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Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024: Finally everyone understands it's time to quit Google. 😎

Here are our favorite browsers alternatives:
➡️ tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…

Which one did you pick?

🦊 Firefox
🦆 DuckDuckGo
🕵️ Tor Browser
Mullvad
Pale Moon
Puffin
GNU IceCat
WaterFox
Brave
Hyphanet

Screenshot of Reddit post: @ r/uBlockOrigin - 28 days ago a - jasonrmns Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024

Why Bother With uBlock Origin Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox

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katlin

@sintrenton @dlmayhem
It seems that Tuta has for unexplained reasons recently dropped support for Javascript, so if you have sensibly disabled WebAssembly for security reasons, Tuta will unhelpfully just tell you to upgrade to a more modern browser, even if your browser is already latest version.

Could this possibly be the reason for Tuta failing in your browser?

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katlin

@sintrenton @dlmayhem Thanks @Tutanota for the link to the blog post which I did not see before, this explains motivation for using WebAssembly over Javascript and good overview of workarounds, although unfortunately users who are using web clients without WebAssembly only see the error message "Seems like your browser is not supported or outdated" which is not an accurate diagnostic and misses the explanation given by the blog post.
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paranormal

I think Google just reached to a point where they are certain that they don't have to please their chrome users anymore. They have plethora of products that have a monopoly or nearby monopoly. And their services are tied up with one another. They know chrome can survive even if they implement all their shitty decisions. There are too many huge forks like Brave and Vivaldi that will die once chrome stops development. Which is why chrome won't die or lose to firefox. We should also take a note that majority of the people who use chrome won't even mind about it. That's why they are so confident.
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O Iago

You may want to include Dooble web browser (textbrowser.github.io/dooble/) too, which is focused on privacy and security (pcworld.com/article/457239/rev…, techadvisor.com/article/715412…, codedocs.org/what-is/dooble)

A security-conscious browser that is effective but also restrictive

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🔗 David Sommerseth

I'm sorry, but this was a poor and bad click-bait.

First of all, this is from a reddit post over a month ago:
reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comm…

That Reddit post does not point at anything official from Google supporting that click-bait post. The closest you get is this post:
developer.chrome.com/blog/resu…

None of these posts which you highlight in that image confirms that Google will deliberately target uBlock Origin. It is a collateral damage, though, with the MV3 move; yes. But it is not targeting uBlock Origin explicitly - as that headline indicates.

I completely agree that using Google based services and products is highly risky in regards to privacy, including Google Chrome (and most likely Chromium). But at least try to stay true to the real facts and not hype a click-bait.

This kind of posting you do here more makes me sceptical to Tuta. This is poor propaganda. If you want to do this kind of stunts, at least know you provide the real hard facts.


Resuming the transition to Manifest V3  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

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waldi

And misleading as hell. Headline talks about uBlock Origin, text then talks solely about MV2 extensions.

No word that MV3 also supports almost all features in a fork called uBlock Origin Lite. They even have a handy list of the supported features.

No word if Firefox pledged to keep access to that one (open to abuse) API forever. So will they remain working or will the same problem show up in a short while again?

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lj·rk

Tor Browser isn't very secure though IIRC because it's often late to the patch party. So rather use it for exactly the things where you need TOR.

I wouldn't recommend Brave though, the boss is a prick who financially supports homophobic laws. And it's deep in the crypto bro scene. Also it's based on Blink and if they don't keep manually supporting Manifest v2 they will eventually remove it as well ^^'

I highly recommend just using Firefox and going through the settings to e.g., force-enable DoH and certificate transparency, clear cookies on quit (+allow list), disallow third party cookies, etc.