Big win for Firefox.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2026
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Ah, the Sam Reich of browsers
Just a crying shame Mozilla has turned into a commercial nightmare making them relatively poor custodians of the only free choice we have left.
Mozilla needs to die so Firefox can live.
The income stream from Firefox is plenty for a highly technical, deeply competent, widely dispersed team could work full time on the product using something like OpenCollective.
Instead what we get is prime SF real estate offices, “competitive” SF salaries and a commercial organisation that seeks weird and increasingly desperate income streams to justify looking like “real company”.
I want an actual non-profit governing Firefox.
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Anyone that uses Chrome doesn't know what a clean non ad infested website looks like so they won't notice the difference.
Every time I do IT work, I ask to install Firefox
There are many choices and people still stay on shit browsers because of laziness.
I actually do a pretty good job of selling it. I tell them that I can set up Firefox so using the Internet is easier. I'm 3/5 so far
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Well, you don't need to be a genius to imagine a concrete site without shit. Chrome users apparently love advertisements, trackers, pop-up windows and other similar things. Well, who are we to disagree?
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Given how long ago this was announced, anybody still using Chrome doesn't care.
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This is gonna be so bad because now there is only uBlock origin lite and "uBlock", if you couln't guess: the 2nd one is a scam that google never tried to remove(it's been up for some years IIRC) and i am sure that everyone will try to install this scam because they can't find the original uBlock origin (and everyone just refers to uBlock origin as uBlock which makes it worse)
the 2nd one is a scam that google never tried to remove
It's a little more complicated. uBlock was the original name, gorhil handed it off when he felt the maintenance burden became too high. Then he forked it to make his own uBlock Origin version.
At some point later uBlock was bought up by the AdBlock people, who in turn were later bought by the AdBlock Plus people.
So it's not a scam exactly, more like an inbred sideline of the royal family.
Holy shit, seems to be watching a soap opera tf
It’s a scam because it specifically goes out of its way to not block an ad, as long as that ad pays a bribe to them. It should be called uAd.
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company which makes most of it's revenue from advertising fucks with their browser's ability to remove ads. Go figure!
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Chrome? What is that?
A thin layer of chromium on the surface of a metal to make it shiny and protect from corrosion.
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And i removed Chrome from my devices
I think I'll be switching to librewolf at home. It can install mozilla extensions and comes with ublock origin baked in. Pulling a stunt like this is just going to drive people away from the Chrome environment. Corpos can't help but shoot themselves in the foot.
Most people I know simply don't care. They will use it because it's convenient and they don't care about the privacy dangers. I can't comprehend it myself though. Drives me up the wall.
They will use it because it's convenient
Using web without ublock is amongst the most inconvenient things I've experienced
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I've seen some shift among the tech illiterate in my immediate vicinity, but most are still in the "I got nothing to hide" category of clueless twits.
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Install Firefox with https://adnauseam.io/, it's basically ublock origin but internally clicks on every add destroying your adds profile and damaging economics of adds and conversion.
Doesn't this just track the shit out of you? Does it also click malicious ad banners?
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Sing it with me:
Chrome, huh, yeah.
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, uhh….
Firefox users right now:
Damn it.
Gotta use chrome at work.
Firefox "isn't secure and isn't supported" - my it director
isnt secure... tell you dont understand security without telling me you don't understand security.
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ublock origin lite, the natural replacement but not automatically enabled by google or microsoft. you have to go get it. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home
an alternative is adguard's browser extension. it is free to use and open source (gpl). https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension#installation
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so it ~~begins~~ continues...
Ah, thank god I am using Zen (Firefox fork) now for 2 years already. I totally forgot about this manifest bs. Now that Chrome introduced vertical tabs I was thinking to myself "ah, I could give it a try, having less breaking things and so on". But thanks for this reminder I will gladly stay with Zen.
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Edge will soon follow. They announced it. Polly will switch to helium or brave
Brave is kinda shady with their whole cryptocurrency thing, Helium seems fine but it’s still based on Chromium. I’ve been recommending people check out Librewolf
Simple Firefox is perfectly fine.
Ungoogled Chromium is my standby for the instances when a Blink browser is needed, though it's not entirely simple to set up.
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