I’m a firefox/ublock origin user, but this has huge implications for the web moving forward
same
2-3 years ago I remember there being some talk about this in various forums. I’m really not surprised given that Google is a trash company. I hate how Google alone can just decide what goes into a Web Standard and what a Browser has to do to be “usable”.
I myself took a shot at writing my own web browser from scratch. Didn’t get that far into it. I lost interest because when I saw all the bullshit that a web browser has to support to be even semi-usable all my enthusiasm went down the drain. It’s literally impossible for a single person, or even a small group to make a quote on quote “usable web browser” from scratch. At this point it would be easier to just throw the current web in the trash and start over, honestly.
writing your own web browser in this day and age seems impossible for a small team of people, let alone one person
We’d be better off drafting and experimenting with our own / existing counter standards than trying to make new implementations at this point.
Even giant like Microsoft didn’t dare and just went with Chromium. I admire you :)
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Bruhh, say it ain’t sooo 😭. Eternal respect to comrade ad block for keeping my internet experience just somewhat more enjoyable.
Funny that I just noticed this here, right after I posted my own thoughts on the matter: https://lemmy.ml/post/308999
TLDR: Mv3’s
declarativeNetRequestis a really good replacement for a subset of uBlock Origin’s functionality. If it didn’t herald an end to privileged extensions then I’d welcome it. But Google gotta Google; can’t take one step forward without two steps back.There are some valid reasons to use Blink; for those use-cases, I’d love to see a “de-Braved-Brave” fork of Brave that removes all the “cryptography-verified, decentralized pyramid scheme” nonsense but keeps the great content blocking.
I don’t trust anything from Brave; whole thing seems like a MLM to me.
Second best option (after a revolution that eliminates google, I can only dream) is that a large enough org decides to write a different rendering engine so google doesn’t have a monopoly.
I agree about Brave which is why I said I’d like to see a fork that removes all the cryptocurrency nonsense.
I think that among the indie crowd (not large orgs/corps) the best we can do is test our sites in other non-mainstream engines and stick to standards. The SerenityOS browser, Servo, and NetSurf are cirrently maintained; there’s also KHTML, Hv3, etc. Supporting one or two fully independent options in addition to the big three could go a long way.
Hv3 was weird, couldn’t understand how to make it work
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