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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 rvnx »

rvnx wrote: post #40
gtirloni wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a pretty good idea for Google and, judging by the adoption, it serves users very well too. I think it's up to other browsers to offer better solutions.

When you develop a browser, one of the main concern of the users is to be able to import their passwords, bookmarks or tabs. Guess what, Chrome for Android doesn't allow anyone to extract this data and bans apps who connects to their servers to fetch this information. It's violating GDPR, but fuck the law when you have billions. Too big to jail.

Nice down vote, I see someone likes to get his data locked in the browsers and not be able to export.

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

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Post by _Microft »

vdfs wrote: post #75

This is a development version that was blocked, the main extension was not blocked.

They expect to be no longer able to update it.

"Since the next uBO release will essentially be what 1.22.5rc2 is, consider that uBO is probably coming to an end of life in the Chrome Web Store -- there is no good reason to believe uBO 1.22.5rc2 would no longer be rejected with only changing the version number to 1.23.0.", https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745#iss...

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

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Post by zaarn »

scarface74 wrote: post #85
zaarn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Right, because Apple is going to change how Safari works on iOS because of a change that Google makes.... And “monopoly” has a legal definition it isn’t defined by random HN posters every week.

In the EU having a monopoly doesn't require you to be the only vendor in the market, it's sufficient to be large enough to exert abusive market forces on competitors. Google Chrome definitely fits that definition, so no it's not redefined by random HN posters this week.

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

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Post by michaelmrose »

torben-friis wrote: post #18

I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong. Honestly, Google's (and general tech giants') willingness to let people's lives be caught in the cracks of their algorithms in their pursue for scalability scares me more than any ideology they could push. More and more, we're seeing developers and content creators being banned or demonetised…

No dating app represents most of your chance to meet people.

I don't believe that you have a meaningful right to use a website.

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

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Post by unityByFreedom »

bureaucrat wrote: post #72
ignoramous wrote: post #49

If you have to use Chromium, at this point it is clear that Brave is a better Chromium than Chrome [0][1] despite its BAT shenanigans. The UX is super nice, and adblocking just works without having to install any extensions. Hopefully Brave doesn't buy into the whole PrivacySandbox thing Google proposed [2]. For everything else, Firefox should be the default [3][4]. It'd be great if Firefox bundles a content blocker…

I’d rather trust Google than Brave.

Same. Plus, even with Brave, you'd still need to install the latest uBO from github, so there's no benefit aside from "I hate Google but I'll still use a fork of their open source browser"

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

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

simfoo wrote: post #55
dustingetz wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox scroll lags like 500ms behind my input, on my mbp. How does anyone live like that?

By disabling smooth scrolling (available in settings). Feels much snappier to me

Exactly. This is what fixed this issue for me as well. What I haven't been able to fix is that new windows open rather slowly.

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

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Post by finchisko »

It's about time Mozilla to release FF with nightly macOS optimizations and I'm ready to switch on all platforms I use.

I moved from Safari back to Chrome week ago, because Apple basically did same thing - killed uBlock in Safari 13. I was expecting to move to FF soon or later, but didn't expect it will be in less than a month. :)

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

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Post by scarface74 »

cookie_monsta wrote: post #74
zaarn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's not really how it worked pre-2010 when IE had the monopoly. And for all of Chrome (and Google's) faults, it does seem to be reasonably standards- compliant and even open to experimentation. If they want to spend some of their piles of cash developing new features that other browsers can then adopt and then standardise, I don't see the problem. If developers choose to use Chrome-only features and their pages br…

By 2010, at least in the US, it had to work on mobile. See all of the websites that abandoned Flash.

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

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Post by mirkules »

sgc wrote: post #51
ukyrgf wrote: post #10

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.

I am embarrassed to admit I hadn't heard of containers. Nice to see it is a Mozilla extension. I am giving it a test right now.

Hah, this is a really cool feature. For about two years, I managed this with multiple Firefox profiles instead, but this is a nicer integration.

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

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Post by lightedman »

outside1234 wrote: post #42

Edge on Chromium is a great browser! Been using it for three months now and am never going back. Also, while I am here, you should all be using a Pi Hole instead of uBlock Origin anyway. Much less detectable by sites, covers all of your devices... Seriously, spend the 1 hour it takes to set up the Pi Hole - you won’t regret it.

The Pi-Hole is literally DNS filtering - aka HOSTs file in hardware.

Relying upon a security practice from almost 25 years ago is not really a good idea IMHO.

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