Replying to an earlier post

No idea why uBlock specifically is being blocked, but it’s not like you can’t have an ad-blocker anymore.

because google took away the API for network traffic filtering. all that current filtering addons can do is pass a very brief, rarely updated network filter list to the browser, and insert cosmetic tweaks to the pages you visit. they can’t look anymore at all details of any network request and decide what do to. except on Firefox, where it has not been taken away.

Replying to an earlier post

first it was the news sites, then the shops and venues, but I didn’t speak up because I haven’t used them anyway.

then the utiliies companies did that, but I didn’t speak up, so far as I can pay the invoices personally it’s not a big deal.

then came the government sites, but meh, I can just go in person! sure it takes away many hours but it’s not worth the hassle to complain!

and by that time nothing else was left either, because all the other sites dropped support in the meantime, while I did not have the time anymore to notice it.

Replying to an earlier post

When I did a site that didn’t play nice with one of my various Mozilla Gecko/Fusion browser flavors, I try a different one.

When they all are failing, not just WaterFox, I either fire up DuckDuckGo Browser or Safari if on a Mac.

If that were to fail I probably would quit using that service.

My actual Google account isn’t allowed on most of my computers anymore, since I DeGoogled, and only have it operating in very sandboxed environments like one Vivaldi browser that lives inside of a VM.