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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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 ...

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

People you can still block the shit of using DNS Adblockers . There are a some free like Mullvad DNS and Adguard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

That’s not as effective, since it can’t block anything that’s hosted from a hostname that also serves regular content without also blocking the regular content. It also can’t trick websites into thinking that nothing is blocked and it can’t apply cosmetic rules. I use it for my devices, but in browsers I supplement it with uBlock Origin (or whatever is available in that browser).