2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up

22 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by fl4tul4

Item id: 46399609

20 Comments

bobajeff

10 hours ago

Sure. But why make this a New Year's Resolution instead of a more open ended resolution? Also what make you think Mozilla would tamper with ublock origin?

fl4tul4

10 hours ago

Haven't you heard about the millions of dollars trying to 'convince' the CEO of doing so?

seba_dos1

4 hours ago

Yes, we heard the CEO saying that Mozilla is not going to take the millions of dollars for doing so.

There are some things to be angry at Mozilla, but I'm not sure how you can read the exact opposite of what was being said in this particular case.

tkel

9 hours ago

To all the people who seem to be invested in the actions of Mozilla: you should invest in an organizational structure that actually gives you a say in the company's actions: a consumer cooperative.

suprjami

10 hours ago

Great idea! Then you can move to a Chromium-based browser which has (checks notes) uBlock Origin Lite.

Oh.

throw-12-16

10 hours ago

I have no need for a PiHole currently, but I will likely set one up if that happens.

dogma1138

8 hours ago

PiHole is nearly useless these days. It doesn’t block the majority of the ads and DNS blacklisting on its own breaks websites.

The only way to do ad-blocking these days is with DOM manipulation.

somebehemoth

2 hours ago

This is not my experience at all. pihole blocks a massive amount of ads in my home. It is extremely rare that any website ever breaks.

DetectDefect

10 hours ago

DNS blocking is entirely insufficient compared to DOM interception and filtering, especially with domain fronting.

naishoya

10 hours ago

giving up Mozilla, or uBlock Origin? the title seems ambiguous for me

fl4tul4

10 hours ago

Just to be accurate then: "it" refers to Mozilla (all and any products).

It'll be the last straw for me.

BuckRogers

7 hours ago

The Adguard extension on Edge works really well. It replaced UBlock Origin for me. They actually try to push the limits of mv3 with workarounds. Which uBO refuses to do out of some sort of principle, hence the lite version. I do still use uBO Lite in iOS though. I don’t care about the lack of options and customization on that platform.

Madmallard

10 hours ago

I gave it up a year ago at least when they changed their terms of service to start selling your data to advertisers. They haven't been a privacy-focused company for at least that long now. They are lying to you.

someotherperson

10 hours ago

They're not just lying, they're killing the hopes of other independent browsers to take the reigns and the attention of the FOSS community. Mozilla is incredibly cancerous from this perspective: it's Google-backed controlled opposition.