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I love Chromium on Android, but not having uBlock origin makes me stick with Firefox (or Mull).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wonder why they haven’t nuked them on desktop Chrome then, where extensions are a plenty?

Extensions are so popular on PC browsers, that Google could really jeopardize their dominant market share, if they were to completely remove extension support. The press would be on it for weeks and there could be a real hit on user numbers.

I think that Google rather tolerates the small number of users who use extensions and doesn't want bad PR for Chrome on PC.

But I wouldn't be surprised, when Google tries this in the future, when their browser market share is over 90%.

The game is different for mobile though – here we have a much bigger majority of unexperienced users who likely have never heard of browser extensions or such possibilities as easy-one-click-installation of ad-blockers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I suppose a good canary on that then would be Google taking away the manual setting of PrivateDNS and making it only their DNS, in the name of some security threat/other reason.