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Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin
webiterate.dev/google-removed-extensions-ublock-origin-108/😡1
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
company which makes most of it’s revenue from advertising fucks with their browser’s ability to remove ads. Go figure!
Replying to @elucubra@sopuli.xyz
I have to say I’m not surprised. No one wants to pay for a browser.
Replying to @tazeycrazy@feddit.uk
The irony is that Chrome’s rendering engine was a fork of WebKit, which was a fork of KHTML, a free and open source rendering engine created by KDE for Konqueror. They basically took something free, used Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, extinguish” tactics on it. Now KHTML is vestigial, only found in the UserAgent string.
But we could have had a truly free open source cross platform browser with Konqueror.
Best we have now is Firefox, but the bulk of Mozilla’s development funding comes from setting Google as the default search. So it is also hijackable.
Replying to @troyunrau@lemmy.ca
We could maybe have done that. But Konqueror has never been that good every time I tried it.
Replying to @troyunrau@lemmy.ca
I think it’s the shear cost of operating a browser. I would hope Mozilla are looking to diversity there income but without ads or sales to end users I’m not sure where it can go.