Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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    17 hours ago

    As of the latest Chrome update on PC, they have dropped support for uBlock. You can still technically enable it, but they disabled it by default once you update.

    That got me back to Firefox with breakneck speed.

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      17 hours ago

      Hopefully soon Librewolf, Fennec F-droid and other forks will become mainstream.

      I haven’t switched to Librewolf on pc yet; hoping that turning off the telemetry/etc options in ff is enough, but I’m starting to think it might not be long.

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        16 hours ago

        I switched over to LibreWolf recently. I discovered Vivaldi just a few hours before I learned about the Manifest v3 stuff for Chromium (which is a shame because I actually LOVED Vivaldi). I really want to try Zen Browser, but I’m using old, 2011-era Macs (running Ubuntu 24.04 on one) and it won’t install. LibreWolf is great because of its clean, minimal design and absolute privacy-forward thinking. I’ve enjoyed it so far (and I’m only running it on the Ubuntu machine).

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        16 hours ago

        I want to switch over further but so far I’ve had so much else going on that data privacy hasn’t taken a priority. Things are getting weird now so it is time for a priority change.

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      14 hours ago

      Frankly speaking, calling out Google and Chrome, then moving to Firefox while Mozilla have been doing it’s best Google impression for years now is not that great of a plan.

      I wonder how long Firefox will be ok with all that, since Mozilla bought that advertisement business a while ago.

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        12 hours ago

        The main problem is that building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google’s version of WebKit. So there’s no alternatives: it’s either Google or Mozilla. Forks don’t count because if some functionality that end users need is deprecated, nobody will maintain it and it will just disappear once it’s removed from the main codebase

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          8 hours ago

          Yes, I agree. That’s why I’m weirded out by people saying “Firefox bad, use Librewolf” and the like.

          I still think a solution that relies on donation (maybe with some corporate support) would be very good for everyone involved. Unfortunately, Mozilla is not a player in this, so we’re stuck with basically three engines, one that can’t be used, one that’s openly hostile, and one that’s becoming hostile.

          Not great.

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          10 hours ago

          building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google’s version of WebKit

          To be fair it is based on KHTML. One of projects KDE can spend that extra money on and resurrect.

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            10 hours ago

            Bring back Konqueror too while at it!

            Edit: Apparently it still exists, it just isn’t the default on any mainstream distros anymore