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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

Yeah I fear society will get to the point in corporate autocracy, or corporate-feudalism where Google sues uBlock Origin out of existence (for lost revenue).

...and that'll be a dark day, and it will be hard not to blame the people who just put up with ads and a loss of privacy. Who can just stomach Surveillance Capitalism's incredibly flawed and one sided nature.

Those people are laying bricks for the foundation of a society I don't agree with, and don't want to participate in.