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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    18 days ago

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

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        13 days ago

        Yes. The Google-funded Firefox that won’t take away your ability to block ads. Any other questions?

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            13 days ago

            How are they doing that? They’re simply making money by putting Google search as the default. Changing it literally takes a few seconds.

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              13 days ago

              They developed the “privacy sandbox” together. And in terms of cashflow, they depend on that google money. They’re in trouble without it

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                They developed the “privacy sandbox” together.

                Yeah that’s not true.

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                  13 days ago

                  Chrome came up with that feature a while back. Now firefox is adding the same. And then later I learned it was a cooperative effort, just not under the same name

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                    13 days ago

                    And then later I learned it was a cooperative effort, just not under the same name

                    Source?

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                13 days ago

                And in terms of cashflow, they depend on that google money. They’re in trouble without it

                That’s irrelevant. The only thing important is what they have to do for that money, which is setting Google as the default search engine. This only “hurts” you if you don’t take 15 seconds to change the default.

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                  Well, yes, technically. But then again, if google decides to stop doing that firefox can’t pay for it’s staff or infrastructure. Really, they have an incentive to listen