We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the …

  • davel [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

    In other news:

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    I wonder if the web itself may bifurcate. Corporate, government, and most NGO websites will only respond to corporate browsers that run sanctioned DRM binary blobs to “verify” their “safety”. And then there is us, with our websites and our web clients.

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        31 month ago

        Librewolf is fine for now, but it is small tweaks tracking FF’s codebase. I think that given Mozilla’s trajectory, at some point someone will have to do a hard fork.

        Someone could do a hard fork of Chromium now, for that matter, but I’m not aware of any so far.

  • @N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
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    151 month ago

    Google is not killing uBlock Origin, it is making its Chrome browser even less user friendly. Just use Firefox or a Firefox fork.

  • @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    121 month ago

    The www has already gone to shit anyway thanks to SEO bullshit websites and AI generated garbage. Most of my online interactions are via applications these days. The more these companies ruin the www the less I find myself using a web browser.

  • youmaynotknow
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    What is this “chrome” thing I keep reading about? Be right back, my wolf needs to be fed.

  • @terusgormand8465@lemmings.world
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    Clickbait and misleading title, they’re putting in motion what they said they would do for years. That being the manifest v3 change to extensions, and the deprecation of manifest v2. They’re not killing uBlock origin, they’re changing the rules of what extensions can do and how they’re built.

  • YⓄ乙
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    31 month ago

    I know people who don’t care about ublock so I guess it’s not relevant. People who care about ad blockers should just move to Firefox or brave

  • ElPussyKangaroo
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    21 month ago

    What does this mean for other chromium browsers like Vivaldi? I like Vivaldi.