I think is time to #switch back to @firefox
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave/comments/17z4m03/its_over_boys/
#brave #youtube #chrome #ads #adblock #blockadblock #chromium
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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I have seen so many inbuilt ad blockers of browsers fail, especially at YouTube, even before the recent changes, that I was surprised to see them still being used and promoted by eg. Louis Rossmann.
IMO basically nothing can beat addons, at least if seen for all browsers or just firefox.
Browser devs can't focus on ad blocking functionality. And their team developing ad blockers will certainly be smaller than the team of devs for adblock addons; the browser just needs somewhat functional stuff while the addon depends on delivering a very good to perfect to be used and to receive donations.
On chromium, with Manifest V3 at our doors, built in ad blockers will win over addons by far, just because they have more power.
This creates an interesting situation, at least in my mind fed by my bubble:
Tech nerds will use firefox, probably with adblock addon
Tech illiterates will use whatever comes preinstalled - Edge, without any adblock
Users that know the concept of browsers will probably use Chrome, or other browsers they heard before - possibly a Chromium browser with built in blocker
Now, what happens if the built in blockers fail - again and again and again? Will the somewhat knowledgeable user care and switch to another browser, maybe the one pushed the most for adblocking: FF with uBlock?
Adblock isn't a real issue because every browser has it. The real issue is all the other cool extensions available from Chromium-based browsers.
I use 27 addons on my desktop, in firefox. There are no extensions I would need but don't exist for firefox. The only extension I had to replace with a Tampermonkey script was Vencord, because the devs removed the firefox version of it.
And on my phone I use 12 addons. On chrome, or any other browser not based on FF, I could use exactly none.
27 addons? Might as well disable Resist Fingerprinting, then.
I know what you're saying, because having that many addons makes them unique, but doesn't resist fingerprinting still help somewhat?
It does a few things here and there that can still be useful, true.
In my understanding, a website should only be able to detect addons if they directly change the website in any way, eg. the css or html. So let's just go through the list and check:
Yeah…that’s why I switched from FF to Chrome a few years ago. I was tired of whatever extension it was that i needed or wanted at the time being only on Chrome. Of course, i’m back on FF now and it seems to be much better for what i need, so that’s good.
If you're ever aching for a chrome extension try out waterfox, it's based on Firefox but also allows the use of some chrome extensions, the list of useable extensions used to be bigger, but it's growing again thanks to the original dev getting the browser independent again and re-opening it's development