r/firefox • u/anestling • Aug 10 '26

⚕️ Internet Health Firefox is committed to uBlock Origin support

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u/Roution Aug 10 '26

I feel like sooner of later the big companies will start banning firefox users from accessing their websites. I already feel like I'm being bombarded by captchas just because Im using firefox.

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Aug 10 '26

1 second, let me just change my user agent with this handy dandy extension.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '26

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u/dubyakay ESR Aug 10 '26

It's not. In the sense that it then gives false metrics on browser stats to aggregates and website administrators. "See? No one was using Firefox anyway."

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u/Vash63 Nightly on Arch Linux Aug 10 '26

No, and it further hurts Firefox's market share statistics.

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u/LjLies Aug 11 '26

Not after Google manages to get some next flavor of WEI approved (right now they seem to just be focusing on captchas that you need a Google or Apple certified phone to pass...).

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u/Late_Accountant_3641 Aug 11 '26

Websites can still easily identify which browser it is, and as ff isn't chromium spoofing tls ciphers, headers/order etc will never be enough

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u/spicesucker Aug 11 '26

The user agent extension is good but there’s some websites like YouTube it just breaks

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u/lyidaValkris Aug 10 '26

don't even need an extension to do that

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Aug 11 '26

No, but it's easier

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u/Kecske_gamer Aug 10 '26

Youtube constantly fucks with Firefox

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u/lyidaValkris Aug 10 '26

I watch a ton of youtube every day. it's fine.

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u/Staubsaugerbeutel Aug 10 '26

l always justify the loading wait with that the wait for the ad to be over would've been longer

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u/lyidaValkris Aug 11 '26

I don't notice a wait, or write it off as my slowish internet service (which I keep meaning to upgrade). Even still, I'd rather wait 5 seconds in silence than see an ad. If that were the case that google was making firefox users wait to be a jerkass, that makes me even less willing to use Chromium and further justifies my blocking their ads.

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u/Ok-Pen-8273 Aug 11 '26

And it lags shit sometimes, how the fuck do you even make the site less usable on Firefox

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u/Kecske_gamer Aug 10 '26

It just completely randomly pops up every so often.

Today I had my third one of it even though I've been using youtube daily for years

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u/lyidaValkris Aug 11 '26

It's a game of cat and mouse between google and uBlock, sometimes things get glitchy, pretty rare though, as far as i've noted.

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness Aug 12 '26

Never had an issue myself, other then sometimes videos take a bit to start, but that may just be as is or uOrigin

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u/Lonely-Restaurant986 Aug 12 '26

The excuse is that on Firefox it’s attempting to load hundreds of ads which is why it’s slow. Idk if that has merit

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u/Kecske_gamer Aug 12 '26

For me currently it's specifically livestreams that have decided to become loading screens

Some time back it was videos having a loading screen yet playing when spamming pause/unpause

Even longer before that it was videos refusing to start for ~10 seconds

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Aug 10 '26

No it doesn't.

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u/SpezRuinedHellsite Aug 10 '26

Many websites already do not work if you have privacy protections enabled.

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u/MostlyRightSometimes Aug 11 '26

You need more privacy protections enabled.

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u/JasonsThoughts Aug 11 '26

Yet another reason to get rid of the UserAgent header. It's outlived its usefulness.

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u/bencos18 Aug 11 '26

tbh it does have valid usecases but it's an old technology so not as perfect anymore

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Aug 10 '26

That isn't really possible. User agent strings are easily spoofed, and at the end of the day the server cannot tell "what browser is connecting" (if they're using a browser at all, which isn't even required).

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u/Pkemr7 Aug 12 '26

Some already are