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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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

submitted 1 day ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Funny as the internet was designed as being free.

Maybe just educate yourself a little. In general, not just about that.

[–] lemmus@szmer.info -3 points 6 hours ago

Oh well? I think you should educate yourself a little, it was never designed to be free, it was designed for army for long distance fast and reliable communication, later evolved to be a service, no service is free, providers aren't gods to give you anything for free.