A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by shsuejehdun » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

How about applying such regulatory process to discussion/news boards like Hacker News and Reddit?

I posted a critical inquiry to a thread where China was being rightfully accused of human rights violations about our own (America’s own) human rights violations from our border detention camps, child separation, and denying medicine to detainees, among various other atrocities like destabilizing countries around the world and most recently leaving allies to be slaughtered. In other words, we have no right to shame China given our worse-than-China moral failings.

I was flagged and then my reply to the flagging which rightfully accused HN of being a dictatorship was deleted (or at least it has a - symbol that does not allow it to be expanded)

Why do we keep pretending that this place (HN) is some sort of open discussion space where critical questioning is allowed?

It’s Bullshit.

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

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Post by z3t4 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:58 PM UTC

bagacrap wrote: post #120

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…

I wouldn't imagine they're impossible to challenge in cases like this. In fact I wager this post amounts to a challenge as it's nearly guaranteed a Chrome extensions developer will see it.

Not all apps have millions of users and make front page news. Now imagine how hard it is to contact anyone inside Google if your app/extension is not that popular.

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

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Post by behringer » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:58 PM UTC

JohnicBoom wrote: post #327

behringer wrote: post #148

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Not only is it the default on Android, it is required by some apps, like gmail that all its links open in Chrome despite Firefox being default on my phone. It stinks of the monopolistic behavior MS was engaged in with IE back in the day.

If you go into Gmail's General Settings screen, you can uncheck "Open web links in Gmail". All the links I open in Gmail open directly in Firefox for me after doing that. If I leave that box checked, it does use a web view that is "Powered by Firefox", but I always prefer to have it just open a new tab in my regular Firefox app.

Hey thanks, I presumed it was chrome because it ran differently compared to my normal FF install and had no plugins! Sorry for the newb moment!

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

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Post by Santosh83 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #379

dessant wrote: post #104

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 divest of its search business, Android business, ad business, browser business, office software, and web properties into wholly separate corporate entities. The same should happen to Apple. Both companies are anti-consumer monopolies.

Separate companies can still collude and cooperate for larger mutual ends... especially if they're only nominally separate.

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

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Post by vbezhenar » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

lazyguy2 wrote: post #425

dTal wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once again sci-fi proves astonishingly prescient - this kind of world was predicted as early as 1965, in Gordon Dickson's darkly humorous short story "Computers Don't Argue" (which you can find on Google if you're interested).

Being stonewalled by bureaucracy with no explanation given is nothing new.

You can shout at bureaucrats. You have some basic rights. You can demand escalation of your issue. You can't do much when your Google account is banned.

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

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Post by taurath » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

on_and_off wrote: post #440

taurath wrote: post #399

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_...

That is great news. Thank you.

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

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Post by Causality1 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 7:07 PM UTC

morsch wrote: post #80

Causality1 wrote: post #46

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Only downside to Firefox mobile is its crummy tab management. Especially when browsing in landscape mode it takes an incredibly long swipe to dismiss a tab. I don't think I go a week without yelling "oh my God, go away!" at my phone after failing to close a tab after multiple tries.

I use an add-on that adds a close button to the address bar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/tab-close-web...

That's super awesome, thanks!

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 7:16 PM UTC

ahartmetz wrote: post #365

tasty_freeze wrote: post #233

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The matrix is more complicated. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where In some configurations you have to set a config flag to enable it.

Hey, I think this site's audience is technical enough that it's okay to just give them the name of the option: about:config -> gfx.webrender.all -> true Go to about:support and search for WebRender to check if it worked. Works great for me with Kubuntu 19.10 / Mesa / AMD. It didn't work when I tried it a couple of months ago.

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

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Post by zbraniecki » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 7:21 PM UTC

matheusmoreira wrote: post #420

taurath wrote: post #403

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FF has never been rock solid for me. Massive CPU usage. Causes my fans to turn on on any MacBook I’ve ever had.

Same experience here. Browsing with Firefox increases my CPU temperature by 10 degrees.

Try Beta/Nightly! Firefox got much better for MacOS in 70/71 but that version is not yet in stable.

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

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Post by dessant » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 7:22 PM UTC

dependenttypes wrote: post #434

joshka wrote: 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...

Armin here, the developer of Search by Image. After that experience I felt it's necessary to share the entire discussion. That is how Google treats developers in exchange for enriching their platform, with a list of nonsense allegations, and if you speak up, retaliation. This practice is well documented at this point, and the best way out for those targeted is to hold your head down and maybe plead for help on social media.

So yes, Google will eventually be forced to open up Chrome to third-party extension stores. Google will not get to decide what software the majority of humans can install in their browsers, the same way Microsoft is not allowed to block you for arbitrary reasons from installing software on your Windows devices.