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So, with chrome (and most browsers based on chromium) preparing to completely block manifest v2 extensions here in a couple months, is there anyone that's done anything special to prepare? Move back to Firefox or one of it's derivatives, move to Brave, etc?
I personally am starting to transition my chromium and edge browsers over to Brave. I don't LIKE Brave, I don't like that they consistently show that their stated mission (security) is utter bilk, but...they have said they will be adding manifest v2 support back into the code, so it will be that much slightly more different from chromium base. Firefox will still be my default browser, of course.

I have to use Chrome for some stuff - especially Teams - but Firefox ESR is my normal go to. One or two of my wife's favourite sites are very bad on FF so she has to use Chrome for them too.

I have been experimenting with hblock which I discovered is installed in PeppermintOS. Its a system that generates a large hosts file blocking thousands of bad sites. I have not found any slow down in web access or anything else using it. It can be set up to update daily or more often I guess. Useful backstop to have even if ublock-origin is still OK on FF. Using lite on Chrome.

I have been using brave for quite some time now, mainly because it blocks more adverts by default than any other browser I have used, also I can block individual elements in web pages which can reduce clutter on some sites. I do find it better for my usage although I usually have firefox-esr installed as it comes with basic install when using Debian images, but very rarely fire it up.

I do not do any practical work on the web, so I am not much concerned about what works and what does not. I have never liked Chrome or its derivatives. On Linux I tend to use the browser that is part of the DE, Gnome Web(Epiphany) on Gnome and Konqueror on KDE, both of which are still based on webkit. If they do not cut it, I go to Firefox ESR. If none of those work, I just assume the developer does not want me to visit. If you have something you want me to see, then the burden is on you to make it useable, not on me to find the correct tool to make it visible.

Konqueror preferences allow you to add ad block lists which do a fair job. With Firefox I use ublock origin. Typically when I get to a site, I switch to reader mode, which dumps most of the ads. I rely on rss for a lot of news reading, which spares me for a good deal of pointless content. I use "private mode" a lot, which does not block any content, but I assume anyway that it stops a lot of tracking. (Although in honesty I think that is more hype than reality.)

“bin” wrote:I have been experimenting with hblock which I discovered is installed in PeppermintOS.

hblock is covered covered in the latest Fedora Magazine article. It covers both the Fedora repository for hblock as well as instructions for adding it to a Fedora installation.

<https://fedoramagazine.org/four-cool-ne ... ober-2024/>

It is a system wide hosts file replacement, so in theory anyway, this should block things in email, news reads and the like.