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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 jpc0 »

opan wrote: post #691
winwang wrote: post #477

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As much as I dislike their Chrome practices, I am rather against the idea of forcing them to sell Chrome. For one, they simply have had a better product, at least in the past. Part of their large monopoly is due to just being better outright for a large portion of users (presumably). Are we to punish making overly-good products? For another, sell to whom? And why would they be a good steward? And yet another, there's…

>Did Google have to open Chromium? No. Google did not make Chromium from scratch, and so were obligated to use a license compatible with the previous source they used. That source can be traced back to KDE's Konqueror browser and its KHTML engine.

Your argument is that Google couldn't possibly have written their own web engine and browser at a time when Firefox and IE were the alternative options?

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

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Post by porker »

kennysoona wrote: post #538
porker wrote: post #292

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751 tabs open right now and growing. Firefox copes fine. Me? Not so much (:

751 tabs open is just ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. Use some kind of tab session manager addon, and start organizing things - no need to have them all open concurrently.

757 now.

I used to bookmark everything into Diigo. Then their Firefox extension stopped working... and I haven't got a cross-platform, cross-browser process up and running again.

Is there a tab session manager that does that, and lets me send tabs from my current session to another session? E.g. I'm on my "Writing C for a hobby" session and quickly search for something cooking related, and then need to send that to my cooking session?

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

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Post by ta1243 »

culi wrote: post #693
bilalq wrote: post #349

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Isn't Mozilla's VPN just a thin UI over Mullvad's servers? I don't think it costs them much and probably brings in some decent revenue.

Do you have a source for this? I'm a big fan of Mullvad and trust their service more than any. I wouldn't mind supporting Mozilla's independence from Google while getting the same VPN service I'm currently getting Hopefully Mozilla's MDN Plus offering can grow to bring them a big source of revenue. MDN is a treasure for any web developer and, should Mozilla go under, this public service would be sorely missed for the…

The main problem with mozvpn is that they have a mozilla:mulvad account mapping. I'm unclear if my name goes to mulvad, but it does to mozilla.

Yes with mulvad you can pay anonymously via cash or bitcoin or whatever, but assuming you aren't doing that, using mozvpn seems potentially safer than mulvad - as you'd have to compromise both mulvad and mozilla to link my name/credit card with the vpn used.

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

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Post by jpc0 »

ziddoap wrote: post #328
sneak wrote: post #216

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Everyone dealing with gmail is doing so because they chose to. Let’s not pretend this was done unto them. Anyone can stop using gmail at any time.

> Anyone can stop using gmail at any time. Just going to copy/paste this part of the comment you replied to, because it seems like you may have missed it? > My company uses gmail so I'm forced to use it.

GSuite/Workspace and consumer GMail is not the same thing in the slightest. They may use the same mail servers but that is about where the similarity ends.

I would recommend Google Workspace to any company because it gives them a ton of business productivity tools.

I would probably not recommend gmail as a users default personal email because frankly it's not that good.

The reality is most users have a Google account ans just use their Gmail account which is bundled.

Most of my circle which cares effectively use their Gmail account for sites that insist on it and never open that e-mail if they can get away with it.

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

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Post by jjav »

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…

> Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit...

What makes me sad is that if we go back a handful of years here in HN comments, there were tons of posts assuredly stating google would never do anything like this.

Even though it should have been obvious that a company who lives and dies by ad revenue will of course do everything to protect ad revenue and block users freedom.

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

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Post by gkbrk »

warkdarrior wrote: post #677
gkbrk wrote: post #510

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It blocks less ads, it's not surprising that it's faster.

I thought the browser would be faster when blocking more ads, not fewer ads.

I doubt they're benchmarking things properly. Most likely some flawed "ad blocking speed" that doesn't measure ads and tracking scripts that are loaded / parsed etc.

Not even sure it's a valid comparison; are you even an ad blocker that can be compared with another ad blocker if you don't block ads properly. You can get a lot more speedup with an ad blocker that blocks nothing. Ad blocking speed would be 0 microseconds :P

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

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Post by baxuz »

I've been a happy user of Adguard for over 5 years, on all my devices, so I am luckily unaffected by this.

So far it seems to be the only general solution that can inject cosmetic filters into network requests while blocking on a request (not dns-only) level.

https://adguard.com/en/blog/mv2-extensions-no-longer-alterna...

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

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Post by squarefoot »

lolinder wrote: post #706
squarefoot wrote: post #579

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As long as Google pays them to remain alive to reinforce the narrative that Chrome isn't a monopoly.

That deal is on the chopping block as part of the DOJ's lawsuit.

Yep, very likely.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-...

Now, why do I have this feeling that it will be bought by some entity very close to the current US administration?

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