You could probably use Firefox 93. Firefox 8 is quite old.

> I'll never go back

I probably said that a couple of decades ago. Things change.

How are you blocking ads without ublock origin?

pihole

blocks ads across the entire network

I already know that's going to be an ongoing project getting sites correctly whitelisted, plus its all moot when I take my laptop outside my home. Ublock origin just works.

the only sites I've had to whitelist are the shopping links in Google.

I maintain my pihole outside the house with an always on wireguard tunnel. Granted, this is more work than installing an extension but my phone uses it too.

The biggest thing I miss is ad blocking on youtube.

NoScript. No need to thank me

broke all my banking websites and probably half the rest of the web when i tried it out unfortunately. the world is reliant on javascript for better or worse.

Whitelist your banking websites.

And I did, then some other critical website would come up that would be broken, then another, and another, and eventually I just got sick of dealing with the internet in a broken state and always having to mess with a config. At least with ublock origin I can block trackers and ads and still use websites that rely on js, which is the vast majority of them these days, and it works without me having to do hardly any fiddling at all.

I have, many times. It’s slower than chrome and comes with lots of ads in the interface by default.