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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I also use adblocking at multiple levels so it wasn't a huge thing for me (been blocking Pocket and other bullshit for years at the dns and network levels) but I still feel like Mozilla witnessed Google going for broke with killing mv2 and inline ads on YouTube and decided wellll our existing users probably wouldn't notice or care if we slipped in an opt-out fuckery... But we did. Immediately.

For any browser trying to sell itself as "the only privacy browser on the market" this was a dumb fucking move by any metric. Like why not just openly admit we're going with the Brave browser model?