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Nobody here is nearly as combative as you. Look up projection. You'd like your choices to be respected, but you are incapable of offering civility. Is that also a choice we should respect, or is it beyond your control?
Like I said: you get what you give.
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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.
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We'll see how long it lasts. Firefox has mostly strived, in the Quantum era, to stay mostly-ish compatible with Google's interpretation of WebExtensions, from what I can tell.
They do have some parts that are Firefox-exclusive. This is an easy advantage to have over your competition practically for free. I hope they see that.
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I worry that Mozilla will copy the API changes ("for compatibility!") and disable ublock on Firefox too, as Mozilla gets most of their funding from advertising companies too.
If the new API get's ported (which is likely to happen), it does not mean the existing API will get crippled. After all, they are different implementations and it's Mozilla who's behind that. I trust them to not deprecate the old API until all use cases, especially concerning privacy, are taken care of in the appropriate way. Let's hope I'm right. :)
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That's sort of weird. Searching DDG for "ublock origin" gives me: 1. Chrome web store 2. ublock.org 3. Microsoft store 4. Wikipedia 5. Mozilla addon, and finally 6. Gorhill's github for ublock origin. Can we finally say that DDG is better for some searches than Google?
Bing pretty much returns the same as the above
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Nobody here is nearly as combative as you. Look up projection. You'd like your choices to be respected, but you are incapable of offering civility. Is that also a choice we should respect, or is it beyond your control?
Like I said: you get what you give.
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I suspect a reply to your comment isn't going to change your stance on whether Google is dancing around in the anti-trust/monopoly area. Maybe you would concede that some reasonable people think they have in the past? Like FTC investigators (albeit overruled by their bosses): http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/ Or Eric Schmidt: https://www.businessinsider.com/is-google-a-monopoly-were-in...
see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15045653 Winning argument was > It takes me all of 10 seconds to type duckduckgo.com, and maybe 30 to switch default search engines for the browser. [1][2] But an equivalent, i can just download FF in 10 seconds is not acceptable in this context. why? Infact, Google browser is way less dominant that the search engine. > I suspect a reply to your comment isn't going to cha…
It wasn't meant to be patronizing. People's views on anti-trust law vary enough that I don't expect a debate to settle things.
Well, highly recommend Firefox. Works great after the updates last year and even use it on mobile. It bothers me that iOS doesn’t support addons to Firefox mobile. But on Android you can even install ublock origin
Which is why I'm all the more disappointed that Mozilla is unable to resist the siren's call either, what with the Looking Glass decision and their tendency to deprecate UX functionality with no replacement (like custom keyboard shortcuts).
Why does this always happen? Why is it when google commits murder, someone mentions that firefox was caught jaywalking?