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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 Novack »

novemp wrote: post #453
fyrabanks wrote: post #311

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You can still install uBlock Origin in Brave, assuming you don't mind the crypto stuff and how they pay it out (or, rather don't) to site owners. Even Firefox feels a little weird now with the advent of Mozilla Advertising. Very much a lesser of all evils situation.

Another day, another subtle insinuation that Brave is the only Chrome fork anyone uses. Are you people being paid to do this?

It is not a subtle insinuation, Brave is the defacto only browser apart from Chrome right now. All the rest are niche and irrelevant if you measure adblock, compatibility and widely subpar privacy protection.

There is some bitching about the ads crypto token, but that is entirely optional, so complaints are mostly fear and dogma. And to be honest, is a fascinating new approach to ads that suvberts the current state of affairs in the advertising market.

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

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Post by lolc »

glenstein wrote: post #486
JasserInicide wrote: post #389

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I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions Don't worry, they won't. They have more important endeavors like funding some new bullshit virtue signalling campaign and paying huge CEO bonuses.

It's like a never-ending horde of zombies that comes in and makes this cheap shot over and over. My understanding is the CEO makes slightly more than 1% of their revenues. And it's actually low compared to the typical tech CEO. But what's the story of cause and effect here such that if they'd invested 1% of their revenue differently, they would jump from 3% market share back to 30% or wherever they were previously? O…

It's weird to me how this salary is being normalized. A "typical tech CEO" is incompatible with the mission of Mozilla.

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

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Post by opan »

jpc0 wrote: post #861
opan wrote: post #691

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>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?

I'm simply saying that they didn't, and thus they did have to "open" it, or rather keep it "open".

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

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Post by zamalek »

xnx wrote: post #910
zamalek wrote: post #906

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FF mobile has mv2 support, as does its many forks.

Yes. I used Firefox on Android for a long time, but I was annoyed by the performance and inability to save page as MHTML (that's a very niche peeve).

Depending on how long ago that was, it might be worth checking back in with it. It had a complete rewrite a few years back and it's now just as good as chrome mobile - I use IronFox, but there are also a few other forks.

Still doesn't do mhtml though.

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

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Post by glenstein »

lolc wrote: post #942
glenstein wrote: post #486

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like a never-ending horde of zombies that comes in and makes this cheap shot over and over. My understanding is the CEO makes slightly more than 1% of their revenues. And it's actually low compared to the typical tech CEO. But what's the story of cause and effect here such that if they'd invested 1% of their revenue differently, they would jump from 3% market share back to 30% or wherever they were previously? O…

It's weird to me how this salary is being normalized. A "typical tech CEO" is incompatible with the mission of Mozilla.

Mozilla is by any estimation executing a mission within the tech industry space so I'm not sure what you are talking about.

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

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Post by ajolly »

dogzandcatz wrote: post #792

Idea/Question/Possibility If uBlock Origin uses filters, would it not be possible to build a program that acts as a "proxy" for Linux/macOS/Windows, etc., that uses the same or similarly crafted filters to do something akin to what some of us did back in the Flash LSO supercookie days? I was a Linux user then and I recall creating a symlink from .macromedia and .adobe to /dev/null. The cookies were written to their f…

AdGuard does this

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

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Post by lolinder »

carlosjobim wrote: post #893
lolinder wrote: post #713

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That's enough to be (apparently) profitable. It doesn't matter if most people don't pay for search as long as enough people do that paid search can exist. https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi

Agreed. But let's not say that it's evidence that "people" in the aggregate are willing to pay for web search.

Why not? People is the plural of person.

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

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Post by AstralSerenity »

culi wrote: post #692
AstralSerenity wrote: post #213

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My understanding is Mozilla contracted its footprint substantially to remain sustainable in a future without Google's monetary contribution.

Yup. Firefox Relay, their own VPN, MDN Plus, and many more. The funny thing is that the same people on here that crow on about Mozilla needing to "just focus on Firefox" are the same ones who complains about its reliance on Google for income. Based on their interop performances Mozilla seems to be doing the best they can to do both. Firefox interop has improved significantly in the past 4 years (surprisingly, so has…

In a perfect world, I would have liked to see Firefox build what is now the Proton suite of apps.

I would still like to see Proton fork Firefox and operate their own browser once they've matured further.

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