Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon

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Discussion (109 points, 7 days ago, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178

Another one

"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable" (chrome.com)

514 points by freedomben 2 days ago | 441 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809698

Pretty good reason to drop chrome immediately.

Pretty good reason to drop Google immediately.

Google is choosing the dark side, as that's the only way to show the 25% YoY growth.

How much does this have to do with rise of chatgpt?

Just use Brave. You'll thank me later ...

Are they still pushing their crypto?

A lot better than pushing user data collection, ads and analytics no?

Brave pushes ads. https://ads-help.brave.com/campaign-performance/targeting/

Ads in Brave are opt-in.

In other words, ads are NOT "pushed" --- *unless* you choose to be paid to receive them.

Even if you do so choose, your history and other personal info never leaves the browser. Any "personalization" is done locally.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026648512-How...

Thank you. Your comment makes me check if there's anything like Brave for Firefox. And here it is: cachyos-v4/cachy-browser 130.0-2 (Firefox is at 131.0.2-1 now).

Nah. The real one to use is Librewolf.

https://librewolf.net/

LibreWolf is indeed very good.

Librewolf is too strict: for example, on slickdeals.net, a link there is like this https://slickdeals.net/click?pno=1011750&lno=1&sdtid=1783030... which leads me to https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-4485850-13804... with which ublock origin asks if I want to continue, I click on the Proceed button and I go the the page https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-4485850-13804171?url=https%253A...... and librewolf sometimes says that it's unable to connect (maybe librewolf doesn't like www.kqzyfj.com?).

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