Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

Post by giancarlostoro » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 3:45 AM UTC

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I really like the point the uBlock maintainer's make: "Extensions act on behalf of users, they add capabilities to a user agent , and deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will essentially decrease the level of user agency in Chromium, to the benefit of web sites which obviously would be happy to have the last word in what resources their pages can fetch/execute/render."

I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. > Extensions act on behalf of users, they add capabilities to a user agent, and deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will essentially decrease the level of user agency in Chromium This is off-topic, but I felt the same way about most data privacy problems. It…

Post by aylmao » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 3:48 AM UTC

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So Google is going to help me have more privacy by preventing me from letting extensions I want to run from having access to data I want that extension to have, so it can do a job I want it to do. Meanwhile, Google's software will of course have full access to everything I do online, and most of my data will live on Google servers. And the extension that I want to have access is also downloaded from Google servers. A…

When Google takes the approach you want, they are vilified for "letting third parties access your data" - as in the Gmail "scandal" a few months ago. If you let users do whatever they want, they will often shoot themselves in the foot. It's a tough balance.

Post by sridca » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 3:51 AM UTC

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Google does not track your incognito history and cookies unless you actually sign-in to your Google account in the incognito window of course.

Of course they do.

Post by aylmao » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 3:59 AM UTC

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I really just don't understand the obsession with Chrome, especially in hacker communities. Sorry Google, I feel "icky & gross" when I use you.

> I really just don't understand the obsession with Chrome, especially in hacker communities. Chrome used to be very lightweight, fast and basically unseated IE as the top browser. It got that love because at the time Firefox was bloated and IE had a stranglehold. Chrome was also safer with a process per tab. Chrome made web browsing/dev pleasant like Firefox/Firebug did and it really took off being based on Webkit l…

Post by dralley » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 4:06 AM UTC

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I bet a decent chunk of the MS engineers lobbied to adopt Gecko instead of Chromium when they decided to move away from EdgeHtml. I wonder what the reasoning was for not going that route, it seems like a huge miss and a total acceptance of a browser monoculture.

Gecko is deep in to a transitional phase. Once it comes out the other end it may be simple to embed but it's currently far too early for that. On the other hand Chromium is relatively simple to adapt with many real world examples to learn from. (Personally I think they should stick with EdgeHtml but it seems that ship has sailed).