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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by internetter »

blockme69 wrote: post #114
bearjaws wrote: post #4

Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy, a joke coming from Google. Then the excuse was "well it improves performance", which they could easily do by marking extensions as low performance. If Google wanted to improve this they have an entire search engine where they could re-ran…

Well hopefully Google will pay the price for their greed soon enough. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-...

They won't under the trump admin

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Post by throwaway48476 »

sneak wrote: post #162
marricks wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Chrome is their project, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. Google has a long history of "accidentally" breaking gmail on firefox and funneling users to Chrome back in the day. It's beyond stupid to argue they should be able to do whatever they want with their vertically integrated monopoly. Like, if you want to dig holes in your own driveway sure whatever, but if you own all the roads in Detroit…

If people don’t like this, they can stop using gmail. Neither Chrome, nor Gmail is a monopoly. The more things Google does to make gmail less useful, the better. It’s no secret that Google is an ad company. Anyone still using gmail deserves what they get.

The only thing that can stop a monopoly is a bigger monopoly, the government.

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Post by califool »

whalesalad wrote: post #132
layer8 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other Chromium-based browsers don’t work? That would at least save you from stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942252 .

I haven't tried anything but Chrome/Chromium (nightly dev). Brave is my dedicated porn browser I won't use it for anything else.

BAHAHAAHAHAHAH. Do you get bitcoins for watching the porn ads?

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Post by bad_user »

jordanb wrote: post #193
bad_user wrote: post #168

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Name a project whose development costs as much as Firefox and that survives from donations. Many people want AI in their browser. And what does Firefox have to do with crypto?

> Name a project whose development costs as much as Firefox and that survives from donations. Wikipedia.

Wikimedia does not raise $200 million per year.

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

jstummbillig wrote: post #50
bearjaws wrote: post #4

Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy, a joke coming from Google. Then the excuse was "well it improves performance", which they could easily do by marking extensions as low performance. If Google wanted to improve this they have an entire search engine where they could re-ran…

They had the market position and option to do that for years now. "Told you so" whenever a patterns matches, and ignoring the times when it does not instead of providing a good model that encompasses both, is a fairly lame way to reason about the world.

I've never killed anyone, should I get your gratitude for it?

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Post by hnpolicestate »

Spivak wrote: post #99
phito wrote: post #51

I hear so many people IRL complaining about this. I tell them to switch to firefox, that the adblockers still work there, and they still won't switch to it because they are "used to chrome". I really feel like google won this battle. People will through a lot of abuse just to maintain their habits.

I've been telling my IRL non-technical friends to use Brave. By far the easiest migration path, literally is Chrome, but with with a good built-in ad blocker and uBlock Origin. I've long since understood that any browser that I would use should be treated as an anti-recommendation for normal folks. I can already see the "but the crypto thing" and yeah, I don't love it but it's so out of the way that I don't even know…

You have to take the CEO's philosophy into account when choosing technology tools unfortunately.

I personally dmd Eich on Twitter during 2019-2021 ish. He's opposed to censorship, tracking, government lockdowns during COVID, and authoritarianism.

That is exactly who you want running your browser and search company if you wish to use an open Internet. It's anti chat control, anti governments choosing which apps it's citizens can install, it's free speech for all, including "hate speech". Open and free wild West Internet culture.

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Post by rtgdfm420 »

J_Shelby_J wrote: post #220
Analemma_ wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If one of my friends kept pitching cryptoscam shit to me I’d stop talking to them in short order. I suspect your IRL non-technical friends feel similarly.

At this point the backlash to crypto is more ridiculous than the actual crypto scams.

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