We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

In other news:

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I wonder if the web itself may bifurcate. Corporate, government, and most NGO websites will only respond to corporate browsers that run sanctioned DRM binary blobs to “verify” their “safety”. And then there is us, with our websites and our web clients.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?

It seemed a lot more reasonable 15 years ago. The default on Windows at the time of Chrome's rise was Internet Explorer.

I am watching Ladybird with great interest. The world needs a new-from-the-ground-up browser.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Either ground-up or a hard fork. Or both. Both is good.

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

librewolf

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Librewolf is fine for now, but it is small tweaks tracking FF’s codebase. I think that given Mozilla’s trajectory, at some point someone will have to do a hard fork.

Someone could do a hard fork of Chromium now, for that matter, but I’m not aware of any so far.