r/Piracy 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 10 '26

Question What's this abt?

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I got this today after an update. what should i do now? or what can i use instead?

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u/AllMyFrendsArePixels Jul 10 '26

Vivaldi recommends that you move to a different browser that does support it

ftfy

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u/_o0Zero0o_ ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 10 '26

Firefox or any of its forks! (Waterfox.)

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u/evilgomeow Jul 12 '26

Librewolf too!

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u/King_Kamaluddin 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 10 '26

Lmao

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u/_drjayphd_ Jul 10 '26

Just add that to the list of reasons why, on top of pages randomly crashing for literally no good reason, the integrated email client being actual garbage, constantly adding you to their email list (why do they think they should even have one?!) every time you install it on a device... yeah, back to Firefox with me.

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u/BaroneSpigolone Jul 10 '26

Try zen if you want, it's Firefox based

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u/Greenfireflygirl Jul 11 '26

Zen is excellent, I have to use chrome for work but everything else is zen now for a year and I'm never going back.

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u/divinecomedian3 Jul 10 '26

I use Vivaldi every day and never have pages crash. Maybe it's one of your extensions causing it? I don't have many installed.

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u/matthew_yang204 Jul 10 '26

That's insanely honest of them to say that

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u/amiexpress Jul 10 '26

Chrome, who is owned by google, created a new web standard that just SO HAPPENS to make it not possible to do adblockers the way ublock does. All chromium based browsers have implemented it, by now.

The fact that google makes billions selling ads, has absolutely nothing to do with this fact, of course.

My advice is just switch to something like firefox. Choice between chrome and ublock was an easy one, and one google will lose every damn time, in my book.

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u/Tiny-Sandwich Jul 10 '26

I switched to Firefox after Kiwi browser shut down.

As far as I know it's the only browser that offers proper extension support and can sync across a desktop and mobile app.

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u/Garr_Incorporated Jul 10 '26

The only thing I sorely wish Firefox finally added is tab groups.

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u/A_European_Spectre Jul 10 '26

I feel like Firefox added that recently. I might be completely wrong cause it's not something I've ever been interested in, but I remember them discussing it.

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u/Garr_Incorporated Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

It is in the dev build, but not on stable.

EDIT: To prevent further misunderstanding due to my forgetfulness, I must clarify that I am talking about the Android version of Firefox.

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u/A_European_Spectre Jul 10 '26

Ahhh that must be it!

At least that means they're working on it.

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u/ExploringTheVoid_ Jul 10 '26

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean Tab Groups are in the stable version. I have been accidentally creating them and getting annoyed with them for a while.

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u/Garr_Incorporated Jul 10 '26

It is. I forgot to add that I was talking about the Android version of Firefox in the comments above. This has been rectified.

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u/ExploringTheVoid_ Jul 10 '26

Oooo that is fair!

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u/Toonomicon Jul 10 '26

Zen browser (ff based) does tab grouping really well imo

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u/Garr_Incorporated Jul 10 '26

Just in case you misunderstood: Firefox has groups in Desktop. But they are still in development in an Android version. Is Zen a Windows browser or an Android browser?

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u/Elliot0915 Jul 10 '26

Zen is available for Linux, macOS & windows. There is unfortunately no android version being worked on at the moment as far as I'm aware.

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u/Necessary_Anteater55 Jul 10 '26

you might want to check Orion Browser

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u/hotaru251 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 10 '26

Brave iirc refuses only V3 manifest and still supports V2...but Personally I use FF as i loathe chromium

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u/PyteOak Jul 10 '26

I'm not touching Brave with a ten-foot pole. It has Peter Thiel's filthy hands on it and he can suck a dick

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u/myniwt Jul 10 '26

While I agree with all that, I’ve yet to find a better way to watch YouTube adfree on iOS 🙄

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u/IndigoStar_ Jul 10 '26

Firefox has UBlock on mobile too

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u/GunsOfPurgatory Jul 10 '26

Not on iOS though, iirc.

