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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/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I think Brave said they arent affected by this

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why would anyone use that browser though? Besides all the rounds of shit it went through, the CEO seems like a nutcase. First he does anti-lgbt political donations, not just once, and has to resign from Mozilla among outrage after only 21 days as the CEO. Then he tweets uninformed shit about covid and has his staff remove criticism on reddit. Sounds like a real champ.

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago)

I mean I write Javascript, also his crestion so theres that.

I know some gay people who love Javascript and its always funny to remind them what the original creator of Javascript did

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's addressed in the article. The brave CEO has stated they will continue to support manifest v2 as long as the needed code remains in Chromium. He made no promises what happens when it is removed, though ("I don't write checks of unknown amount and sign them")

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

So that means they are just supporting it as long as it is easy to do, and that they are not brave enough to fork chromium.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

They're already a fork of Chromium... Also it doesn't matter much since they use the Google extension store, which disabled uBO.

You could probably install and handle a manifest V2 extension by installing the xpi file manually. But as a developer, the users who would actually do this is a small fraction of the previous user base.

So how do you justify your limited manpower to be spent on that increasingly obscure user base? It may as well be removed anyways at that point.

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 15 minutes ago

Also like Brave has their own adblocker, I dont think you need ublock origin in Brave

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago

And guess how soon Chromium will break compatibility with v2...

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago

Ha! Ha! The browser name is "Brave" and yet they all have nuts the size of raisins!