uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

Post by ikiris » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 7:52 PM UTC

pmdr wrote: post #467

IshKebab wrote: post #394

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It's not about you being able to do whatever you want on your machine. It's extension authors being able to. Malicious Chrome extensions are a huge problem.

Don't they have a vetting process for extensions? Even if they don't, you, the (power)user should be able to manually turn on whatever you want, should you so desire. What's stunning is that we're moving away from this, for our "security." And by then "use Firefox/something else" won't be helpful when entire websites will refuse to work on anything else but Chrome.

Post by photonthug » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 7:53 PM UTC

yard2010 wrote: post #343

zanellato19 wrote: post #111

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

Perfect time to read again The Gervais Principle! https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Post by pmdr » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 7:54 PM UTC

JimmaDaRustla wrote: post #429

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.

Post by ltbarcly3 » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 7:55 PM UTC

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #143

I switched to firefox a few months ago because of this. However, I just switched back last week. Overall firefox is a better browser. The ability to screenshot in the browser is so useful and I used it 10x per day, not having it in chrome is a real pain. But.. nobody tests on it anymore I think. Lots of popular sites are very slow and laggy with it, including sites I need for work. I don't think this is because of in…

Post by unicornporn » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 7:56 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #179

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.

The adblockers still work on Chrome though. Pretty sure people are figuring out to switch to uBlock Origin Lite and ads -- including on YouTube -- are still being blocked just fine.