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

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We’ve been anticipating it for years, and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.

Now that it is finally happening, many seem to be oddly resigned to the idea that Google is taking away the best and most powerful ad content blocker available on any web browser today, with one article recommending people set up a DNS based content blocker on their network 😒 – instead of more obvious solutions.

I may not have blogged about this but I recently read an article from 1999 about why Gopher lost out to the Web, where Christopher Lee discusses the importance of the then-novel term “mind share” and how it played an important part in dictating why the web won out. In my last post, I touched on the importance of good information to democracies – the same applies to markets (including the browser market) – and it seems to me that we aren’t getting good information about this topic.

This post is me trying to give you that information, to help increase the mind share of an actual alternative. Enjoy!

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

Honestly I'd say the Internet isn't safe, and it's because of Google, fuck you Google. It's not just the wine I've been drinking, it's true dammit.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago

Welcome back to Firefox everyone! At least if you're as old or older than I. 😁

[–] [email protected] 166 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Switch to Firefox

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We kept Firefox alive for you all these years. You're welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

Also Firefox mobile has nearly all of the extensions as the desktop version so it's more similar across all of your devices. Personally, I use LibreWolf on desktop and Mull on mobile, but they're just tweaked versions of Firefox with some bloat and telemetry removed and preconfigured to be more private.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 days ago (43 children)

Finally made the switch to Firefox just 2 days ago. Great so far.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

You can always keep Chromium installed for the odd site that doesn’t work in Firefox (my daily driver). I do web development and test in every browser and I almost never encounter sites or features that don’t work in FF. The only one I can recall is something in the Azure Portal, probably because Microsoft wants you using Edge.

Typically, Safari is the laggard and any developer worth their salt would make sure their site works on iPad and iPhone. When a new web standard is released, usually Chromium supports it first but even then, not always. And web developers usually don’t use features that aren’t implemented across the board yet. I know I go to caniuse.com before I use something fresh out the oven.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope Lina Kahn goes after them for this BS. They have a monopoly on the browser market and they're exploiting that to further their own interests in the advertising industry.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When was chrome or chromium safe?

Bloated memory hole in the last 10yrs.

The way it goes about Sucking up resources convinced me to switch to Firefox completely long ago.

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