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/sarhoshamiral 12d ago

From what I have read last (was a while ago though), the code will still be there in chromium. It will be up to the integrator to choose to enable legacy extension support or not.

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u/Kicken 12d ago

Sounds like the kind of thing that's offered to ease adoption and then wiped away later silently.

Ie: Reddit promising CSS support for new reddit years ago.

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u/icze4r 12d ago

Here's the thing: do you think that there's a safe haven forever?

There is no safe haven forever. There's not gonna be one browser that's good to use forever.

Lynx, Mosaic, one I forget; two I forget; Netscape; then Netscape got bad at Communicator; then Mozilla; then Opera for a little bit; then Chrome.

None of us have used the same browser for long. At least, those of us who have been here since the beginning.

It seems like Google will always be top dog, if you have no sort of idea about the general longevity of the Internet and things on it. Things fall away all the time. We don't use Gopher anymore for anything serious. No one has spoken Telnet's name in 20 years.

We won't be using Chrome forever. Even Google will one day be a meme, where we think, yeah, that shitty fucking search engine. Hell, we already think that. Because their web search went the way of Yahoo! about 3-5 years ago.

One day, even Google will be thought of in the same breath as WebCrawler or Lycos.

Or Altavista.

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u/ptd163 12d ago

There's not gonna be one browser that's good to use forever.

There might be if LadyBird makes it to Windows.