uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store

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• Stormy1701@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just use Librewolf.

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• bran_buckler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good night, sweet prince.

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  • gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you Mario, but our prince is in another castle!

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only reason they can so this is their near monopoly on the browser market.

  I remember when Chrome was launched, there was a lot of hype around it, everybody talked about how good and fast it was, I downloaded it, tested it and uninstalled it in 15 min, I didn’t like the UI, and didn’t see the speed advantage everyone was talking about.

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  • NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair (I’m also old enough to remember and even still have screenshots of OG chrome on my desktop) –

    Chrome at the time was stupid fast. Like yes we had Firefox, but it was still the era where most people still clicked on the blue “e” and used Internet Explorer.

    OG Chrome was [comparatively] lean and dumb-fast. But you know, enshittification and feature creep. I also think that Google has changed as a company as time has passed, mostly due to new leadership (e.g. Sundar Pichai).

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• kepix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  posts a link directly to an extension that is still available, says its not available.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is expected. We’ve had a lot of warning at this point.

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• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only thing that’s surprising is that it was there to begin with.

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  • NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I switched back after a decade and don’t regret it. In fact, I love that Firefox (desktop) added automatic-PiP. If you’re playing a video, say on YouTube, and you switch tabs, the video continues in PiP until you go back to that tab. I love it.

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    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have 3 monitors, I also watch WAY too much YouTube. This has been one of my favorite things as well, it’s so useful for me.

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• GleezeBoss@lemmy.gleeze.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  test

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  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🙃

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    • GleezeBoss@lemmy.gleeze.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🤪

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• Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is great news for Mozilla

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• Coffeegrinder@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ublock and ublock origin lite are still available.

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  • Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is regular uBlock made by the same guy? I think there was a situation with ublock or something that resulted in origin being made or something like that. I’m not sure if the regular ublock is a good project

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      basically gorhill forked his own project into ‘ublock origin’ and gave the original ‘ublock’ to someone else.

      the original kinda fizzled out after that person tried to solicit donations. ‘ublock’ was then sold to ‘adblock’ and restarted-sorta.

      a few years later, eyeo (known for ‘adblockplus’) bought ‘adblock’ (and with it, what became of the original ‘ublock’).

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    • Coffeegrinder@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is a good question, i didnt know about that. I do know that lite is from the same creator

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• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Last I read, it was still available on Edge if you must use a Chromium browser. I’m using Firefox, so I can’t/won’t bother confirming that is still the case.

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