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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by tptacek on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:22PM (#21032861)
The actual right fix here is for Google to give a blanket exemption to uBO and to nothing else. That's what security people want them to do. Because the underappreciated problem here is that while uBO is fine, ad blockers in general are security tire fires.
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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by loeg on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:52PM (#21033191)
Totally agree that's the right engineering fix! I just don't see it happening for dollar and cent reasons:

> The moral dilemma here seems to be that Google is unwilling to privilege a good-citizen adblocker like uBO over other extensions; they're an ad company and any explicit step towards promoting an adblocker probably is hard to explain at shareholder meetings

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21032698

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by p4t44 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @04:33AM (#21034186)
Or they could apply some level of moderation to the web store, like Mozilla has done.
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