Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by 6510 on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:09AM (#42508421)

If I donate to your project I hope the money goes towards your project. If you spend it on beer or buy Jacuzzi I'm happy too. If you chose to spend it on other projects ill be excited to learn what they are.

https://future.mozilla.org/projects/

Do you use any of that? Is there anything there I should be using? (honest question) It seems premature to donate to things I don't know.

> Solo helps entrepreneurs expand their web presence with a suite of AI-backed tools for building websites, optimizing for SEO, and showcasing your best work.

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> Improve brand visibility: SEO keywords are automatically added to help drive search traffic. View statistics by connecting a Google Analytics account.

I'm very biased no doubt, it reads like I donate to progress the commercial web, more canned template websites, product SEO and to promote the use of google analytics. I'm sure it is awesome to some people, to me it is the opposite, I'm sure it is a project that should exist some place but I don't want to pay for it.

The web browser can still be infinitely improved.

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Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by krabizzwainch on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:26AM (#42508914)

Clicked the future projects link. Thought the DidThis project sounded interesting. Aaaannnddd it's already a dead project as of 2 months ago.

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Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by emptysongglass on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:16AM (#42509477)

I mean Llamafile is great and is built on fantastic tech, but no I definitely want my Mozilla money to go to Firefox, not what Thing is currently in vogue by Mozilla execs.

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Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by debugnik on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @05:29PM (#42511617)

> If I donate to your project I hope the money goes towards your project.

Firefox is not a project of the Mozilla Foundation, but the Mozilla Corporation, so you just can't donate to Firefox at all; in fact, the money flows the opposite direction between them. I know it's frustrating but this argument is misleading yet keeps showing up in every thread.

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Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by 6510 on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @08:19PM (#42512469)

Fascinating, thanks for the explanation/correction, it makes it even worse than I thought.

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Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by kumarsw on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:01AM (#42522584)

I don't know about their other expenses, but SEO/advertising is probably one of their better uses of money even if we don't like it. It's hard to gain market share against a browser that is pitched each time you do a Google search no matter how good the product is.

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