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> I see plenty of folks in here lamenting this release at all - in the hopes that the lack of it will push folks to Firefox. It won't. Those who care about this are already on Firefox

Huh? I'm going to switch to Firefox the second uBlock Origin stops working on Chrome. Otherwise I'll continue to use Chrome because it's a better browser (for me). I don't think I'm some rare minority here.

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> Huh? I'm going to switch to Firefox the second uBlock Origin stops working on Chrome.

uBlock Origin already blocks a lot better on Firefox than on Chrome.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

In practical terms I haven't seen any ads on Chrome so the blocking experience seems good enough. If you care about privacy Firefox definitely seems better.

I don't think you are either, but like the rest of that group , I expect that you'll keep using Chrome anyway. Because it's not like uBO will stop working, it'll just be a bit worse.

I dunno. The new version does not strongly affect end users (according to the devs) but there is a psychological barrier around switching from the full version to the minus version, which I think will cause me to switch to Firefox.

Even if the new version works now, Google are clearly going to tighten the vice over the next few years.

Hmm, I guess it depends on what this will look like long-term, but I'd expect that regular uBO will be "upgraded" to this version when MV2 is deprecated in Chrome for good, possibly including the name change (if allowed by Google).

Edit: ah, looking at gorhill's comments it looks like this is not intended to be the MV3 version of uBO, but just one that has minimal permissions. Then I guess uBO will migrate in its own time.

Ultimately it'll come down to the experience - if uBlock stops blocking some percentage of ads (because it's impossible under the extension), or triggers ad-blocker-blocker type stuff, I would be very quickly be moving to Firefox!

Either way, very thankful to the developers and community for making our web browsing experience so much better.

If it stops allowing cosmetic filtering, I will be looking for a different solution.

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