Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • kautau@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    As someone who uses Vivaldi, which has a significant number of power user and customization features, the fact this is no longer a thing is fucking bonkers to me

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround-firefox#:~:text=Firefox Last updated: 6/6,https://mzl.la/3JM0ViX

    I can turn on an unsupported flag to make the UI a little cleaner for me

    To me, it’s wild that the browser for the user decided to deprecate an option like that. Since they dropped XUL support I have very few options on customizing my browser outside of a theme

    From there, I’d just point to:

    https://vivaldi.com/features/

    Firefox pulls in like 500 million dollars a year from Google. Barely any of those features exist in Firefox

    I started with Firefox. I used it from day one, when it was an experiment coming out of the Mozilla suite.

    I want to use it day to day so bad

    But it’s become “how do we chase chrome”

    And occasionally they get wins like this. And it no longer feels like

    “How can we be best?”