The Chrome Canary in the coal mine just went silent, as uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions can no longer be re-enabled via flags
  • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    It’s just another source of telemetry for advertisers and won’t stop any of the existing methods of tracking.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      It’s a private alternative.

      I never said Mozilla was supreme dictator of the web and could force everyone to follow suit.

      “Bad things still exist so Mozilla shouldn’t develop good things” is not a rational take.

      • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        The problem is that it isn’t an alternative, it is an additional and it does not benefit users in any way.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          It is an alternative, and if it became more common in the industry it would be one of the best things to happen for user privacy in decades.