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mesa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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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mesa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    I’m using brave so who cares…

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      Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?

      Also, it’s chromium so… You’re getting V3 eventually.

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        Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?

        Revealed by who? Where? Brave definitely has some unsavoury connections to cryptocurrency but calling the entire project “just a big crypto scam” sounds like a massive exaggeration of the problem.

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          Brave was found to be injecting their affiliate links for crypto.

          https://blog.drhack.net/brave-browser-injecting-crypto-referrals/

          https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

          https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/brave-privacy-browser-caught-automatically-adding-affiliate-links-to-cryptocurrency-urls/

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            Yes, that’s what I was referring to. A very far cry from “just a big crypto scam”.

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              IDK why you waste time explaining these kind of things to these kind of people mate, I mean someone who define that as a “big crypto scam” doesn’t even know what’s a big crypto scam.

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        I have years using it a never been crypto scammed for it, about the V3 I truly don’t know apparently you will still be able to turn some V2 extensions like unblock origin but I didn’t see the point of it if the browser include a good adblocker anyway.

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          Same. The adblocker in Brave is great, its been ages since I ditched uBo and I’ve still to see a single ad. Built-in adblockers are good, because Google has no power there. Firefox, instead, its still a thing exclusively because of uBO i.e., the work KF an external, unpaid developer. The say uBO disappears, is the day FF dies. Mozilla is so busy wasting time and money on unrelated stuff and huge CEO paychechs that they have had nkr the time to add and inbuilt advlocker to FF, which instead has useless crap such as Pockets and an opt-out ad-measurement tool which nobody asked for.

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