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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Vivaldi is including its own adblock outside of the manifest system that uses many of the same blocklists that uBlock does (although at this point you have to add them manually) and hopes to get near the same functionality by the time it is pulled and Mv3 is implemented. They originally had plans to offer a Mv2 compliant area but after seeing how Mv3 was going to be implemented, they changed there plans to many users dismay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think many people use Vivaldi. Also it is mostly proprietary so that's a hard pass for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Only the UI part is not open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

What's the point of keeping part of the UI closed source?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Partially proprietary still means proprietary.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

In my personal experience, and with great regret, I must say that Brave does a better job with its built-in ad blocking than Vivaldi has. Even after I did my damnedest to tweak the ad blocker settings (adding more lists from more sources, removing the "allow some ads" list, etc).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Brave itself is filled with ads. Crypto wallets, BAT, VPNs. I just want a browser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

But how else will Brandon Eich fund his homophobia and covid conspiracies?