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Why did we stop using Firefox? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Can someone remind me why we stopped using Firefox a while back? There was some piece of news that broke everyone's trust, but I can't remember what Mozilla did. Was it a change in their user agreement?

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[–] 17 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Here, this should help. tl;dr: Google updated how Chrome security works and it broke apps like every adblocker at the time.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    It didn't break adblockers "at the time". It broke them intentionally. That was by design. Google is an advertising company dabbling in other areas. They don't want a browser that can properly block their primary revenue.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Understood, that's something to be expected by Google, but complete shit.

    However, adblockers still work these days - see Vivaldi, so they found a workaround?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    There is no workaround as most browsers download extensions from Google's extension repository and they don't allow extensions that don't follow their bullshit manifest. Ironically, only Opera has its own extensions repository/store that can do that. Others rely on their own built in adblockers.

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