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You're thinking far too 1984 when the answer is much more Brave New World - if the ad blocker in Chrome is good enough, people will just stop supporting UBlock.
by debacle 10y ago
You're thinking far too 1984 when the answer is much more Brave New World - if the ad blocker in Chrome is good enough, people will just stop supporting UBlock.
- CoryG89 10y agoNo one supports uBlock. Browsers would have to specifically block the extension if they wanted to keep people from using it.
- untog 10y ago> Browsers would have to specifically block the extension if they wanted to keep people from using it. Which Google have done to other extensions many times.
- etatoby 10y agoYes, it's possible—I would say probable—that after introducing their "impartial" ad blocker, whose rules for acceptable ads just so happen to allow all of their ads through, and after enabling it by default on their browser, they will actively block all other ad blockers, on "privacy and security" grounds.
- colordrops 10y agoNaw, Google has precedent for this sort of behavior, going so far as removing plugins from their web store and quietly uninstalling them from Chrome with no notification when the plugin interfered with their business model. They actively uninstalled video download plugins without notification to the user a couple years back. Nefarious.
- ziikutv 10y ago* Download Ublock zip * Enable Developer Options * Add Ublock package zip * Enable in Incognito as well TL;DR: Them removing it would be a dick move, but not end of the world. We can still install any packages we want.
- apostacy 10y agoI think you are severely misunderstanding the situation. Google can do whatever they want. They've already demonstrated that they have no problem installing things on your computer that you never would have otherwise agreed to. That, and they don't take no for an answer with updates.
- etatoby 10y agoDo they? I just downgraded Chrome for Android to 56, because the latest one would crash when playing live video streams. Granted, Play Store didn't have that option, so I had to download the APK from a third-party site and disable automatic updates for it, but nothing prevented me from doing either thing.
- apostacy 10y agoYes, you still can on Android. But Google has shown that they don't see anything morally wrong with using misleading updating tactics. And the range of what you have control over is shrinking. I commented about it about a month ago[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13950975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13950975
- _Wintermute 10y agoYou can also use other web browsers.