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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Post by WD-42 »

ray023 wrote: post #366
AstralSerenity wrote: post #332

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You can, but ultimately Brave is downstream of Chrome and their stated intention of supporting Manifest V2 "for as long as [they're] able" doesn't inspire as much confidence. Firefox is also the only open alternative to Chromium at the moment, so I prefer to endorse it instead.

Brave has its own Rust based Adblocker BUILD IN. That is at the very core of the Browser, uses the exact same filter lists uBlock Origin and all the other use. There is no point in using uBlock origin in Brave at all. I have been using Brave for years now and the adblocker pretty much like uBlock. Never looked back. I think it even inspired by uBlock but the fact they can even integrate it tighter with Chromium makes…

For now. We’ll see how long it takes for them to integrate their Brave Bucks for either enabling the blocker or whitelisting ads.

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Post by AlotOfReading »

glenstein wrote: post #375
drpossum wrote: post #253

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Then they wouldn't be throwing money into open firepits on trash like a VPN service or how to comply with Google's advertising decisions. Then they would let people contribute money to the browser (instead of to Mozilla Foundation which goes to enabling aforementioned trash fires) and to the salary of a multi-million dollar CEO after laying off developer staff and hiring more C-suite assistants. Mozilla is a bad orga…

>Then they wouldn't be throwing money into open firepits on trash like a VPN service It's pants-on-head level of crazy talk to suggest that the VPN service is compromising Mozilla's finances. It's a re-wrapped Mullvad VPN that probably was not expensive to roll out (it being inexpensive to deploy is probably precisely the reason they moved forward with it). It's like people are just workshopping arguments where they…

The VPN service is probably the most sensible thing they could lean into. It's basically all margin and it works nicely with the privacy messaging.

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

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Post by jaybro867 »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #422
glenstein wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Then they wouldn't be throwing money into open firepits on trash like a VPN service It's pants-on-head level of crazy talk to suggest that the VPN service is compromising Mozilla's finances. It's a re-wrapped Mullvad VPN that probably was not expensive to roll out (it being inexpensive to deploy is probably precisely the reason they moved forward with it). It's like people are just workshopping arguments where they…

The VPN service is probably the most sensible thing they could lean into. It's basically all margin and it works nicely with the privacy messaging.

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

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Post by johnsillings »

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…

> I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy

What are you using instead?

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Post by dylan604 »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #131
sneak wrote: post #91

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The issue I have is not that they did it; it’s that they lied about why. Chrome is their project, they should be free to do whatever they want with it. People can use a different browser if they wish (I do). This whole “better for users” bullshit is why I don’t respect Google as a company. Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining.

Where I live, Google rented out a huge Billboard to advertise Chrome, and it cites Chrome as "the world's most trusted browser" I LOL every time I see it. Imagine the lengths they have to go to, to try to make people trust a product they have.

Repeat the lie often enough and loud enough, it becomes accepted as truth. A billboard is pretty loud in this context.

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Post by bearjaws »

gruez wrote: post #412
bearjaws wrote: post #374

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Alright? Split iOS off from Apple, then split Apple Music off too? I hate these arguments where people point to some other shitty thing a company is doing as some sort of gotcha.

>Alright? Split iOS off from Apple, then split Apple Music off too? Windows is split off from Lenovo/Dell. How's that working out for the Windows OS, or the Edge browser?

Largest OS share in the market? Seems to be working out pretty good?

Edge is a perfectly good browser now? Probably should be its own company too if we are splitting Chrome off from Google.

I will tell you that we should split these companies into 100 parts if thats what you are asking.

Imagine if Apple licensed its chips out in competition with Qualcomm...

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Post by callahad »

eNV25 wrote: post #178
noman-land wrote: post #118

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FYI developer edition has a ton of additional data collection that I don't believe can be disabled, if that matters to you.

Isn't Developer Edition just a rebranded Firefox Beta that uses a different profile by default?

Same branch as beta, but with different build flags. Add-ons don't need to be signed to be installed on DevEdition, there's a DevTools button in the toolbar by default, etc.

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

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Post by JimmaDaRustla »

How long until other chromium browsers follow suit? I'm currently using Edge.

I also wonder when someone one will "hack" chromium to run whatever extensions they want - I could build my own extension, or build uBlock Origin from the source (if available) and execute the extension regardless of the store.

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

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Post by andrei_says_ »

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…

It is the gaslighting that is so annoying and insulting. An entity of such power and reach resorting to manipulation is disconcerting.

Everyone will call them on it. Why not be straight with their intentions?

An advertising company optimizing their technology to better support their business while improving security.

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