Google and Cloudflare basically owns the internet
It’s pax cloudflara. We let them in exchange for peace on the web.
(Pax nubem would probably be too obscure…)
About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
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Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#12Right now uBlock Origin Lite is "featured" on Chrome web store and so far navigation has been ok in the "complete" mode.
Funnily enough, it made me review the block lists of the extension and I realized that I could select more of them. Too early to jump to conclusions.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#13Google and Cloudflare basically owns the internet
At least Cloudflare has no network effects. They offer good services that I can migrate off of if I need to. Google owns my life and it's really hard to go elsewhere, even if I want to.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
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Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#15I couldn't find a good timeline of all the developments in the extension space. I started first installing extensions on Firefox with their super powerful but dangerous XUL system, then they watered it down and many extensions died, then Chrome took over the internet, then extensions could just block the ads and nothing more interesting, then suddenly for Chrome, they even can't do that? I remember Google also trying to ship some tamper protection (like DRM) for web sites... I wonder how this all will end up. I also wonder why people keep installing Chrome but not Firefox, but I digress. I really think the web needs a detailed documentary on how Google played Microsoft's EEE scheme on the whole web.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#16I see people reporting that the extension has already been forcefully removed (or disabled in some cases) from their Chrome. This hasn't happened to me (v133 on MacOS). I have primarily been using Chrome up until this point as I was under the impression that performance (and therefore battery life) is bad with FF on MacOS. Recent results seem to indicate that Chrome is in fact the worst offender [1]. Yesterday I unin…
Orion looks pretty interesting, it's not like any of the other alternative browsers (opera, vivaldi, brave, arc etc) which just wrap Chromium in more junk. It uses WebKit which is optimised for Apple platforms, giving more battery life, while also integrating uBlock Origin.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#17regardless of what people complain of, firefox is still an awesome daily driver. nobody likes the direction the MF is taking the browser to but at least we can influence it, unlike google.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#18I tried uBlock Origin Lite for a very short time. Then I realized that in Lite, the user can’t add custom rules[0]. That’s when I had enough. So now I’m using Firefox instead, where I can use uBlock Origin.
[0] See https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1in2ls4/ubloc...
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
What part of Arc feels abandoned? I still use as my primary browser.
The part where they say they are not developing it further. CEO discussing it further here: https://x.com/joshm/status/1850717644779110643 They have not shipped anything but browser updates and minor fixes for months.
> They have not shipped anything but browser updates and minor fixes for months.
I would LOVE my browser to do just that!
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#20Google and Cloudflare basically owns the internet
At least Cloudflare has no network effects. They offer good services that I can migrate off of if I need to. Google owns my life and it's really hard to go elsewhere, even if I want to.
if cloudflare flags your IP/VPN/fingerprint/useragent/haircut good luck accessing 60% of the internet. their invisible turnstyles and captchas are everywhere