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Jason844

I would like to be logged in to Youtube to participate in some live chats and to occasionally comment.

#Vivaldi is based on #Google's #Chromium platform. I know that #Google is working to kick uBlock Origin out of the #Chrome Extension Store since it's an effective YouTube ad blocker.

So I'll use Vivaldi as my browser and Firefox as a YouTube viewer! 🤪 🤣

Otherwise, I'd use Freetube or just log out of Google and watch add free.

#uBlockOrigin
#uBlock
#Firefox
#YouTube

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

@MsDropbear42 Oh ffs, this latest experiment with :zenbrowser: #ZenBrowser has ended after only a few hours, due to yet another catastrophic failure, preceded by various annoyances:

  • the dedicated Search Bar refused to show the drop-down menu of alternative search engines [works fine in :firefox: and :firefox_nightly: ]
  • the #Stylus AO refused to respond to clicks on its various usage & management icons in its drop-down menu [works fine in :firefox: and :firefox_nightly: ]
  • a link i opened from my Masto #Statuzer page decided to behave like i'd used #Glance [i did not], then when i converted it into a normal tab, entirely froze the Statuzer tab
  • wondering if possibly restarting Zen might fix the above, i tried to do so, which then destroyed my carefully crafted Zen profile... what ensued was a UI without various standard changes i'd made [eg, the Search Bar was gone again, the native tabs bar refused to Collapse again], but worst of all, all my open tabs were gone... again 😲 🤯🙄🤦‍♀️😡

My dear old :firefox_nightly: might be less pretty, less visually exciting, & might not have native split tabs, but far out it is & remains way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more reliable than Zen. I mean, it's really a bit silly... :firefox_nightly: is Alpha, :zenbrowser: is Beta, yet the former is generally rock solid reliable in the ~decade i've been using it. Otoh, all my experiments with Zen, over the past ~12-18 months, have ended in disappointment, frustration, & often also destruction.

So, yet again, i return to...

:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management + Web Panel UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, :floorp: #Floorp, :zenbrowser: #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️

:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

Have decided to give #ZenBrowser another go, but with conditions:

In case anyone wonders, this [temporary?] change from my hitherto daily :firefox_nightly: [#FirefoxNightly + #Sidebery + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar] has nothing to do with the recent global #FUD wrt Mozilla's #TOU / #EULA, but instead is due to the aesthetic pleasantness of :zenbrowser: & the desire to use its #SplitTabView #TabSplitView #TabPaneView; two undeniable advantages over Nightly.

* the Zen subreddit is full of users posting that Zen spontaneously lost all their tabs, or all their pinned tabs, or all their unpinned tabs. In my own past months of using Zen with its native #Workspaces & tabs, it also happened to me, twice, & it is most exasperating.

GitHubGitHub - aminought/firefox-second-sidebar: A Firefox userChrome.js script for adding a second sidebar with web panels like in Vivaldi/Floorp/Zen but better.A Firefox userChrome.js script for adding a second sidebar with web panels like in Vivaldi/Floorp/Zen but better. - aminought/firefox-second-sidebar
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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

This might be interesting. My :firefox_nightly: just updated from Nightly 138.0a1 (20250306092841); Installed on: 7 March 2025 at 08:53:02 to Nightly 138.0a1 (20250306213030); Installed on: 7 March 2025 at 12:53:01. Looking thru its Settings for any obvious changes, i found this new section:

Contrast Control
Websites have a variety of foreground and background colors. Configure Nightly to use the same colors across websites for improved readability.
Automatic (use system settings)
Off
Custom

I might play around with the AO #DarkReader disabled, & trying different parameters here.

:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly + #Sidebery + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️
:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = 💜 🎉

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Baloo Uriza

I like how #Firefox on #Android does support #uBlockOrigin, because it means I can take websites like TechDirt that create a CVS receipt or a webpage for an article that could fit on a single-item 7-Eleven receipt from 2002 (these would have made a single square of TP look large), and make it fit, often without scrolling, on a single screen by blocking all the stupid extra headers, comments section and related post carousels...

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Root Moose

Mozilla Firefox is officially dead.

My back is officially turned.

What options remain?

For now I'm probably going to be using Gnome Web (i.e. Epiphany) for most straightforward web browsing. It works more than well enough for the stuff I do. Mobile version for Android? Does it exist? iOS?

I'll use Vivaldi for lame "modern" sites that a "simple" browser like Epiphany can't render properly. Mobile?

We'll see how far that goes. This may be less and less of an issue. The big player sites like Google, Meta, etc. are not somewhere I tend to visit.

Banking sites are a mixed bag of necessity.

I'm about to let my Amazon Prime account lapse on its yearly renewal since I won't use them any more.

At least Vivaldi seems to be a decent organization. Technology is based on Chromium though - and this is why I haven't started using it.

I will need to investigate Vivaldi's built-in adblocking since manifest v2 isn't a thing under Chromium.

I used to care about keeping the Mozilla rendering engine alive and relevant but now not so much.

The Firefox forks I've tried have been a mixed bag of whether their new versions follow re-enabling the privacy invasive things that Mozilla upstream does when it sends out a new version.

Time to leave them behind as well I guess.

A lot will depend on how much I miss ublock origin.

If there is a mass exodus from all the Firefox based forks then ublock may cease to exist.

There's a rant in there about pi-holing all browsers but I don't have it in me ATM.

(Posted with Epiphany)

infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11

Infosec ExchangeTaggart :donor: (@mttaggart@infosec.exchange)Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon. > You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you **upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information** to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/ **Update:** See below in the thread for their clarification.
#Mozilla#Firefox#Gnome
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#uBlockOrigin dead for many as #Google purges #ManifestV2 extensions
#Chrome #adblocker stopped working? Time to look elsewhere
#uBlock recommends a move to #Firefox and use of the extension uBlock Origin, a switch to a browser that will support Manifest v2, or downloading a different extension – #uBlockOriginLite, for example.
theregister.com/2025/02/24/goo

Do you still trust an #ad company to block ads or not datamine you?

The Register · uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensionsBy Richard Speed
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Google #Chrome disables #uBlock Origin for some in #ManifestV3 rollout
For those unaware, Manifest V3 is Chrome's latest extension specification and is designed to limit extension access to user network requests, block developers from utilizing remote content, and improve overall performance.
If you're affected by Google's #ManifestV2 deprecation, you can switch to Manifest V3-supported extensions, such as the #uBlockOriginLite, which #uBlockOrigin developer has created.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog

BleepingComputer · Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rolloutBy Mayank Parmar
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Rachael Ava 💁🏻‍♀️

I get the impression that if ad companies thought they could get away with forcing people to watch 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (2⁶⁴) ads in a single video/movie/episode/song/article, they absolutely would if it meant they can make more money in profits. Capitalism doesn't care how you make more money, just that you do, no matter the cost.

#Capitalism#EatTheRich#Advertisements
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