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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 108 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thank you Google I hope shitty moves like this drives enough people away to better browsers like Firefox. It desperately needs a bigger market share.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not only a bigger market share. What's keeping Firefox alive is the financial support they get from Google. If enough people move from Chrome to Firefox without Firefox also securing finances from elsewhere, Google could easily kill Firefox by just not giving them money and we'd all be left with just Chromium.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think the real reason Google is funding Firefox is because they're afraid of being targeted in antitrust lawsuits. As long as Firefox is around, they have someone they can point to, to say they're not a monopoly.

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