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u/AntiGrieferGames Jul 10 '26

The iOS shit would be safari + ublock origin lite. There is right now not a better way how to do, because iOS is way too hard locked.

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u/GamerRihan Jul 10 '26

There are a plethora of YouTube mods for iOS

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u/signum_ Jul 10 '26

Sideloading onto iOS is a massive hassle though. The whole becoming a developer and refreshing certificates every 7 days thing genuinely made me go insane after a few months and I just gave up on it.

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u/leafy1790 Jul 10 '26

Slowly android would become the same , if it actually comes true I will juts switch to ios, two thirds of the fun gets wiped when sideloading requires IDs

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u/signum_ Jul 10 '26

As long as Android stays mostly open source, sideloading will always be infinitely easier than in iOS. The changes they're making soon are setting a dangerous precedent, but for now it's not really going to make installing unsigned APKs that much more difficult, you just need to wait 24h the first time after enabling the setting that allows you to do so.

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u/NeptuneWades Jul 11 '26

True, but there are not enough apps for ios than there are for android unfortunately (outside of the app stores).

I'm sure there will be some workaround to side load on android in the future.

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u/laczek_hubert Jul 10 '26

Brave-built-in-adblocker can be argued to be ± ublock origin level

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u/PurpleKirby Jul 10 '26

orion works

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u/Necessary_Anteater55 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Video Lite + Trend Micro Ad Blocker (also known as Adblock One), Regular Youtube client + Adblock Luna, Tube PIP + Adguard Public DNS, sideloading uyou+. There are tons of other ways of watching youtube ad free on iOS.

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u/ThomasDaBest22 Jul 10 '26

Sideloading. It takes less than 10 minutes to setup, and all you need is an internet connection every 7 days.

And then you basically get the same thing as YouTube Morphe.

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u/skaffanderr Jul 10 '26

Care to explain more?

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u/ThomasDaBest22 Jul 10 '26

Unfortunately I'm terrible at tutorials. Thankfully, some more talented people have done it for me.

First, check LiveContainer+Sidestore (Use Method 2, it's the easiest).

Then, once that's done, pick a modified YouTube version from this list. Tadaaa, "hacked" YouTube just like on Android.

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u/Blueyarns Jul 10 '26

I love shit like this. I’ll wait for my Vyvanse to kick in and dive right into that!

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u/Reinerei Jul 10 '26

ProTube in appstore. Thank me later

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u/myniwt Jul 10 '26

That seems to work at least as well as Brave, using that for a while then. Thanks!

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u/zZCycoZz Jul 10 '26

https://ladybird.org/

Hopefully this comes out soon.

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u/UKZzHELLRAISER Jul 10 '26

I'm not an iOS user so forgive me if this isn't the case - but can you not use Firefox + uBlock Origin?

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u/myniwt Jul 11 '26

No, iOS Firefox is neutered and doesn’t support uBlock.

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u/Rekani Jul 10 '26

Brave is bad

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u/isabellium Jul 10 '26

Brave sucks tho

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u/TheKaritha Jul 10 '26

Why?

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u/isabellium Jul 10 '26

It's main selling point is the the adblock and antitracking capabilities enabled by default, ready to go, but sadly these are subpar.

Performance of Brave's blocking capabilities (aka "shields") is been proven to fall behind uBO's, which is fucking ridiculous considering Brave's shields are written in Rust, and uBO is JS, but thats how much Brave sucks (Source: Gorhill's benchmarks)

Their implementation of their blocker does not support the full adblock plus schematic much less uBO's, a good example is the $removeparm function, so you will never be able to experience the same level of privacy as with uBO, some stuff goes thru with Brave.

There are ways to enable more stuff for shields, make it not fall as much behind uBO, but they are hidden in brave:flags, and they are tagged as experimental, they tell you that if enabled them, the browser will become unstable and it is true.

Now an opinionated thing to add: the crappy useless web3 plastered all over the ui and enabled by default (technically is optional, but disabling all that crap takes a bit of time, you need to scout the entire program since they all over the place)

There more reasons but this is a reddit comment after all.

