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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 ta1243 »

culi wrote: post #689
HumblyTossed wrote: post #471

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't forget the part developers played in this by enabling Chrome/Google to become so very dominant.

And developers can play a part in reversing that. It seems like it might already be happening: | month | Chrome | Firefox | Safari | | -- | -- | -- | -- | | Jan '25 | -1.29 | +0.07 | +0.84 | | Feb '25 | -0.75 | +0.08 | +0.03 | Note: Edge is also gaining. They use Chromium but their stance on Manifest v3 is unclear to me. So far they don't seem to have any plans to deprecate v2 support I know these numbers seem tiny,…

> but if these trends were to continue

Disco Stu has something to say about that

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

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Post by ta1243 »

HideousKojima wrote: post #684
internetter wrote: post #271

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Just like the TikTok ban they also got the ball rolling on?

Funny you should mention that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/trump-tik... Yes, Tik Tok still needs to divest ownership or be banned in the US

I do hope that other countries ban american saas products which are not majority owned by that country.

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

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Post by lolinder »

carlosjobim wrote: post #700
tomrod wrote: post #294

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Indeed. Kagi proves users are willing to pay for search (me included, recently).

At the moment it has only proven that 0.00000000001% of users are willing to pay for search.

That's enough to be (apparently) profitable. It doesn't matter if most people don't pay for search as long as enough people do that paid search can exist.

https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi

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

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Post by tomrod »

carlosjobim wrote: post #700
tomrod wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. Kagi proves users are willing to pay for search (me included, recently).

At the moment it has only proven that 0.00000000001% of users are willing to pay for search.

Ah yes, the mystical 0.0073 units of people paying for search, assuming every person searches.

Over a year ago, Kagi hit 20k paying members. This puts monthly ARR between $200k and $500k ($10 to $25/head), roughly. That's 0.000273% of all people -- quite a jump!

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

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Post by timmytokyo »

yanis_t wrote: post #490
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…

A company optimises for profit. Real shocker.

s/company/monopoly/

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

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Post by dzaima »

carlosjobim wrote: post #700
tomrod wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. Kagi proves users are willing to pay for search (me included, recently).

At the moment it has only proven that 0.00000000001% of users are willing to pay for search.

It's more like 0.005%-0.02% of queries and like 0.001% of users depending on what statistics for Google you go by, but of course still very insignificant.

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

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Post by timmg »

sotix wrote: post #668

This is the death of the hacker. We have allowed new heights of power and unchecked control decide they know better than us. We are no longer allowed or trusted to make choices in our best interests. Many practice apologetics for why this is necessary, pointing to Apple and Mozilla, as if that doesn’t make this change any less devastating. It was a great run. The silver lining is it can be the birth of a new generati…

> We are no longer allowed or trusted to make choices in our best interests.

Ironically (or not) this is the Apple side of the Android/iOS debate. And most people are happier with iOS. (And use Macs over Linux, FWIW.)

[I probably shouldn't mention that I personally think adblockers are unethical :) ]

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

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Post by rafram »

marcosdumay wrote: post #543
paulddraper wrote: post #159

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People didn't switch from IE to Chrome because it was better. They switched because it was MUCH, MUCH better. (And was part of the ecosystem, profiles, bookmarks, passwords, etc.) --- For better or worse, no such disparity exists currently.

They switched because Google bundled invisible Chrome installers in other software that would not only make its browser the default, but also invisibly steal IE clicks. A move that was widely celebrated at the time.

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