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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (www.pcworld.com)
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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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[–] 21 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Sometimes I think it was a mistake to let the programs we primarily use to view text and images become bloated virtual machines that execute megabytes of arbitrary code with every page load.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Well, like many other things: it's not so much a "we" as it is a "them".

    But maybe we should reboot the whole navigation thing?

    https://geminiprotocol.net/

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Cool, but why did they have to name it that?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It came before bard was renamed to gemini. Kind of like people who were referred to as Isis before you know, Isis.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Oh. I don't get your example, by the way (who those original "people" were).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Some people knew people named Isis bro. I did.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Hmm, interesting. That makes me think of someone whose last name was literally "Gay" before gayness as a news headliner broke out, I think right around the turn of the century. Her family changed their name to "Gray" as a result.

    I wonder if a name change might have been or even might be helpful for that person you know.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was on dial-up internet well after most people had moved to dedicate higher speed connections. It was very obvious then that websites were just piling more crap in and I was thinking about how much of a problem that trend was going to be for our hardware. That wasn’t even considering how much those companies would be dipping into our time, sanity, and privacy.

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