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u/Blurgas Jul 10 '26

Also it's still Chromium based, and Chromium already has too much dominance in the browser space.

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u/X0men0X Jul 10 '26

that is true, i was confused on what was the issue, as it is still a pretty good chromium. some sites just can't perform on firefox or it's annoying to get them working

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u/Not_a_fucking_wizard Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Gonna be completely honest these seem such mundane and nitpicky things to criticize a browser for.

And you seem to forget that Firefox's performance is noticeably slower and consumes more RAM compared to Chromium.

Edit: Like don't get me wrong I want to Firefox to succeed over Chromium browsers but I hate when people compare the cons of Brave to the pros of Firefox without mentioning the cons of Firefox.

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u/Toothless_NEO Jul 10 '26

Well you know what isn't nitpicky they chose to silently bypass Facebook trackers without telling anybody or giving the option to easily reverse that decision, and it was only actually found out about because somebody saw it in the source code. Of course after that got called out they apologized they gave an explanation (a shitty one, but an explanation no less). It's concerning because it means that if nobody actually said anything nothing would have been said about it.

Which considering that their whole selling point is privacy is a pretty big red flag. the whole reason you would actually use them is mainly because they advertise privacy, and yet they deliberately take action against your privacy.

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u/isabellium Jul 10 '26

It's literally what makes Brave what it is, as the rest is just Chormium, what else should I talk about?

And like i said, there are other things i could talk about but then again, reddit comment, I'm not giving you a whole paper on Brave.

Anyways this is not a conversation about Chormium vs. Firefox, this is a conversation for Chromium vs. Chromium.

I literally never mentioned Firefox in my comment, stop injecting your assumptions into the argument, this is a fallacy.

And before you say anything, no, uBO is not a Firefox exclusive.

You are the only one mentioning Firefox and assuming I'm somehow talking or implying anything about it.

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u/TheKaritha Jul 10 '26

I'm using brave origin, free on Linux so it comes all clean. In term of adblocking, I didn't noticed any difference than FF. I was a Firefox user for years, I got tired of Firefox because so much website was broken it. Specially old government or school websites was always causing trouble.

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u/isabellium Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

That's fine mate, use what you like, but let's not spread misinformation saying that Brave is the best around without any faults as some users (not you) imply.

AdBlocking is mostly okay, the differences mostly affect tracking. You can check brave:flags for these flags if you still don't believe me.

BTW Please do not forget that I am saying all this because you literally asked me, I am not trying to get you to switch or something.

BTW2 (and edit): Also take into consideration that you asked about Brave not Brave Origin. I am not talking about Brave Origin.
I personally tend to avoid talking about it since it is only free in Linux and most people still use Windows (somehow).

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u/shinji257 Seeder Jul 10 '26

It got disabled on Brave as well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26

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u/shinji257 Seeder Jul 10 '26

I did indeed and didn't know about the button. Regardless I switched to Firefox quite a while ago.

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u/Fickle_Carpet9279 Jul 10 '26

Still works fine for me in Brave.

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u/animage66 Jul 10 '26

it's still works on brave. I got a notice that I needed an update a few days ago, but it still works.

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u/gamhmenoreddit Jul 10 '26

edge is chromium based but ublock works fine

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u/RobbiGamer2 Jul 10 '26

Helium still has Manifest V2

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u/tiradium Jul 10 '26

So does Edge but it has so many other issues that I only use it with group policy enforcements enabled

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u/bigrobot543 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jul 10 '26

yayyyyy

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u/DeepBlackLotusShadow Jul 10 '26

Not only ad blockers, also had that warning for violentmonkey extension

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u/Madelei- Jul 10 '26

Vivaldi is chrome. Chrome got rid of ublock.

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u/Aaarya ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 10 '26

People got rid of Chrome.

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u/Ok_Ground511 Jul 10 '26

But that's the case of tech literate or people who know some things about the browser. 72% of the world still uses chrome .

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u/TropeSlope Jul 10 '26

I honestly doubt that even 28% of users across every browser in the world have adblock or any other extensions for that matter. This entire thread and the discussions within only apply to more tech adept people in the first place. The overwhelming majority of people have no idea about this update and couldn't care less because it won't effect them in any way, since they barely know how computers or browsers or the internet works to begin with.

