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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[–] yoz@aussie.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I know people who don't care about ublock so I guess it's not relevant. People who care about ad blockers should just move to Firefox or brave

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Brave is chromium

[–] Emeraldlink25@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Brave has a built-in adblock. No extensions required.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 hours ago

The www has already gone to shit anyway thanks to SEO bullshit websites and AI generated garbage. Most of my online interactions are via applications these days. The more these companies ruin the www the less I find myself using a web browser.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

What is this "chrome" thing I keep reading about? Be right back, my wolf needs to be fed.

[–] Soluna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 hours ago

Here's hoping this pushes more people to Firefox

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

In other news:

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I wonder if the web itself may bifurcate. Corporate, government, and most NGO websites will only respond to corporate browsers that run sanctioned DRM binary blobs to “verify” their “safety”. And then there is us, with our websites and our web clients.

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

librewolf

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

Librewolf is fine for now, but it is small tweaks tracking FF’s codebase. I think that given Mozilla’s trajectory, at some point someone will have to do a hard fork.

Someone could do a hard fork of Chromium now, for that matter, but I’m not aware of any so far.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

It seemed a lot more reasonable 15 years ago. The default on Windows at the time of Chrome's rise was Internet Explorer.

I am watching Ladybird with great interest. The world needs a new-from-the-ground-up browser.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Either ground-up or a hard fork. Or both. Both is good.