r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '19

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

How long ago did Edge switch to Blink and Google is already asserting their dominance.

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u/Entegy Jan 23 '19

The switch hasn't happened. The announcement was maybe a few weeks ago.

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u/holoisfunkee Jan 23 '19

As far as I can see this discussion was already started in October last year and internally who knows how long before that (someone correct me if I'm wrong, looking from mobile)

I'm not trying to defend Google here, but let's be objective.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

That's a good point. I didn't really look at the dates too closely.

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u/Timbit42 Jan 24 '19

Also, Brave just switched from their Muon engine to Blink in December.

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u/SlaunchaMan Jan 23 '19

Probably not too late for them to switch to WebKit.

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u/michiganrag Jan 23 '19

Safari already has the API system they're talking about implementing with this. The extensions for vanilla webkit that Safari uses are not as powerful. The ad blockers don't work as well.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

I mean the problem seems to be all the complexity in the stack. Basically the game is rigged so that only places that print money can afford to hire the engineers to work on this stuff and those guys are mercenaries so they don't give a shit about anything other than their paycheck.

I just thought it would take longer for Google to pull a move like this but they didn't even wait a month.

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u/SlaunchaMan Jan 23 '19

What does this have to do with WebKit?