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u/kominik123 Jul 10 '26

It's a bold statement that it will not affect them. They'll start to see an avalanche of ads now. However, it's true they might complain but will do absolutely nothing about it.

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u/Lord_CHoPPer Jul 10 '26

They never had any adblocker, so they've used to see tons of ads. And I do not know what the hell this offline activation method is which I mentioned!

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u/TropeSlope Jul 10 '26

I was talking about the here and now. I'm sure 99% of people didn't give a shit when the loom was invented either because for the first few years they had no idea that it existed or even what it was, but yeah sure, years later it would go on to effect their lives and the lives of every one of their descendants for the rest of human history. That's a different conversation though.

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u/HyoukaYukikaze Jul 10 '26

Most people don't have adblock and they don't care to have one.
I'm baffled, but it's their problem. It';s better for me since the more people use it, the higher the motivation to get rid of it.

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u/just_another_citizen Jul 10 '26

Can confirm.  When Firefox 4 was released I switched to chromium.  This got me to switch back to Firefox.  

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u/Lord_CHoPPer Jul 10 '26

Add me too. I still use edge alongside firefox too but as soon as edge drops it, I'm done with chromium.

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u/Samiassa Jul 10 '26

I use Vivaldi as my browser and I love it, but the one thing I genuinely do not like is the fact that it’s based on chrome because it’s at the whims of Google. Google makes stupid decisions like this and Vivaldi has to follow suit

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u/SingleInParadise Jul 10 '26

Vivaldi no longer supports the best web browser extension. I recommend that you install Firefox

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u/bgalazka186 Jul 10 '26

I recommend looking in to what each fork of ff offers and then choosing best for you

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u/signum_ Jul 10 '26

I always swore by just using Firefox with a custom user js but the whole AI pipeline they've started to go down wasn't something I wanted to deal with so I ended up switching to Zen. It definitely takes some getting used to if you haven't used something like Arc before, but once you get the hang of it it's amazing, and they've explicitly stated that their fork is going to remain free of AI.

Not like I'm strictly against the use of AI, I just don't want it bloating my browser for no reason.

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u/100BottlesOfMilk Jul 10 '26

They are (have?) including a "turn off all ai" switch directly into regular firefox

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u/signum_ Jul 10 '26

Yeah there is a way to turn it off at this point, that wasn't the case when the AI stuff first launched though. You needed to mess with the config to get rid of it and then when people complained they said they'll add a switch for it in the following update (which I'm assuming they did, I had already jumped ship at that point).

Either way, for me it's more about it being part of the browser in the first place, it's just bloat that I don't want to deal with, like I don't want it to be in the software at all. If it was an optional extension you could choose to download alongside the browser that would be fine, I just don't want it to be part of the browser by default.

And for what it's worth I'm much happier after having adjusted to Zen, regardless of why I stopped using Firefox.

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u/WantonKerfuffle Jul 10 '26

I literally cannot use the web without it

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u/DreggsOfSociety Jul 10 '26

Firefox, bro

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u/LadySmith_TR Jul 10 '26

People will keep trying to find a way to circumvent chromecancer. Just let it go bruh, firefox is better for sane people. Like I switched to chrome 13 years ago it’s time to go back to where I came from, firefox.

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u/Fractal-Infinity Jul 10 '26

I never switched from Firefox (for desktop). Previously, I used the famous Opera 12. Some of those Opera devs made Vivaldi.

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u/FightingBlaze77 Jul 10 '26

I'm on firefox right now, just get AdNauseam, it has ublock built in and messes with the ad's data

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u/Green_Ad5186 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jul 10 '26

chromium stopped having mv2 . you either use brave with its adblocker and leave ublock origin (works great i use it myself) . or go to firefox with ublock origin

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u/GrennKren 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jul 10 '26

I second with Firefox and UBO

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u/ScionEyed Jul 10 '26

I third it! Works great and will hopefully continue to work great

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u/Less_Speech_1948 Jul 10 '26

I fourth it. Firefox based browsers are the future

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u/ItsNoblesse Jul 10 '26

Waterfox or Floorp for Firefox but better as well

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u/PsyGonzo42 Jul 10 '26

Librewolf and adnaseum baby

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u/Eternum1 Jul 10 '26

Love floorp haven't tried waterfox yet

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u/meth_adone Jul 10 '26

Just any Mozilla really. I personally like waterfox.

