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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think many people use Vivaldi. Also it is mostly proprietary so that's a hard pass for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Only the UI part is not open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

What's the point of keeping part of the UI closed source?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Partially proprietary still means proprietary.