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Blaze (he/him) to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com • 4 months ago

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

www.neowin.net

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Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

www.neowin.net

Blaze (he/him) to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com • 4 months ago
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Microsoft is now in the process of turning off Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge, such as uBlock Origin. However, not everything is lost at this point.
  • @madame_gaymes@programming.dev
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    20•4 months ago

    Who the fuck even uses Edge?

    • @protonslive@lemm.ee
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      9•4 months ago

      Think about all offices, businesses and personal computers of people who don’t deeply know about computers

      • @madame_gaymes@programming.dev
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        2•4 months ago

        I was kinda more referencing people on Lemmy. I know there are a lot of people that are clueless. I have several users that use Edge and it’s a constant battle.

    • @Jhex@lemmy.world
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      For some reason, the asshats in my company are pushing for it as default

      • @madame_gaymes@programming.dev
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        3•4 months ago

        🤮

        • @Jhex@lemmy.world
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          🤮 indeed

    • katy ✨
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      as far as a chromium skin goes, it’s far better than chrome - especially with tab grouping, vertical tabs, and profile link handling.

    • @salacious_coaster@infosec.pub
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      3•4 months ago

      As a sysadmin in a Microsoft shop, it has a lot of management features that I like. Users generally love Chrome and hate Firefox (for some reason, I dunno) so Edge was a good compromise while it still supported ublock.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      Normies too lazy to install something different.

      • @Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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        3•4 months ago

        Normies don’t use adblockers though. So this doesn’t change a thing, lol.

        • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          Hence why normies use Edge, they didn’t change a thing.

    • Da Cap’n
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      2•4 months ago

      The only reason I even have it installed is to test websites (developer).

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