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

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Have been using Firefox Nightly for few weeks as only browser. Rock solid. Can recommend few extensions - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc... - http://www.one-tab.com - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-touch-z...

Why Nightly? It's not guaranteed to be rock solid.

Right now, nightly contains updates that are specific to energy usage on MacOS (in a good way).

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

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Mozilla has a lot of employees focused on making a libre browser. Instead of wasting time on the Gecko sinking ship, they should really be maintaining a fork of Chromium without the cancer. The world isn't any better off because you can't get over a massive sunk cost. What the world needs is a free Chromium fork (with all the Mozilla integrations like sync and the addons) that is professionally maintained for widespread use.

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

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Google must be forced to open up Chrome to third-party extension stores. A monopoly deciding on the kind of browser extensions we get to distribute and use is sickening. As Chrome is a dominant platform, our work is prevented from reaching users if it does not align with the bussiness goals of Google, and extensions that users want on their devices are effectively censored out of existence. Again, the solution in the…

> Google must be forced to open up Chrome to third-party extension stores. How about instead of acting as a victim and waiting for some government technocrat from the consequences of your own choices... Just stop using Google-Chrome? IT's not a monopoly when there are other good browsers you can use. In fact the only real monopolies that exist only due so in conjunction with government through some special grant of p…

I am not a Chrome user, but my users are. Good luck with your project getting traction when you are censored from distributing it to 70% of the market.

It's actually baffling how people are defending Google and saying it does not have a monopoly in the browser market. Just imagine Microsoft banning your software for arbitrary reasons from being installed on Windows, and then being told that there are still other operating systems on the market.

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

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post #412

Fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_... > Hey all, I'm Simeon, the developer advocate for Chrome extensions. This morning I heard from the review team; they've approved the current draft so next publish should go through. Unfortunately it's the weekend, so most folks are out, but I'm planning to follow up with u/gorhill4 with more details once I have them.

The only reason that this was resolved was because ublock is a popular project. The other projects linked there did not have as much luck.

Just the fact that they reply in this way on issues is disgusting:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745#iss...

https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image/issues/57#issueco...

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

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post #412

Fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_... > Hey all, I'm Simeon, the developer advocate for Chrome extensions. This morning I heard from the review team; they've approved the current draft so next publish should go through. Unfortunately it's the weekend, so most folks are out, but I'm planning to follow up with u/gorhill4 with more details once I have them.

Seven minutes between that comment there and this one here. Arbitrage.

even less, I posted it earlier if you extend in More :)

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

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post #412

Fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_... > Hey all, I'm Simeon, the developer advocate for Chrome extensions. This morning I heard from the review team; they've approved the current draft so next publish should go through. Unfortunately it's the weekend, so most folks are out, but I'm planning to follow up with u/gorhill4 with more details once I have them.

That was fixed faster than I’ve ever seen Mozilla fix anything.

Still, if MS Edge comes to Linux without the manifest v3 blocking restrictions, I’ll try switching to that first because I want a Chrome-based Chrome competitor supported by a major entity.

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

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Google must be forced to open up Chrome to third-party extension stores. A monopoly deciding on the kind of browser extensions we get to distribute and use is sickening. As Chrome is a dominant platform, our work is prevented from reaching users if it does not align with the bussiness goals of Google, and extensions that users want on their devices are effectively censored out of existence. Again, the solution in the…

Can't Chromium be modified in order to use other extension sources?

It can be, but then you'll be left with a modified browser that has little or no users.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried out NewPipe?

Newpipe is broken isn't it? Everybody should just install kiwi, it's chromium for Android WITH extensions (YouTube background audio, uBlock, etc)

Broken how? Works fine for me(tm)

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

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Employees at Google - fix this now. I’m rather disturbed that on HN of all places not a single comment is talking about anything other than going to another browser. Google should fix this, and there should be plenty of people here who can voice it internally.

already fixed by googlers : https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_...
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