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 extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

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 …

  • tekato@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In an ideal world the headline would be “Google kills Chrome by preventing users from blocking ads”.

      • tekato@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Yes. The Google-funded Firefox that won’t take away your ability to block ads. Any other questions?

          • tekato@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            How are they doing that? They’re simply making money by putting Google search as the default. Changing it literally takes a few seconds.

            • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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              2 months ago

              They developed the “privacy sandbox” together. And in terms of cashflow, they depend on that google money. They’re in trouble without it

              • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
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                2 months ago

                They developed the “privacy sandbox” together.

                Yeah that’s not true.

                • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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                  2 months ago

                  Chrome came up with that feature a while back. Now firefox is adding the same. And then later I learned it was a cooperative effort, just not under the same name

                  • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
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                    2 months ago

                    And then later I learned it was a cooperative effort, just not under the same name

                    Source?

              • tekato@lemmy.world
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                2 months ago

                And in terms of cashflow, they depend on that google money. They’re in trouble without it

                That’s irrelevant. The only thing important is what they have to do for that money, which is setting Google as the default search engine. This only “hurts” you if you don’t take 15 seconds to change the default.

                • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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                  2 months ago

                  Well, yes, technically. But then again, if google decides to stop doing that firefox can’t pay for it’s staff or infrastructure. Really, they have an incentive to listen

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      History repeats itself.

      Some Old Thing (software/website/service/whatever) becomes bad, and people get really upset. Initially, many say that SOT is going to die. Techies switch from SOT to New Great Thing. For a while, techies at NGT celebrate and pat each other on the back for making this brilliant move.

      Meanwhile, normies at SOT continue to use it. They hate it at first or even complain about it, but eventually they get used to how bad SOT is. Every now and then, they hear about NGT, but they just can’t switch because reasons.

      After a few years it’s clear that, SOT hasn’t died yet, but also continues to have quite a few users too. Some people end up using both, while a small group of people vow to never touch SOT ever again. SOT and NGT both continue to exist, because apparently there are enough users for both.

      I’ve seen these things happen so many times, that it’s about time to point out that there’s a pattern. Just look back at any tech controversy over the past 30 years and you can see it usually follows this pattern pretty well.