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 extension will soon no longer be available because it “doesn’t follow the best practices for Chrome extensions”.2 Daly Barnett. “Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening.” EFF, December 9, 2021. ↩ Lawrence Abrams. “Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon.” Bleeping Computer, October 13, 2024. ↩

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 …

  • lemmus@szmer.info
    431·
    30 days ago

    I knew it will be downvoted, but you have to realize, nothing is free in this world kids, I don’t like it too, but it is what it is.

    • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.orgEnglish
      9·
      29 days ago

      posted on social media developed for free using a standard specced out for free running on servers people are allowing you to use for free…

      Whether or not current models are sustainable is beside the point. Obviously they aren’t, ad blockers weren’t developed for shits and giggles but to stop increasingly intrusive practices.

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
      8·
      29 days ago

      nothing is free

      Plenty of things can be and are free at the point of service/point of consumption/utilization.

      That’s all they need to be. And there just has to be enough willpower to do that from enough people.

    • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
      5·
      29 days ago

      This world is what ever we make it, and literally everything we need to live is free, from water to food to shelter. The earth literally just does all that.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      61·
      29 days ago

      You’re paying for the air you breathe? Lots of things are free. Capitalists who want you to pay for what you shouldn’t will try to convince you otherwise.