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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] 68 points 2 years ago (1 child)

...Oh, no! Anyway. Just giving people one more reason to finally make the switch to Firefox or something different.

Google Chrome warns about disabling uBlock Origin. I warn Google Chrome that they're being a little bitch & they're going to lose users.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Oh no, they are about to lose the $0 that uBlock origin users bring!

    They know they will lose users and they don't care. They will make much more per user selling ads than before. Google is an ad company. They're not a browser company, or a mobile OS company, or an office suite company. It's all about ads.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Not necessarily. They still get money from selling user data. So they likely still care about losing users who use adblocking to at least some degree.

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

    Google doesn't sell user data, they sell user eyeballs. There's no incentive for Google to sell user data since they're an ad company and the only people who would buy the data are competitors.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Maybe you're right, I don't have any certainty in this. But I don't buy google's word on this for a second.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/google-ai-lawsuit/index.html

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

    Corpos like to lie, and their promises to not sell data is worthless. Even if they're not outright selling data directly, or "anonymizing it" before selling it, at a bare minimum they're still abusing the hoard of data they have to make a buck. They want that data and get large amounts of it through people's broswers, even with adblockers installed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Your first link talks about Google consuming data for its AI

    Your next two links (which are talking about the same thing) talks about how other companies are abusing Google's adbid system to try and collect correlated data against their own.

    Love it or hate it, Google has been pretty transparent that they use your data for advertising, but nothing there talks about Google selling your data to third parties.

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

    Good point, but also it's not that they will lose all of the user data they sell if people switch off Chrome, just the parts that chrome collects.

    If they were blocking ublock users from accessing any google products then it would be purely a 'we only care about ad revenue'

    It would be very interesting to see the internal data they use to make these decisions, but also knowing tech these decisions were probably made by a series of mid level managers sufficiently sucking the air out of the room until a critical mass was hit to make this happen

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    They absolutely also get data through means other than their browser. But they data they get off of the browser directly is probably a shit load.

    but also knowing tech these decisions were probably made by a series of mid level managers sufficiently sucking the air out of the room until a critical mass was hit to make this happen

    1000%

    I'm sure a bunch of bean counters were involved as well.

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