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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.

  • @BlameTheAntifaEnglish
    64•5 months ago

    Google Chrome reminds uBlock Origin users to switch to Firefox.

  • @abcdqfrEnglish
    13•5 months ago

    Holds hole saw menacingly to own boat

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    5•5 months ago

    Firefox and Librewolf have problems. However, they are somehow better than Chrome.

    • melroy
      1•5 months ago

      Don’t forget other alternatives as well like Floorp and Waterfox.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        Not as private and Floorp includes proprietary components. I am not sure about waterfox.

        • melroy
          1•5 months ago

          That is not true indeed. As Onihikage pointed out the developer released all source code.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•5 months ago

    Luckily the one webapp that I have to use chrome for doesn’t even have ads or tracking on it. I use Firefox for everything else, so uBlock will continue working fine for me.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•5 months ago

    I have a hypothetical question on this.

    If say, I had a crypto wallet via extension in chrome.

    And unlock origin goes away.

    I then visit a site I used to visit where pop ups were blocked

    Malware gets installed. Crypto wallet gets drained.

    Can I sue Google ?

    I ask because I do have a tiny wallet that is via extension. Curious how someone with a much larger one on there would go…

    • BrikoXOPMEnglish
      3•5 months ago

      Terms of service you agreed to when installing it protects them from all liability.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 months ago

        While I agree.

        Part of me thinks it’s like “we removed the seatbelts from the rollercoaster. It’s now your responsibility to hold on”…

        • BrikoXOPMEnglish
          5•5 months ago

          That’s why laws that mandate safety are important. Seatbelts on rollercoasters are mandatory, while tech companies can pretty much put anything in terms of service since they have enough of the politicians in their pocket that nobody outlaws it.

    • @WarlordSdocyEnglish
      3•5 months ago

      Don’t think Google would be at fault there, at most it would be the fault of the website that served you the ad or the service that website used to serve you the ad. (Which could be Google but they wouldn’t be at fault for not letting you block ads, they would be at fault for serving you a malicious ad)

  • @[email protected]English
    2•5 months ago

    Excellent news. Google needs to think up more creative ways to punish people for using Chrome.