Re:Where's Firefox Going Next?
by EbNar on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:44AM
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There are quite a few browser that don't ever need extensions to block ads. There's thus no reason for me to use Firefox (and I don't want to, until it's managed by Mozilla).
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Thank you for the downvotes. I forgot to mention that the toxic community is an additional reason to avoid FF and anything related with it.
I didn't downvote you, but your vague mentioning of some browsers "that don't ever need extensions to block ads" is not helpful at all and sounds wrong to me. There are only three major browser engines in the world, and only Firefox's one blocks ads reliably.
Well, I dont see ads in my non-FF browser. Don't know what else I could say. And, to be precise, FF doesn't block anything by itself. It just relies on an the job of unpaid volunteers to block ads.
Which "non-FF" browser? Ladybird? Lynx?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871873
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43240477
There are quite a few Chromium browsers with an inbuilt adblocker. Mine is one of these. My world isn't going to end with UBo.
Which ones?
Ok, now I'm pretty sure you're trolling. Bye.
Your're just not giving enough details for a refute, so I had to dig links about all browsers I could find. You're trolling, since you only give vague, general statements, which don't move the discussion.
Brave ships with an ad blocker built in i believe.
I don't need any MV2 extension, so I don't really care.
So, you're fine with the ads and tracking.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=EbNar#44578751
Besides, using that together with a DNS blocker does a wonderful job, whether you believe it or not.
The discontinued support of MV2 means that all ads will eventually adapt and your anti-ad measures stop working.
I think you don't understand the difference between an extension (for which manifest version matters) and an intrinsic feature (for which the manifest means nothing). It's either that, or you want to convince people that FF the only way. No, it isn't. Deal with it.
Brave has built in ad / tracking blocking without using MV2. If MV2 vanished in Brave you could still have blocking without using uBlock Origin
Almost nobody cares about anything other than ad blocking and to top it off the reply to the comment you linked is even mentioning that they were only talking about ad block...
You may be right, but I have no trust in Brave. Not just due to their shady decisions in the past but also because they would have to fight a huge ad industry on a tiny budget with their built-in ad blocker. At least if it's an add-on, the community would be able to help easier.