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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] 2 points 33 minutes ago

uBlock may have enough support to start their own maintained fork, and be the upstream for all the other quiet browsers. That dude is like THE ONE GUY that makes chromium sane, and doesn't even take donations?!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

What pisses me off is seeing more and more "You need to upgrade your browser for this site!" when using Firefox.

Having to use a spoof header gets frustrating frequently too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I love how they gave a TL;DR right at the beginning of the article, it made me stay and read the rest out of respect for the author.

Google lives of the ads (among the things), of course a browser they develop is going to screw the add-ons that block ads. Solution: avoid google if you want an ad-free internet.

Edit: typo