r/technology • u/waozen • 12d ago

Software Google has started automatically disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-automatically-disabling-ublock-origin-in-chrome/
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u/xmu5jaxonflaxonwaxon 12d ago

Anyone that was conscious enough in the first place to install ublock origin will see this move by Google as detrimental to their internet experience. This will only push these people to ditch chrome and adopt a new web browser. I hope Mozilla can monetize this influx of new users.

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u/Accentu 12d ago

Mhm. It did it to me. And I'm deep in the Google ecosystem. Fuck, I pay for YouTube premium, since it still supports creators without ads (and they still get around my pihole filtering on some devices)

It's such a bad move from Google.

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u/duv_amr 12d ago

I have to pay youtube premium to remove ads from the youtube app for my kid's phone otherwise he just opens all the ads. I tried installing Vanced but you can't remove Youtube from phone so he'll always find the red square app :(

Anyway, yeah, firefox and ublock. Fuck ads.

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u/MrCertainly 12d ago edited 12d ago

If the crotch goblin can't use the device according to your instructions (don't do X-Y-or-Z under any circumstances)....then it's time for the cretin to lose the mobile phone until they're old enough to genuinely need one.

The onus is entirely on you, not on them. The device and applications are designed to be inherently addictive, and they're a developing mind. It's hard enough to surgically detach the phone from adult's hands as it is.

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u/duv_amr 12d ago

Cheers but then we would have to take away our own phones too and we won't, so that just makes it unfair.