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cm0002@literature.cafe to Privacy@programming.dev · 1 month ago

Google is Killing uBlock Origin in Chrome

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Google is Killing uBlock Origin in Chrome

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cm0002@literature.cafe to Privacy@programming.dev · 1 month ago
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Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good
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  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    I can think of no greater gift they can give Firefox.

    Yes, I know there are better browsers, but Firefox will probably see the biggest bump in users.

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      They might eventually try to pressure Firefox as well, as google is actually the largest funding contributor to Firefox. I wonder what the Open Source license dictates with the GECKO engine that firefox maintains? Could somebody make a fork and profit off of it or would we be forced to a different browser framework entirely?

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        It wouldn’t be the first time they screwed over extension developers (see XUL extensions being discontinued)

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      They are the primary backer of Firefox. I guarantee they are already pressuring Mozilla to follow suite.

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    Google’s stated reasons are technical: MV3 is supposedly more secure (for data collection and ad delivery), more performant (for data collection and ads), reduces complexity (to collect your data and serve ads).

    There, I fixed it.

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      MV3 is supposedly more secure (for data collection and ad delivery)

      More secure from adblockers too. They’re protecting the ads.

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    Why is Proton still on Substack, the Nazi platform?

    Of course, wouldn’t be the first fascist-adjacent thing they’ve done…

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Is youtube a nazi platform, too? You can find all sorts of nazi bullshit there.

      Substack has plenty of good content creators.

    • Elting@piefed.social
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      No such thing as a Nazi sympathizer.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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      Substack, the Nazi platform?

      Could you explain what you mean by that?

      • Lemmayng@lemmy.world
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        https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

        https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/

        https://www.techpolicy.press/substack-founder-defends-commercial-relationships-with-nazis/

        https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/substack-profited-from-paid-nazi-and-holocaust-denial-newsletters-investigation-finds/

        https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/business/substack-nazis-content-moderation.html

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          Thanks.

          In any case, that’s not NAZI-ism, but simply late-stage capitalism at work. They have no shame, honor, morality, or genuine human concern… it’s simply about the money, like loads of other places, sadly.

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
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    Yeah it’s been a while. That’s why I’m using Firefox among other things.

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    I really thought that they already had? Wasn’t that what all the copious copium that Brave Broswer Boys were spreading was all about? The, “no actually I don’t mind that’s it’s chrome based because they have such good Adblock” argument.

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    “It’S fOr YoUr SeCuRiTy!”

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    lol

    lmao even

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