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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What? They’re not going to kill their own browser that they virtually exclusively control. Why would they kill one of their biggest cash cows? Google is an ad company, and they want control of the client software that we use which they pump ads to and exfiltrate our identities from.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Whoosh

I think they were talking about Chrome becoming obsolete. Unlikely but not impossible