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Re: Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

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Post by bborud » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 11:05 PM UTC

pibaker wrote: post #266

bborud wrote: post #253

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How would one hold Google accountable? By fining them $1bn? $10bn? $100bn? To them it is just the cost of doing business. We're beyond holding huge companies accountable. The only way they could be held accountable is if there was personal risk involved for the CEOs. There isn't.

> There isn't. Not with this attitude.

I’m not American. This is not an attitude. It is an observation. Before you get to thump your chest you owe me homework. You have to prove me wrong.

Re: Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

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Post by bborud » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

pibaker wrote: post #435

none2585 wrote: post #390

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I hate these comments. What meaningful thing is this person supposed to do? In the US, the government is _owned_ by corporations. To pretend otherwise is naive.

If I am the evil corporations owning the state I would love to make all citizens pathetic cynics who think they have no capability for change and therefore bears no responsibility.

How is this different from observed reality. No, don’t chicken out and try to get out of the question with something witty: give a proper answer.

Re: Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

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Post by jjav » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 9:28 AM UTC

SR2Z wrote: post #647

soulofmischief wrote: post #644

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Can you name another serious candidate at the time who had both political skill to your liking and also was an actual honest-to-god man of the people, even if some their policies are out of touch or misguided? Virtue alone was a good enough reason to make it an obvious choice for me, I'm not even here to defend his actual political prowess.

FFS, Biden won on the most left-leaning platform of any politician in history. Considering that he actually won the primary, I would consider him to be much more of a "man of the people" than Sanders. Even Mitt Romney, who has the WRONG LETTER NEXT TO HIS NAME, spearheaded bipartisan COVID tax reforms that halved childhood poverty. I think calling someone a man of the people requires them to have successfully accompl…

> FFS, Biden won on the most left-leaning platform of any politician in history.

This is completely disconnected from reality. Biden would have been considered a republican in any era except the current hyper-extremist times.

Re: Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

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Post by jjav » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 9:34 AM UTC

zx8080 wrote: post #523

CloudflareSuccs wrote: post #359

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The second I see that awful Cloudflare countdown I blacklist the site and never return. I am convinced all their metrics saying they reduce bot traffic are mistaken for the fact that they reduce all traffic by annoying users away.

Gatekeeping internet and reading every byte unencrypted. Nice business monopoly.

I wonder who might be willing to fund/pay access to every byte unencrypted.