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Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024 (sh.reddit.com)

submitted 11 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Would that not violate net neutrality laws?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do we still have those?

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

And even if you did, would they matter?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They just put them back in place, at least some of them.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

No. Net neutrality is about ISPs, not about applications. It might violate anti-trust, but the military is a major counterweight to any attempts at disrupting Google (among others)