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I use Firefox so I'm fine.

But what should I do with the not so tech savvy family members and friends that use Chrome and I installed Ublock origin? Install the lite version? Other alternative?

I'm sorry to say that will be impossible to make them switch to Firefox.

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This may sound impolite, but what you should do is to tell them to use Firefox. When they don't or say no, then that's that. It's not your problem and you should not feel obligated to enable or mitigate their poor decisions. If they can't manage their computing affairs without you, then they have to start respecting your professional advice.

Life's too short.

Isn't impolite, is all good. But I don't want to deal with the possible issues, sorry.

For what is worth, I use Firefox (plus many extensions including UbO) to do banking, connecting to government sites, medical stuff, and other non-trivial-surfing tasks, and the worse thing I encountered ever, aside the occasional harmless misaligned box or font, were a local hardware store whose search doesn't seem to work, and an online musical instrument shop (thomann.de) whose pages scripts sometimes hang, but as I wrote I run a lot of extensions so I'm not sure if those are FF issues or not. Everything else, and I mean really everything else, just works fine.

Accept and let go of the fact that good people you love make bad life decisions. Life becomes much easier after that.

AdGuard it works on every platform and works with MV3 better than uBlock Origin Lite.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-browser-extension/overview.ht...

https://adguard.com/en/blog/chrome-manifest-v3-where-we-stan...

If Adguard is able to work on MV3 why isn't uBlock able to ?

Thank you. Looks polished and trustworthy.

Do you know if it has nagging with upsells to the paid products that they offer?

Nope. Doesn't nag you to use their VPN or anything.

Brave might be an option. They have their own ad blocking functionality and the full ublock origin (if that team keeps updating it for chromium) will keep working. People say they have done shady things in the past but the browser is open source so that doesn't effect MY decision to use it for the time being.

Thank you but will be too difficult change browser. They usually have the whole Google ecosystem, for example password autofill on Android is not good with Firefox pass manager, with Chrome the UX is good. Stuff like that. I know is sad but I don't want to create issues on they digital lives.

Change the Firefox icon to a Chrome icon.