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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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[–] 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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