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This. The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin. If Google makes good on their threat of disabling adblockers, I'll ditch Chrome i

This. The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin. If Google makes good on their threat of disabling adblockers, I'll ditch Chrome immediately. I was a lifelong Firefox user until a few years ago, when I just had to admit that Chrome was significantly better. But without ublock, any advantage it has becomes meaningless.

1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
"The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin." I thought uBlock Origin was only for certain web browsers, i.e., it is specifically for the www only (cf. the internet).
- sigmoid10 2y ago
  You should work for Google's legal team. They also love this twisted kind of pedantism.
- encom 2y ago
  Weak bait, but I'll bite. This consent crap is everywhere. My car asks me *EVERY* time I start it, if it can spy on me. There's no option to accept or deny forever.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
  "Tech bros" and so-called "tech" companies peddling surveillance websites that they call "platforms" would like the public to believe the web is "the internet". This of course is not true. It's a purely web-centric, and "web browser"-centric, perspective that denies fact: the internet is more than the www. A tech bro 100% focused on "web apps" and other garbage might claim that anyone citing the fact that "the internet" is more than the web is "a twisted form of pedantism". After all, the web is where the majority of online advertising is found. This is the tech bro "business model" and web-centrism is therefore vigorously defended. Fortunately the rest of the internet beyond the web (as accessed through popular web browsers that deliver online advertising) is usable without uBlock Origin, although controlling DNS is often essential. Big Tech with their online advertising "business model" may control "the web". And we can see that has resulted in a sewer of advertising. But the web is only one use of the internet amongst many, many others that are not used to deliver advertising.
  - MiguelX413 2y ago
    I disagree.
orev 2y ago
Better start installing Firefox then. They already removed Ublock Origin from the extension site so you can’t install on new systems anymore. (There’s probably some hoops you can jump through to install it, but the writing is on the wall)

1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago

"The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin." I thought uBlock Origin was only for certain web browsers, i.e., it is specifically for the www only (cf. the internet).

sigmoid10 2y ago
You should work for Google's legal team. They also love this twisted kind of pedantism.
encom 2y ago
Weak bait, but I'll bite. This consent crap is everywhere. My car asks me *EVERY* time I start it, if it can spy on me. There's no option to accept or deny forever.
1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
"Tech bros" and so-called "tech" companies peddling surveillance websites that they call "platforms" would like the public to believe the web is "the internet". This of course is not true. It's a purely web-centric, and "web browser"-centric, perspective that denies fact: the internet is more than the www. A tech bro 100% focused on "web apps" and other garbage might claim that anyone citing the fact that "the internet" is more than the web is "a twisted form of pedantism". After all, the web is where the majority of online advertising is found. This is the tech bro "business model" and web-centrism is therefore vigorously defended. Fortunately the rest of the internet beyond the web (as accessed through popular web browsers that deliver online advertising) is usable without uBlock Origin, although controlling DNS is often essential. Big Tech with their online advertising "business model" may control "the web". And we can see that has resulted in a sewer of advertising. But the web is only one use of the internet amongst many, many others that are not used to deliver advertising.
- MiguelX413 2y ago
  I disagree.

orev 2y ago

Better start installing Firefox then. They already removed Ublock Origin from the extension site so you can’t install on new systems anymore. (There’s probably some hoops you can jump through to install it, but the writing is on the wall)