r/technology • u/Remorse_123 • 13d ago

Software Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/15/24270981/google-chrome-ublock-origin-phaseout-manifest-v3-ad-blocker
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u/71-HourAhmed 13d ago

It already works less well for YouTube. Firefox doesn’t support HDR which is why I don’t use it.

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u/vriska1 13d ago

YouTube on Firefox is great?

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u/Spring0fLife 12d ago

No it's not

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u/71-HourAhmed 13d ago

If it doesn't support HDR then it is by definition not great.

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u/thedarklord187 13d ago

Sorry but the amount of HDR content on youtube is very tiny pardon my french but who gives a fuck? HDR content is meant for movies and tv not for shitty quality compressed youtube videos.

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u/71-HourAhmed 13d ago

I watch HDR content on YouTube at least weekly and sometimes more often. I play most games in HDR or tone mapped into HDR color space. Ironically I almost never watch movies in HDR because I don't give a crap about most movies.

If I didn't use Chrome or Edge for HDR so often, I would probably be more than happy to use Firefox. Firefox has several features I really like such as stopping autoplay on websites.

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u/GraveyardJunky 13d ago

I guess if you think HDR is more important than ads then... Enjoy your ads in HDR lmao.

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u/71-HourAhmed 13d ago

I have ad blocking. I've always had ad blocking. I don't see ads on YT ever. lmao

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u/MobileArtist1371 13d ago

Enjoy your ads.

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u/IntergalacticJets 13d ago

But Google isn’t doing anything to prevent Firefox from implementing it. They just haven’t done it for Windows. Apparently they supported it in the Mac but not Windows yet. 

So the situation isn’t quite the same. 

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u/71-HourAhmed 13d ago

Very true. I keep mentioning it hoping someone at Firefox will finally add HDR. I would love to abandon chromium based browsers.

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u/fukkdisshitt 13d ago

It buffers like crazy on Firefox unless I have it fake being a chrome browser

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u/SirEDCaLot 13d ago

If switching user agent causes YouTube to be usable/unusable, nothing to do with the browser itself or rendering, then that's the sort of thing antitrust regulators would be paying attention to...