Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome
by mimasama on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:27AM
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Well, I'm addressing the "real issue" part of your comment. Whether people switch over it is their choice (I've already switched to another browser as my primary years ago, and it's not Gecko, Blink, or WebKit). But just because other bad, worse stuff exist doesn't mean Mozilla gets a pass on trying to sneak in a license over people's own content as well as going back on their promise of not selling users' data. Or the history of terrible decisions they made.
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Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome
by GeekyBear on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:48AM
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> going back on their promise of not selling users' data
Given that Google's CEO previously testified before Congress that the company wouldn't use information gleaned from your use of Google services to build out your advertising profile, I don't see "broken privacy promises" as a differentiation between Google and Mozilla.
Especially since Mozilla's post, linked above, says that their legal team now interprets selling ads as technicslly selling personal data in some jurisdictions.
They do have ads on new tabs, even if you can turn that off.
Again, I'm not seeing any reason not to switch to a browser where effective ad blocking will still work.