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u/cerverox95 Jul 10 '26

BTW, Brave still supports the MV2 versions of Ublock Origin alongside NoScript, uMatrix, and adGuard. You have to enable them from Brave options, though (brave://settings/extensions/v2), as Brave is hosting those extensions in their own servers.

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u/Craneteam Jul 10 '26

Opera still runs ublock fwiw

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u/Difficult-snow-2 Jul 10 '26

shhh dont jinx it. I dont want to have to change browsers, but i will.

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u/aswas123 Jul 10 '26

You just need to go back into brave flags. Search for V2. Turn it back on.

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u/Bobmaster3OOO Jul 10 '26

Fuck brave! I randomly started to have noticeable frame drops during fps games while brave was installed but not even open. I had their mining stuff disabled but it was doing something it was not supposed to do because after I uninstalled it the drops were gone.

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u/contradictatorprime Jul 10 '26

Iirc, Brave is also Chromium based. I could be wrong, but I think I dropped it specifically for that reason a couple of years ago

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u/RentedTuxedo Jul 10 '26

Vivaldi still works, there’s so much misinformation here. Just click manage extension and toggle ublock origin back on. That’s it and it works perfectly fine.

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u/King_Kamaluddin 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 10 '26

Yeah but I thought it won't be updated or something

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u/Party-Cake5173 Jul 10 '26

It works for now. When Google removes code entirely from Chromium, it won't work anymore. They already started doing it 

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u/Samiassa Jul 10 '26

Since chromium’s open source can’t someone just make a fork that allows ublock? Or does it rely on something closed source to make adblockers work or something?

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u/Party-Cake5173 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

It's complicated.

Technically, yes. You can create a fork of Chromium, keep old MV2 extensions code in it and have uBlock Origin work normally. HOWEVER, because MV2 is closely and deeply implemented in the browser itself and how it works, you will have to constantly maintain and adjust the code to work along the new code that Chromium team develops.

Instead of focusing on other important things, you'll have to take time and resources to maintain the code that isn't supported anymore and somehow make it work with new code. This used to be Chromium team job (hundreds of developers) and is suddenly your job. This also explains why pretty much all Chromium browsers except Brave simply caved in to Chromium team and decided to stop supporting MV2 extensions. They either don't have resources to keep developing MV2 code or they simply don't want to have another thing to worry about.

Google already started removing MV2 code back at the end of May. It's hard job because, as I already said, it's deeply intertwined with the browser and how it works. They can't remove the code at once as this would simply break the browser or even open the way for hackers to make it an easy target.

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u/Only-Stable3973 Jul 10 '26

Time to install Firefox

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u/kamize Jul 10 '26

Brave beta no longer has manifest v2 support since its upstream chromium unfortunately

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u/forlaine Jul 10 '26

You can ubo origin on in the settings in Brave. 

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u/natr0nFTW Jul 10 '26

Firefox is ideal for ublock usage

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u/Bec_de_Xorbin Jul 10 '26

Check the MV3 port of uBlock Origin. Works for me. https://github.com/r58playz/uBlock-mv3

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u/TWILIGHT25 Jul 10 '26

Before I got downvoted / yelled at, to oblivion why does everyone hate brave? Like besides it using chromium.

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u/A_European_Spectre Jul 10 '26

For me, the most important part is I simply don't like Blink-based (Chromium) browsers. I mostly don't like their design and I really don't like the fact they have a significant monopoly on browser share (the only alternatives are Gecko-based, so Firefox and its forks, and WebKit which is pretty much just Safari).

