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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

Source?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They developed the "privacy sandbox" together.

Yeah that's not true.

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

The 2FA thing sounds like it's all on the Dropbox side if you are just entering a code you got from an authenticator app. The Google login issue may be a real issue -- did the Google login specifically work on another browser?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Uhh, that doesn't seem normal at all. Is this a default config? Any extensions in use?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What are you a captcha?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

"Vivaldi is closed source, therefore it's harder for users to investigate", which is clearly an inaccurate statement.

Why is it an inaccurate statement?

What user are you thinking of?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You really felt misled that it was harder to inspect? What makes you think I have the expertise to inspect this? I'm not even a user and I wouldn't know where to start to find the ad blocker within that tarball. Would you?

In any case, I clarified why it was harder to inspect - to me it felt obvious that being closed source made it harder to investigate. The fact that it is also shared source really has no bearing to the general observation, especially since we're talking about a 2GB tarball where I don't even know where to start. And I'm a pretty technical person.

How would a user easily investigate this vs. an open source browser?

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago

It is, it is just source available. Still closed source.

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

You're awesome!

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Who's a bot?

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

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

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

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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