A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by ismaildonmez » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 1:43 PM UTC

A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
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Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by lagadu » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 1:56 PM UTC

This was pretty inevitable, given the recent changes announced to Chrome that Google created to fight ad blockers. Why would they limit their fight to just that?

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by vezycash » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

Monopoly

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Post by panpanna » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 1:58 PM UTC

HN needs a better search function :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232438

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233041

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by rahuldottech » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

Is anyone really surprised? Google makes all its revenue from ads. A couple months ago there was an incident where if I recall correctly, someone published a browser on the play store which allowed users to install desktop browser extensions, one of which was an adblocker for YouTube, and it was removed with vague reasons?

Google has been taking steps for a long time to make it harder for adblockers to work on Chrome, and this is only the latest in the trend.

uBO works just fine on Firefox, both on mobile and desktop.

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Post by radicalbyte » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

It's time to switch to Firefox as my main web browser. It's faster and generally more efficient than Chrome plus it has the most important extensions.

The most surprising thing is that the Android version of Firefox is excellent. So good that I switched from Chrome a few months ago when this expected news first dropped. No ads on mobile is awesome.

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Post by scarface74 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:03 PM UTC

vezycash wrote: post #3

Monopoly

For Windows there is Firefox, and IE Edge. For the Mac their are both of those plus Safari.

Not to mention Chromium based browsers.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by dooglius » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:04 PM UTC

The single-purpose excuse is the same one they used to ban AdNauseam: https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by zaarn » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:05 PM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #7

vezycash wrote: post #3

Monopoly

For Windows there is Firefox, and IE Edge. For the Mac their are both of those plus Safari. Not to mention Chromium based browsers.

Doesn't mean that Chrome isn't a monopoly, with their current marketshare, if Chrome introduces a new feature or changes how some feature works, all competitors have no choice but to implement that change or websites stop working.

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Post by ukyrgf » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:07 PM UTC

Firefox with the containers extensions powers all of my browsing. In a bewildering turn of events, Microsoft Edge Dev powers my more intricate development needs.