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Of course Google don't mention uBO by name. But this is the real reason they are doing it. Privacy is just a pretext. uBO lite will still be available but it w
by xdennis 3y ago
Of course Google don't mention uBO by name. But this is the real reason they are doing it. Privacy is just a pretext.
uBO lite will still be available but it will be very nerfed.
Hopefully people move to Firefox, but I'm not so optimistic. It took a huge campaign to get people to move from IE6 to Firefox, and I'm not certain it can be replicated with Chrome.
- ge96 3y agoWhat is the nerfing reason between 2/3?
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- Scion9066 3y agoSwitching to an extension providing a list of things to block or redirect to the browser rather than the extension having access to all content on every page that you visit. I'd imagine that people don't vet extensions nearly as much as they should for the access they give them to all their web browser traffic. Not to mention an extension that is okay now may not be once sold to someone else (for those extension developers not as honorable as those of uBlock Origin and hoverzoom).
- ge96 3y agoOh man I've seen that happen before eg. a JSON parser I feel the same. It's crazy what kind of extensions people just use, there is one called Snov or something, to add a pixel in emails... it's like dude, you gave this random company access to read your emails... idk. which yeah... UBO but still that's open source at least. An extension you can view the source sure.
- soraminazuki 3y agouBO is more exceptional than typical open source extensions. Its developers has shown themselves to be much more trustworthy and well-intentioned than Google.
- dabockster 3y agoI think, at some point, people should have the right to be stupid on their computers. What needs to change is holding them liable if their negligence affects others.
- konart 3y agoManifest v3 is killing current WebRequest API so you won't be able to filter requests on the fly (sort of playing man in the middle). This means uBlock won't be as effective because once web request is done\page\script is loaded - it is impossible to stop it from loading other scripts. Also it limits how many or what urls can be filtered at all if I'm not mistaken.
- mmis1000 3y agoPlus the new api don't even prevent you from peeking the traffic. Only prevent you from modify it. How is this able to improve privacy? And the biggest user of traffic modification? You got it, it's all sorts of adblocks. They are literally not trying to hide it. Or they should probably also limit apis that are able to peeking the traffics.