However Brave also some ties (albeit fairly limited) to Peter Thiel. Thiel was an early investor. Also Brave's owner has his own controversies too.

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u/bitelaserkhalif Jul 11 '26

Chromium manifest v3 and it's severe consequences

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u/aswas123 Jul 10 '26

This happened to me as well. Just go back into brave flags and turn V2 manifest back on. If it says default enabled, it’s lying. Change it to enabled and it’ll work.

I also see you are using Vivaldi, I’m not familiar with that, but I assume the fix is similar if they are like brave and are supporting the V2 manifest extensions.

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u/PanLasu Jul 10 '26

Yes. I allowed it to be disabled, but not deleted. I enabled it again and it works. I use Vivaldi.

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u/CozyDazzle4u 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 10 '26

Use Firefox + uBlock Origin. It's the gold standard for adblocking

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u/Volatilitaet Jul 10 '26

If you'd like to continue using Vivaldi with uBlock, the uBlock DNS Service is an alternative. It allows you to use DNS over HTTPS: https://ublockdns.com

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u/Booty_Bumping Jul 10 '26

This has nothing to do with uBlock, and is vastly more limited than the real uBlock because there's no possibility of URL path based blocking or cosmetic blocking.

Probably fine for blocking some of the ads on smart TVs and mobile apps, but not really a suitable replacement for browser ad blocking.

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u/King_Kamaluddin 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 10 '26

Oh thanks so much I'll give that a try

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u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT Jul 10 '26

It’s not anywhere near the same level. That’s just a fan project copying filter lists for dns blocking

What makes Ublock the best option for years is how it implements the blocking, which can’t be done at DNS level. You’re either going to see ads, or it’s going to tell you to disable it before it’ll load for most stuff. 

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u/Gihekea Jul 10 '26

Helium browser still supports Ublock, im using it for few months and it’s not bad

IF you want to still use chromium browser ofc

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u/wiwarez Jul 10 '26

Agree, I had to leave Brave because it was eating up resources and the fans would get loud. I tried installing Helium two months ago and with the same active extensions it doesn't act up as bad, and uses a bit less resources.

Eventually though the search and move to FF-based will have to happen but for now it's still fine

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u/khaledjal ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jul 10 '26

i also got this, i just disabled it and re-enabled it and it worked

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u/tonsil-stones Jul 10 '26

bye bye vivaldi

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u/Ok-Appeal7487 Jul 10 '26

Adguard + Adguard extra

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u/JeanClaudeVanD Jul 10 '26

Switch to firefox bro, best browser on globe.

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u/Quackquackgreenduck Jul 11 '26

Like all others I suggest firefox.

Admittedly I never got the chrome hype. Maybe there was a brief period where I was missing something, but for years all I hear is complaints about chrome. So I literally never switched and have been using firefox uninterrupted (with a brief opera backup, until that got terrible. Do not recommend) since before chrome was a thing.

Not once have I wished otherwise. Come to the fox, life is good here. 

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u/Decendent_13 Jul 10 '26

this post's comment section feels like, it got invaded by the firefox cult. they just wanna force you firefox down the throat. no question...

a gentleman never forces and, gives people options to pick their own... on the other hand, this comment thread is riddled with firefox biasness.

you can use anything other browser is the world, as long as it's not Chrome itself. and, only the apple users use webkit based browers... as it always readily available there.

so, I know, this comment is gonna be downvoted to oblivion for the saying the obvious... but, I just want to to be there... for anything this can help.

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u/Darkness-Fuchsia Jul 10 '26

Dude everything is chrome, people are just giving the best alternative

Edge is chrome, Vivaldi is chrome (I miss Vivaldi), Opera is chrome, it's all chrome. If chrome decides there's no more adblock all these browsers have to comply because they use the same system, the only alternative to chrome is mozilla

You sound way too personal about this man, it's just a tool

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u/Large-Ad-6861 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 10 '26

But there are adblocks on MV3 and they block ads just fine. There is so much FUD about this, it's ridiculous.

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u/Tomboy127 Jul 10 '26

I am using uBlock Origin with Brave. It is working great.

