anymore.

Also blocking is not as good as intentionally poisoning with something like Ad Nauseum

[lurk2]

A few years ago. Crashed constantly and didn’t support tagging bookmarks.

[WawaFin]

I've been using Chrome with uBlock Origin Lite and not even once I found a case when this version of uBlock was behaving differently (as less efficient) than the "full" uBlock Origin

Maybe I'm just lucky, but even this argument is quite ... meh

[zamadatix]

I've found it a bit like "what car did you drive in to work with today" in that any typical current and working car is not going to be a stark difference to a high end car in terms of how fast you get there... but you'd definitely notice a piece of crap with a donut, broken heating, and screeching brakes causing you problems if that's what you were comparing instead.

I.e. I can count the number of times I said "wow, uBO Lite didn't make this site usable but loading up Firefox with uBO and it worked fine" on one hand. At the same time, if I ever look and compare how much is actually getting blocked, uBO is definitely blocking way more. Doing a side by side compare of dozens of sites it becomes easier to see minor differences I wouldn't otherwise have noted, but may not have mattered as much.

[rpdillon]

I commented about this a few weeks ago here about this, but essentially: v2 allows you to block things you can't see, but you still probably don't want, like folks hiding cloud analytics behind CNAME cloaking to allow it to appear as a first-party site rather than Google Analytics, for example.

You won't "feel" this in your day-to-day browsing, but if you're concerned about your data being collected, v2 matters.

[0x3f]

Does it not still suck at blocking YouTube video ads? As in, you get a delay before videos start playing.

[sunaookami]

There are a lot more Manifest V2 only extensions than only Adblockers.

[mkozlows]

How's that work for you on Android? Firefox on Android with uBlock is the huge win.

[IshKebab]

Doesn't work for Prime Video ads. Tbh I don't mind that too much.

[dig1]

chromium-ungoogled works perfectly fine with "extensions that can do real ad blocking" ;)

[DaSHacka]

Ungoogled Chromium is maintaining Manifest V2 support in the fork?