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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

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[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 133 points 8 months ago

People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.

Adblocking still works fine on Firefox. Just update your UBO filters.

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

I literally have un-installed chrome. I had to use it on an office machine today and it felt weird.

[-] TinyPizza@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago

proud of you

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 1 points 8 months ago

The default browser at my work is Firefox lol, only our testing team and a few others use Chrome. It's a pretty welcome change 👍

I find it a little funny when we get Chrome-specific bug reports though

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Aside from Firefox, are there any decent non-Chromium-based browsers left?

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 months ago

Nope

[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 4 points 8 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks.

For anyone else interested, as of November 2023:

Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox's engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox.

Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple's engine), and Blink (Google's engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

There are many. They're just not as popular.

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