cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20260243
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.
As soon as there’s another spectre level security incident that requires a massive rewrite of the engine, any rendering engine developers with sub 100M budgets are sunk. Frankly 100M is probably being optimistic.
Eh. Like I said… financial shit I don’t care about.
Spectre wasn’t even Firefox’s fault. It was a CPU vulnerability.
In the end, if an open source browser cannot step up, some other will and take its place. I’m okay with that.
You may not care about financial shit, but that doesn’t change the reality of the situation. My point is precisely that the financial costs are so prohibitive, that the most likely scenario is that no one will be capable of stepping up long term.
I don’t know, man. Look at where big projects are at right now. Blender, Gimp, Linux, Inkscape, KDNLive…
It can happen.
But anyway. The day I can’t use a secure, open-source web browser is the day I’ll stop web browsing. Just like when I decided to never buy commercial music, go to the movies or buy a Smart TV.