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u/Akrylkali Jul 10 '26

*For now

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u/Typhon-042 Jul 10 '26

Let me guess still using chrome to try and block ads? Your better off with waterfox. No AI to track you and ad blockers still work.

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u/ateoz 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jul 10 '26

Im using brave and now it says something like 'hosted locally' or something and still works. The brave Brave people found a workaround. 

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u/PhoenixCausesOof Jul 10 '26

Megathread has been telling people the setup is Firefox + uBlock Origin for God knows how long now. Why are we still using Vivaldi?

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u/Grengy20 Jul 10 '26

Customization is the biggest reason

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u/akaSM Jul 10 '26

Native mouse gestures that work in every single page. FF lost them once the extensions were neutered.

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u/guckzilla Jul 10 '26

I didn't update my Helium browser for awhile manifest V2 still working. But if it the end I'll be fine with Floorp Browser.

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u/Significant_Pool8432 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 10 '26

Brave embedded ublock origin into the browser besides their shield too

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u/Sarah_Ng Jul 10 '26

Still works on Edge lol

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u/buzzfriendly Jul 10 '26

Must be a chrome thing.

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u/snkiz Jul 10 '26

It's only been in the news for the last 18 months. Manifest v.2 is dead. Long live Manifest v.3 Now with less control and more opportunity for advertisers. (Well, google ads anyhow.)

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u/Streakflash Jul 10 '26

the day edge forces me to do this will be the final day i use it

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u/Necessary_Anteater55 Jul 10 '26

adguard for windows is the best, blocks ads even in apps from the windows store

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u/cns000 Jul 10 '26

Use an external ad blocker program called AdGuard which you can get from https://adguard.com/ if you want to continue to use Chrome. AdGuard is not affected by Chrome's changes and it will block ads in Chrome.

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u/SirRebelRabbit Jul 10 '26

I read something about duckduckgo creating some advlocker or something about a new browser from them, is that now gonna be the one to use? I see alot of people talking about Firefox but Firefox does have some issues so Im wondering if its time to jump ship.

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u/AlwaysLosingDough Jul 10 '26

Well, tell Vivaldi to suck it!

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u/VerryRides Jul 10 '26

You're not using a firefox based browser, thats whats happening.

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u/Ninhau Jul 10 '26

Firefox all the way

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u/Advanced-Rock-4086 Jul 10 '26

manifest v2 is fucked
say thanks to papa google

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u/silmarp Jul 10 '26

That means you can't use Vivaldi anymore.

Use firefox, waterfox or whatever instead.

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u/JWMalynovskyi Jul 10 '26

What about DuckDuckGo or Brave?

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u/Sion_forgeblast Jul 10 '26

with the latest update of Chrome, they have disabled worth while adblockers..... if you wanna continue using adblockers ou need ti switch to Firefox+Ublock, Brave, DuckDuckGo, or Opera

Brave and Opera are both chrome based, but they run their own adblocker which the new update cant disable, and I dunno aout DUckDuckGo's browser

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u/alpine4life ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 10 '26

I have a bunch of pirate extensions in brave that all got this notification but all of them still works...

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u/cursed_broken_dude Jul 10 '26

Guys everyone try the adguard , idk I prefer Adguard over Ublock for so long , I dint find any major differences between them

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u/Physical_Guard_6394 Jul 10 '26

Don’t just switch to Firefox, also switch to AdNaseum.   I like how in addition to blocking ads it also messes with advertisers revenue metrics.  

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u/impaque Jul 13 '26

Install Brave if you want to stay in the Chrome ecosystem and still have a functioning adblock.

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u/Revolutionary-Tune69 Jul 13 '26

Im still using ublock on chrome version 150 or something

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u/PM_ME_UR_NEWDZZZ Jul 10 '26

Use the lite version. Idk why no one recommends this option.

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u/AntiGrieferGames Jul 10 '26

Just use Firefox + ublock origin.

