We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] 35 points 2 years ago*

I love how they gave a TL;DR right at the beginning of the article, it made me stay and read the rest out of respect for the author.

Google lives of the ads (among the things), of course a browser they develop is going to screw the add-ons that block ads. Solution: avoid google if you want an ad-free internet.

Edit: typo

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What pisses me off is seeing more and more "You need to upgrade your browser for this site!" when using Firefox.

    Having to use a spoof header gets frustrating frequently too.

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

    This has been done for decades. It is PR 101, and it is done to indoctrinate and subsequently normalize XYZ onto the average consumer/citizen.

    In Marketing, you get taught that the average person has a memory of 3 to 6 months for issues like this, at the most. So, if you can afford to stretch something for longer, than acceptance on average, will always go up. Attention span are short. In other cases, it alleviates any cases of legal liability. Since no one can say they were not warned.

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

    uBlock may have enough support to start their own maintained fork, and be the upstream for all the other quiet browsers. That dude is like THE ONE GUY that makes chromium sane, and doesn't even take donations?!

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    My dad used to watch TV and I always wondered why given how shit it was, nothing but ads. He told me about how great it used to be when he was a kid. I can't help think the same thing is happening now with the internet. It's dying. It's already shit compared to 10 years ago and I only see it getting worse. Our generations will cling to it remembering what it used to be though, just like he did.

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

    In an ideal world the headline would be “Google kills Chrome by preventing users from blocking ads”.

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

    I finally switched to Firefox when I couldn't remove the ads on my casual browsing. Now I'm told Firefox isn't cash money either? Wtf is going on here.

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