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This basically amounts to "Firefox users become Chrome users" since the motivation (anger) is high and the barrier (setting up everything all over again) is same...

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Bryan Steele

@canadianbryan

May 4, 2019

Crazy, it's looking more like users will need both a Firefox update and re-install all extensions/addons. Yikes.

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Also, users like me who are in the Google ecosystem and were slowly gathering energy to move off Chrome and switch to Firefox, well, the grass isn't that much greener over there, is it? Back to inertia and apathy.

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I'm sure that other Chromium-based browsers like Brave are picking up a lot of users too. I personally stopped using Firefox on Android because they showed no sign of ever implementing a sandbox in the near future, let alone one with site isolation to stop Spectre leaks, etc.

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I haven't used it on the desktop since a decade ago, but I used it on Android for uBlock Origin. I'd rather just use a Chromium-based browser with comparable filtering built into it, but uBlock Origin is still significantly better than the built-in filtering engine options.

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Could you please give more details : why unblock origin is so much better than filtering lists? (AFAIR, it uses EasyList and EasyPrivacy)

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It's a particularly good implementation able to block more of the connections based on which content isn't needed, along with having some extensions to the filter syntax. It uses more than EasyList and EasyPrivacy. Other implementations aren't able to block as much of it.

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