An explanation of Manifest V3, why it matters, and what uBlock Origin is doing about it.
      • teft@startrek.websiteEnglish
        971·
        9 months ago

        Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          I went from Netscape to Mozzila and from Mozilla to Firefox and, guess what… my browser never fucked me up in the name of maximizing corporate profits.

          Google was already a wholly untrustworth Ad Company With A Tech Arm back when they invented Chrome, and shit like this was already back then a question of WHEN, not IF.

        • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          My recommendation is librefox and if you really want a chrome based alternative I’d suggest Thorium (although I don’t know what thorium will do when this is implemented I’m hoping they don’t follow it.)

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        311·
        9 months ago

        For anyone interested, as of November 2023:

        Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox’s engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox. Edit: and Fennec

        Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

        Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

        The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple’s engine), and Blink (Google’s engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

        • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          9 months ago

          I’d no idea there’s a browser called Conkeror. That’s prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE’s Konqueror browser.

        • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          I use firefox, but Id never head of these alternatives.

          Anyone who does have reviews? Pros, cons, reasons to use them beside variety?

        • Blorper59@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I thought it was pronounced Kay Melly-on, so I never tried it because of the silly name.

          Pihole will be unaffected.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        41·
        9 months ago

        Every other Google Chromium fork will need to maintain an increasingly complex set of changes to the Google repository

        Yet infinitely easier than building a new browser from the bottom up