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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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Who thought it was a good idea to let an internet ad company control our internet client?
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I wonder if the web itself may bifurcate. Corporate, government, and most NGO websites will only respond to corporate browsers that run sanctioned DRM binary blobs to “verify” their “safety”. And then there is us, with our websites and our web clients.
It seemed a lot more reasonable 15 years ago. The default on Windows at the time of Chrome's rise was Internet Explorer.
I am watching Ladybird with great interest. The world needs a new-from-the-ground-up browser.
Either ground-up or a hard fork. Or both. Both is good.
librewolf
Librewolf is fine for now, but it is small tweaks tracking FF’s codebase. I think that given Mozilla’s trajectory, at some point someone will have to do a hard fork.
Someone could do a hard fork of Chromium now, for that matter, but I’m not aware of any so far.