Switching to Firefox, Concerned with UBlock Origin Changes

Re:Switching to Firefox, Concerned with UBlock Origin Changes by xkapastel on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:44PM (#19087535)

What makes you think it's unlikely? The Chromium team seems unreceptive to the idea that e.g. `webRequest`'s ability to block a request entirely is a security/privacy feature, and instead views it as a bug to be fixed.

I haven't seen anything in the discussion thread that makes me think the Chromium team might decide to change course: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

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Re:Switching to Firefox, Concerned with UBlock Origin Changes by jzl on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:36PM (#19091914)

I read through that whole discussion the other day and thought this was the best comment:

Is a browser something fundamentally under the user's control, or is it something fundamentally under the corporate entity's control?

Asked in a poignant way, is Chrome my agent, or is it really just an agent of Google?

By directing my browser to someone's website, am I necessarily giving up all permission to a (well-placed) cabal to take over my computer and do with it as they collectively wish? After all, detecting of ad blockers or objectionable behaviors done via extensions remains perfectly feasible: if you don't want to show me your content under my configured extension regime, you aren't forced to.

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