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Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago (12 children)

At a lower efficiency than before, and a lot of stuff now won't get blocked because of the limit in definitions.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Define "lower efficiency", please.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now I'm curious how anyone could possibly have a non obvious definition of ad blocker efficiency.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Well, considering I'm using a different adblock and I just... Do not see any ads on the web, how do you measure the efficiency of uBlock to be better? Resource consumption?

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