- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Reminder to switch browsers if you haven’t already!
- Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
- The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
- Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
Same with Opera / Opera GX
Don’t recommend Opera. Owned by China now, with very unethical practices
I miss the old Opera, back when it had its own engine. It was a really good browser. I used it from 2002 until 2012.
I remember it also let you spoof your user agent, and had a built in email client. It was just generally feature rich.
Don’t recommend Brave either lol.
I’m not recommending it. I’m saying that’s how its Adblock works.
I mean, Google has probably even more unethical practices, I would have thought. (compared to Opera, not to China. Though the US is worse than China for sure.)