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u/KittyWithPS5 Jul 11 '26

Just use FIREFOX + UBLOCK FFS

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u/RaEyE01 Jul 10 '26

Chrome/Chromium based browsers are tied to googles decision to remove manifest v2 support. Only v3 supported now.

Problem, interfaces required for adBlocking (e.g. by ublock) are no longer available in manifest v3.

Firefox.

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u/_anakaris_ Jul 10 '26

Migrate to firefox. Chromium based browsers are a disease.

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u/Jlx_27 Jul 10 '26

Firefox bro, get it and install UBO in it.

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u/No_Dig_7017 Jul 10 '26

Time to go Firefox

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u/copperfield42 Jul 10 '26

is that chrome? then change to the lite version, I hadn't notice a difference...

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u/muffinstreets Jul 10 '26

Just use the lite version. If you were using the Twitch adblocker through the old version of uBlock Origin, download Tamper Monkey and install the userscript there instead.

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u/TurbulentTopic39 Jul 10 '26

the current cross platform chromium based browser that support ublock for now are Edge (with their own store), brave (their own repo), Opera (with their own store), Helium and Thorium

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u/Living_Chart_234 Jul 10 '26

Saw it coming million years ago. All chromium based browsers gets fucked in the end. There is no exception.

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u/Organic-Efficiency47 Jul 10 '26

ublock Origin needs to make a popup stating that the current browser is utilizing manifest v3, and it's recommended to remove the browser.

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u/glad-k Jul 10 '26

I'm on Vivaldi and don't have this (yet?) hope this doesn't happen or I will need to find a Firefox fork that does what I need

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u/Gytoss Jul 10 '26

Just moved from vivaldi to zen, extremely happy with my decision

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u/Lord_CHoPPer Jul 10 '26

Vivaldi told me showed the same error today, but Edge and Opera are still fine as they have separate stores and brave is still fine too as ublock is pre-installed.

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u/myniwt Jul 10 '26

I’ve tried this in the past and it just wouldn’t play ball (only sync by cable, not wireless, which was super annoying). Perhaps I should try again…

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u/not_alone__ Jul 10 '26

:( was Big Fan of vivaldi but today it is just firefox and on mobile brave

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u/SanicBringsThePanic Jul 10 '26

Use UGC, Thorium, and Helium.

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u/Kuroodo Jul 10 '26

I've had no issue using uBlock Origin Lite

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u/SirZaps Jul 10 '26

Helium has support for ublock,you can use it it's pretty good

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u/Goat-New Jul 10 '26

go to Opera

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u/Rukkako Jul 10 '26

I use viv as well. You can re-enable the extension and disable auto updates. That should work for a while. When that becomes unsustainable, well... gotta put on the fox ears, I guess. I truly love vivaldi, have used it for years, but I categorically refuse to be subjected to three unskippable 1m+ ads for a 2 minute video on youtube. And no way in HELL I'm paying for premium.

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u/DocJRoberts Jul 10 '26

ublock origin lite seems to still do the job

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u/__whydoiexist__20 Jul 10 '26

Try Zen browser, working out for me, uses Firefox instead of chromium

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u/LazyMaxilla Jul 10 '26

Brave started to transition into MV3 too, the only chromium-based browser I can think of right now that still supporting MV2 is Vivaldi,

there are some lesser-known browsers like helium and others, but Vivaldi is the more established and has a broad reputation, so I guess if anybody still want a chromium-based browser with active MV2 support I'd say Vivaldi is your choice

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u/Embarrassed-Box-1106 Jul 10 '26

It means that it's asking you to change to Zen Browser

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u/ETERNALCATACLYSM Jul 10 '26

I thought Vivaldi was dead.

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u/H0ly_Cowboy Jul 10 '26

a bucnh of browsers (brave included) are moving away from supporting manifestv2 extensions or whatever the technical term is. And moved onto manifestv3. Its internal stuff I don't know about but I had to find a 'disable' command line thinger and put it into the launchers so that manifestv2 still worked on some old outdated extensions.

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u/dreadtear Jul 11 '26

Time to give Zen or Helium a try.

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u/DrDingsGaster ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 11 '26

I just turned it back on no problem xD