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

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What's the point of keeping part of the UI closed source?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

I've seen their reasoning, but I don't agree with it. The biggest counterexample to their concerns are other browsers: Firefox is no trouble maintaining its IP, and Brave is fully open source yet has not been formed once AFAIK.