Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
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With Google providing 80% of Mozilla's finding, I think we can all see whats going to happen next.

I feel like this isn’t talked about enough. Sure

just use Firefox

But for how long is it gonna work that way until they too deprecate v2

Don't worry. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Personally I feel like I'm too addicted to Youtube (and Reddit, which is what brought me back here), so if I can't block ads, perhaps I'll be able to quit. To be honest though, even just disabling watch history and reducing subscriptions makes a massive difference to how addictive it is.

I'm more worried that sites will start to demand it for "security purposes".

It will be either of those two. The effort required to circumvent the restrictions will get increasingly higher. As someone fittingly said a few days ago. Let the 1984 commence.

The Google payments were never guaranteed for Mozilla. If they didn't have a backup plan in place to reduce spending, that's on them. Let Mozilla return to its garage opensource roots.