Good night, sweet prince.
uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store
Submitted 2 weeks ago by MindlessHunter4@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.zip
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
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bran_buckler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Thank you Mario, but our prince is in another castle!
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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).
kepix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
posts a link directly to an extension that is still available, says its not available.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That is expected. We’ve had a lot of warning at this point.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The only thing that’s surprising is that it was there to begin with.
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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.
GleezeBoss@lemmy.gleeze.com 2 weeks ago
test
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This is great news for Mozilla
Coffeegrinder@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Ublock and ublock origin lite are still available.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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’).
Coffeegrinder@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
That is a good question, i didnt know about that. I do know that lite is from the same creator
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks 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.
Stormy1701@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Just use Librewolf.