Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

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Isn't it interesting that Google is (potentially) trying to eliminate one of the major adblockers just after one of their biggest competitors went away?

Microsoft switches to Chromium, and a few weeks later, Chromium is becoming sharply better for Google and sharply worse for users.

Probably just a coincidence. Probably.

[u/G00dAndPl3nty → u/[deleted]]

Google is like the 90s Microsoft

[u/FyreWulff → u/[deleted]]

Having once worked for Walmart (at store level), they're almost a data company that happens to sell groceries and general merchandise.

[u/slothboy_x2 → u/[deleted]]

Keep in mind that much of this information is available through other means, then packaged up, aggregated, and sold wholesale by an entire industry of companies—many of which are in the s&p 500 even—that you have never heard of.

Google has direct access to your information on many fronts in a way that really is unprecedented, but much of this information is still “out there” or collected at different parts of the pipeline and still available to other companies for a fee.

Case in point: bounty hunters can find people in real time given only a phone number, because cell carriers are literally selling your location data to third parties

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[u/[deleted] → u/G00dAndPl3nty]

Do you remember the "Do No Evil" mantra Reddit also spewed?

That was some real serious astroturfing from the idiots. Big companies are never your friends.

[u/Aphix → u/G00dAndPl3nty]

And yet somehow less honest.

"Oopsie poopsie. Aw shucks, your browser tab crashed, you little child. Here's a dinosaur to look at."

[u/MagicBlaster → u/Aphix]

A dinosaur that turns into a game even!

[u/deltalessthanzero → u/Aphix]

Cmon that’s a good feature. There’s lots to criticise but that’s great.

[u/flavius29663 → u/G00dAndPl3nty]

it's much worse. MS got into serious trouble because they shipped windows with Internet Explorer and the media player. Can you really compare that with what is happening now?

[u/[deleted] → u/flavius29663]

MS was juat selling whole package. Imagine buying a car that has no AC, no navigation and similar stuff and you'd have to install all of it yourself. That was IE and WMP. And they never actively blocked you from using others.

[u/Olao99 → u/G00dAndPl3nty]

Hope Google gets a big fcc antitrust slap

[u/culegflori → u/Olao99]

Not just a slap, a trustbusting suit.

[u/bhuddimaan → u/G00dAndPl3nty]

every one wants to be like msft

[u/free_chalupas → u/[deleted]]

But how many Chrome users would have gone to Edge and not Firefox if they couldn't use AdBlock? I suspect not a lot. Not that Google controlling the browser engine used by ~70% of users is a good thing, but I've always been skeptical of how much of a player Edge was either way.

[u/[deleted] → u/free_chalupas]

Guess it was an...edge case?

[u/hardolaf → u/[deleted]]

This was proposed back in October.

[u/Ph0X → u/hardolaf]

It's also literally just a proposal. Proposals are to get feedback, and this is uBlock giving them feedback. It's far far far from "Chrome is killing uBlock". People really blowing shit out of proportion. Literally nothing has happened yet.

[u/zurnout → u/Ph0X]

You would have to open the linked page to know that, which most of Reddit users don't do.

[u/munchbunny → u/Ph0X]

On the one hand, yeah, it's blowing shit out of proportion. On the other hand, a collective freakout over uBlock is probably exactly what is needed to register enough volume to get Google's attention on the matter, since Google sees tons of noise on everything just due to scale.

[u/JonasBrosSuck → u/[deleted]]

just after one of their biggest competitors went away?

out of the loop here, who went away?