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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I hope they end up killing Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think you're being optimistic about the number of people who both use adblockers and who care enough to switch browsers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

Yeah I fear society will get to the point in corporate autocracy, or corporate-feudalism where Google sues uBlock Origin out of existence (for lost revenue).

...and that'll be a dark day, and it will be hard not to blame the people who just put up with ads and a loss of privacy. Who can just stomach Surveillance Capitalism's incredibly flawed and one sided nature.

Those people are laying bricks for the foundation of a society I don't agree with, and don't want to participate in.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What? They’re not going to kill their own browser that they virtually exclusively control. Why would they kill one of their biggest cash cows? Google is an ad company, and they want control of the client software that we use which they pump ads to and exfiltrate our identities from.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Whoosh

I think they were talking about Chrome becoming obsolete. Unlikely but not impossible