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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by EA-3167 »

gruez wrote: post #150
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…

>Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... Doesn't Safari have the same restriction, also ostensibly for "security/privacy" reasons? The only difference is that Apple doesn't have a web advertising presence, so you can't make the accusation that they're "abuse its market position to their own benefit".

That's a BIG difference though, and makes the claim about security more believable, especially since it isn't a sole restriction. There are also a number of ad blockers available for Safari, although personally I'll stick with Firefox either way.

Google is an ad company restriction use of the primary ad-blocker on its browser, it's blatant.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by zamalek »

gruez wrote: post #150
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…

>Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... Doesn't Safari have the same restriction, also ostensibly for "security/privacy" reasons? The only difference is that Apple doesn't have a web advertising presence, so you can't make the accusation that they're "abuse its market position to their own benefit".

This is coming from an Apple antagonist, but don't the Apple OSs have adblocking at a system level (implying Safari)? This does vindicate Apple (but doesn't help in the other legitimate scenarios that this API is needed, which I have been told do exist).

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Post by bad_user »

Mailtemi wrote: post #231
bad_user wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't agree with Mozilla paying that huge CEO salary, but… Do you know Firefox's handy new offline translation feature? That's AI a well. And Firefox is the only browser that doesn't leak your web page when translating it. There are plenty of other uses for AI, such as describing images without alt-text for the blind, or summarization. I, for one, want AI in my browser, you can't really say that “nobody wants it”,…

Really? Fire the Rust Servo team and double the CEO's salary in the same year? Almost the same money.

I said I don't agree with them wasting that much money on the CEO, maybe I wasn't clear (perhaps it's due to English not being my first language).

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by gloosx »

I've been personally enjoying Ghostery extension for the past year, block all ads, youtube, any HTML5 player, banners, popups – really clean and tidy browsing experience.

It didn't even catch any hype regarding this manifest support issue uBlock origin has, and it keeps silently working good without any interruptions, I wonder why is that?

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

chihuahua wrote: post #185
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t work for Google and genuinely think it’s better for users. It’s always bugged me that ad blockers request arbitrary read write permissions for all websites I visit, and it didn’t seem like that was ever going to change until Chrome forced the issue.

It's not ideal, but if that's what it takes to block ads as well as uBlock Origin does, then that's a price I'm willing to pay.

At the platform level, you have to have a security model, and sometimes it will conflict with functionality. I’m sure there’s a lot of potentially interesting browser extensions you could build with the ability to read and write arbitrary files, but Chrome has decided (much less controversially) that the sandbox is key to their security model and extensions can’t ask to escape it.

If manifest V3 ad blockers were nonfunctional to the point of being broken, I’d be more concerned, but in my experience they’re perfectly OK.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by zanellato19 »

skotobaza wrote: post #135
zanellato19 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their engineers genuinely believe that shit too, which is just absurd bullshit.

Do they really? Or are you assuming?

I have seen engineers defend that position here and on Github, so unless you assume they're lying, I would take them at their word.

Of course not all of them do, Google is a big company.

Re: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by jordanb »

bad_user wrote: post #226
jordanb wrote: post #193

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

Wikimedia does not raise $200 million per year.

You're right. They only raise $180 million a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

Still feels like it aught to be enough to make a browser.

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