Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
  • Voytrekk ( voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ) 
    22·
    3 months ago

    Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo—the two other major non-Chromium browsers out there—support uBlock Origin.

    DDG’s browser is using webview, meaning it uses chrome on Windows/Android. Also not what I would consider a major browser.

    Even if Firefox drops support, it’s doubtful that many of its major forks will drop support.

    For those who want to use something other than a Firefox fork, there are some options.

    • Brave has built in ad blocking, but you need to disable a lot of their crap. There are scripts out there that can do it quickly.
    • Helium is in beta, but it bundles uBO.
    • Orion is currently only available for macOS, but it has a beta for for Linux available. It can install extensions from both Chrome and Firefox.
    • marcie (she/her) ( marcie@lemmy.ml ) 
      4·
      3 months ago

      Brave Origin on Linux is free, it’s the one that has the extra garbage ripped out. I don’t like braves practices but as a security person I really do admire how Brave Shields functions. Graphene said they were interested in lifting shields off of brave to put in vanadium but it currently wasn’t a top priority.