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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (119 points, 4 months ago, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178
About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (182 points, 6 months ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140185
In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 (143 points, 1 year ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361758
No one at Mozilla will ever have the conviction and power to fix this design misstep. I had a bunch of other reasons typed up but finding out that this will be wrong forever is actually enough for me.
I hate ads more than anyone and I'll switch if I'm forced to but Firefox is just a bad knock off of a browser forever playing catch up with the real thing. But I'm glad someone's doing it.
I mean I use Firefox, but any time I have to open Chrome for whatever reason, it just feels like the UI is responding a handful of milliseconds faster than Firefox, even on very powerful hardware.
2,320,452 DNS Queries
117,334 Blocked by Filters (5.06%).
Top blocked domains:
eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com 45,3543 8.65%
euc-word-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 7,573 6.45%
metrics.icloud.com 6,475 5.52%
4...13.us-east-1.prod.service.minerva.devices.a2z.com 4,351 3.71%
euc-excel-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 4,141 3.53%
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHomeI do have developer mode already toggled on which might make a difference?
Later, the change will be forced on all users.
For example, the Windows 11 hardware requirements were extreme enough that some of the then current computers sold by Microsoft didn't meet the spec, but there was a temporary option to bypass those requirements.
> Microsoft makes its stringent TPM 2.0 Windows 11 upgrade requirement "non-negotiable" — potentially leading to the single biggest jump in junked and unsupported Windows 10 PCs
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/micr...
Google is following the same playbook here. At first there is a workaround. Lster,it us removed.
I've been entirely fine all that time.