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Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

have a million prompts all over zillions of sites”.

I'm using Ghostery to automatically reject all of those. They pop-in and almost immediately disappear.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ghostery blocks trackers then sells data about your tracking blocking habits. It was the first tracker blocker I heard of but Privacy Badger is the better one nowadays.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not true since 2017 (and even before that it was kinda' disputed). The adblock part of the business went to Cliqz, a German privacy-focused browser, backed by Mozilla.

I have downvoted your comment because it's repeating a popular myth, nothing against you personally.