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 ...

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 …

    • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Why would anyone use that browser though? Besides all the rounds of shit it went through, the CEO seems like a nutcase. First he does anti-lgbt political donations, not just once, and has to resign from Mozilla among outrage after only 21 days as the CEO. Then he tweets uninformed shit about covid and has his staff remove criticism on reddit. Sounds like a real champ.

      • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I mean I write Javascript, also his crestion so theres that.

        I know some gay people who love Javascript and its always funny to remind them what the original creator of Javascript did

    • sushibowl@feddit.nlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It’s addressed in the article. The brave CEO has stated they will continue to support manifest v2 as long as the needed code remains in Chromium. He made no promises what happens when it is removed, though (“I don’t write checks of unknown amount and sign them”)

      • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        So that means they are just supporting it as long as it is easy to do, and that they are not brave enough to fork chromium.

        • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          3 months ago

          They’re already a fork of Chromium… Also it doesn’t matter much since they use the Google extension store, which disabled uBO.

          You could probably install and handle a manifest V2 extension by installing the xpi file manually. But as a developer, the users who would actually do this is a small fraction of the previous user base.

          So how do you justify your limited manpower to be spent on that increasingly obscure user base? It may as well be removed anyways at that point.