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minus-squareronl2k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-28 days agoI switched from Chrome to MS Edge and don’t have that YouTube ad-blocking issue with uBlock anymore. Other than that, MS Edge works exactly like Chrome.
minus-squaremoopet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoMS Edge is Chrome, with a slight MS reskin.
minus-squareronl2k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoMS Edge allows extensions that Chrome does not. It still fully supports uBlock Origin.
minus-squaremoopet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI did not know that - but surely since it’s based on Chrome, that means they’re going to have to follow suit at some point?
minus-squareronl2k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoThe Chromium browser code is open source.
minus-squaremoopet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoI thought the changes were to do with manifest v3, and that was part of chromium. I didn’t realise that was added to chrome after the fact.
I switched from Chrome to MS Edge and don’t have that YouTube ad-blocking issue with uBlock anymore. Other than that, MS Edge works exactly like Chrome.
MS Edge is Chrome, with a slight MS reskin.
MS Edge allows extensions that Chrome does not. It still fully supports uBlock Origin.
I did not know that - but surely since it’s based on Chrome, that means they’re going to have to follow suit at some point?
The Chromium browser code is open source.
I thought the changes were to do with manifest v3, and that was part of chromium. I didn’t realise that was added to chrome after the fact.