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2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up

28 points| fl4tul4 | 2 months ago

In the title.

25 comments

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bobajeff|2 months ago

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?

fl4tul4|2 months ago

Haven't you heard about the millions of dollars trying to 'convince' the CEO of doing so?

tkel|2 months ago

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.

QuiEgo|2 months ago

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.

BuckRogers|2 months ago

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.

Madmallard|2 months ago

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.

someotherperson|2 months ago

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.

suprjami|2 months ago

Great idea! Then you can move to a Chromium-based browser which has (checks notes) uBlock Origin Lite.

Oh.

throw-12-16|2 months ago

I have no need for a PiHole currently, but I will likely set one up if that happens.

dogma1138|2 months ago

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.

DetectDefect|2 months ago

DNS blocking is entirely insufficient compared to DOM interception and filtering, especially with domain fronting.

naishoya|2 months ago

giving up Mozilla, or uBlock Origin? the title seems ambiguous for me

fl4tul4|2 months ago

Just to be accurate then: "it" refers to Mozilla (all and any products).

It'll be the last straw for me.