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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I feel like this isn’t talked about enough. Sure

just use Firefox

But for how long is it gonna work that way until they too deprecate v2

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Don't worry. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Personally I feel like I'm too addicted to Youtube (and Reddit, which is what brought me back here), so if I can't block ads, perhaps I'll be able to quit. To be honest though, even just disabling watch history and reducing subscriptions makes a massive difference to how addictive it is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm more worried that sites will start to demand it for "security purposes".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It will be either of those two. The effort required to circumvent the restrictions will get increasingly higher. As someone fittingly said a few days ago. Let the 1984 commence.

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

They're the only alternative for now.