Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

josefritzishere•13 minutes ago

Ads are so invasive and prevalent now that you need an ad blocker just to use the internet.

vovavili•about 3 hours ago

Thank God for the Brave browser. For those disliking their built-in adblocker, there is a Manifest v2 opt-out specifically for uBlock if you need it.

jollyllama•about 2 hours ago

It's good but I find they EOL devices/OS's earlier than Firefox.

timetraveller26•about 2 hours ago

Firefox, after 20 years, once again has an advantage over the other browsers.

Let's hope for new generations to get tired of so many ads to finally ditch chrome.

ImJamal•about 2 hours ago

uBlock Origin Lite works decently on Chrome so I doubt this will help migration to Firefox.

ChrisArchitect•about 3 hours ago

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392

Insanity•4 minutes ago

Edge is just chromium under the hood. So not a surprise there, should be easy lift for them.

hasperdi•about 3 hours ago

Firefox is never really a major browser

throw-the-towel•11 minutes ago

"Never" is not true, it used to be a major browser. Now, though, sadly it isn't major.

pelcg•about 2 hours ago

I believe it is. 2% of global internet traffic.

1over137•about 2 hours ago

How is 2% major though? (I wish FF was more used!)

layer8•17 minutes ago

Firefox has 8-9% desktop market share in Europe, 16-18% in Germany. So in some important markets it’s still pretty relevant.

ndriscoll•about 2 hours ago

It's more than 2% when you condition on things like "lives in US" or "lives in EU" or "is using a desktop." e.g. among German desktop users it's apparently more like 20%. Most people probably aren't targeting global traffic and should never consider it since it can be extremely misleading.

sunaookami•18 minutes ago

Wasn't Opera's (the good old Presto one) marketshare also 1% back then? And it was still considered major (even though it had compatibility problems mainly caused by sites ignoring the standard)

paddim8•about 2 hours ago

One in every 50 people is a lot of people.

timetraveller26•about 2 hours ago

It's in the top 5.

It isn't more used because one browser is promoted by the biggest search engine and thus has two thirds of the market, and the other two come pre-installed with the OS.

spottedmarley•about 3 hours ago

Anyone can build a custom extension to do anything an extension is allowed to do. I had ~7 standard extensions that I pretty much always install into chrome browser. Over the past month or so I've been using Claude code to build a single custom extension that handles all of the things I used 7 extensions for previously. One extension does everything. You can even use the existing extensions you already use as guides for Claude to make sure all of the features you want are included. One extension to rule them all!

ycombinatrix•about 3 hours ago

>Anyone can build a custom extension to do anything an extension is allowed to do

Yes, that's why google moved to manifest v3 and extensions can't do as much.

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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