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Re:A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web S... by gtirloni on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:22AM (#21233827)
I'm not talking from an idealist/paternalist point of view about what I think is good for users. I'm talking about letting users decide. And they seem to have decided, according to market share, that they like Chrome.

Yes, users could be clueless and be trading personal privacy unwittingly but that's not what I mean about "serves users very well". I meant users look at Chrome, Firefox and others and stick to Chrome. If they didn't like Chrome, they would switch.

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Re:A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web S... by jacquesm on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:20PM (#21234270)
Users have not 'decided', they've had something rammed down their throats that they might not have picked if not for some pretty obvious anti-competitive behavior by Google.

By your book might makes right, because Google was able to push users to convert in various ways - some of which should be or even are illegal - and it worked for them they must be delivering something that people need. But it wasn't a free choice.

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