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Google is Killing uBlock Origin in Chrome (protonprivacy.substack.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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[–] 42 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I can think of no greater gift they can give Firefox.

Yes, I know there are better browsers, but Firefox will probably see the biggest bump in users.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Most people don't care sadly. They will just accept adblock is dead and move on, just as many people accept windows being shit.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    just as many people accept windows being shit

    or maybe most people don't actually have problems, and it's only a small vocal minority that really has huge complaints?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It's not just about technical problems, it's much much more. It's ads everywhere, AI everywhere, no privacy everywhere, it's like literally intruding your computer. They are trying to own your computer. If that isn't a problem for you, I have to sadly tell you: you have a problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Idc about you, but I've seen so many people complaining about windows lately, from notepad not being able to start to all of the AI garbage thrown onto your screen - I don't think it's just a "minority" that has a gripe with windows. They are just too lazy to switch.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    They might eventually try to pressure Firefox as well, as google is actually the largest funding contributor to Firefox. I wonder what the Open Source license dictates with the GECKO engine that firefox maintains? Could somebody make a fork and profit off of it or would we be forced to a different browser framework entirely?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Firefox and (all I think) of its components are licensed with the MPL 2.0. This means everyone is free to fork it and build their own product with it (free or for profit is not a criteria for FLOSS licenses), given that changes to the forked code must be made publicly available.

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