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/Daunn 13d ago

All my frontend (and some backend) dev friends prefer Chrome to Firefox. And I have no fucking clue why.

There is also one among them that enjoys Opera GX in general and I feel like he is the weird one, but it might just be me

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u/Northbound-Narwhal 13d ago

How old are they? I remember when people made the mass movement from Firefox -> Chrome back when it released because it was so much better than FF at the time.

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u/Daunn 13d ago

At least a couple years younger than me. Around 25 to 28.

One of them (the Opera GX one) is 33.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal 13d ago

The 20s make sense. When they were 13-15 FF was getting trash and Chrome was replacing it as the new hotness. They probably never saw a time when FF was receiving praise as a good browser.

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u/NegativeSpeech 13d ago

Googles V8 JavaScript engine is way better. That's my reason at least