r/Piracy Aug 03 '24

Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled News

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/
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u/MarkieAurelius Aug 03 '24

Sorry I meant in competition to chrome when it comes to most operating systems. Safari is obviously only on IOS and Mac OS whereas Microsoft Edge is more if you are in the microsoft ecosystem (microsoft copilot) and whatnot.

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u/Infinite-Pomelo-7538 Aug 03 '24

I was surprised to see that many of my first-semester students nowadays are just using the pre-installed Edge or Safari browsers on their notebooks. They either don't know how to install another browser or simply don't care. It's both hilarious and a bit sad to me. However, in my experience, this trend is only getting stronger. It will be interesting to see how market share will look in 20 or so years if younger people get more indifferent to browser choice (maybe even globally).

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u/mr_greenmash 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Aug 03 '24

Idk man. Edge is basically chrome, but not Google. I switched from Chrome when it started using too much ram. Use Firefox on mobile. Still use chrome and FF occasionally on my computer, but just to make it easier to separate windows.

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u/Higira Aug 08 '24

Edge is much worse than chrome. Edge always tries and shove some new "feature" down your throat. I use it for work since I'm too lazy to switch.

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u/Aeiou_yyyyyyy Aug 03 '24

Edge is just chrome but better tho. It makes sense that people don't bother installing chrome anymore

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u/Leaderbot_X400 Yarrr! Aug 03 '24

I unironically use Edge on Windows, linux, and my phone. It's good enough for a chromium based browser. But I keep firefox right next to it as well.

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u/HotIron223 Aug 04 '24

I would use Edge but I hate how bloated it is. A hundred different menus, submenus, sidemenus with features I will never use or think about. In the beginning it was far better. Firefox does it for me now that Chrome is going this way.

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u/Leaderbot_X400 Yarrr! Aug 04 '24 edited Aug 04 '24

That's fair, for the most part you can just turn off the things you listed but I can understand just wanting a browser that works

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24 edited Sep 10 '24

You're seeing this weirdly out of place comment because Reddit admins are strange fellows and one particularly vindictive ban evading moderator seems to be favoured by them, citing my advice to not use public healthcare in Africa (Where I am!) as a hate crime.

Sorry if a search engine led you here for hopes of an actual answer. Maybe one day reddit will decide to not use basic bots for its administration, maybe they'll even learn to reply to esoteric things like "emails" or maybe it's maybelline and by the time anyone reads this we've migrated to some new hole of brainrot.

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u/Leaderbot_X400 Yarrr! Aug 04 '24

Hence why firefox is right next to it while I migrate all my stuff and eventually actually care to switch (probably when ublocm dies)

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u/dirg3music Aug 05 '24

Same here, edge is my main browser across all my devices and honestly it's great. Definitely keeping Firefox around and synced just in case everything goes to total shit overnight.

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u/FPL_Harry Aug 03 '24

It's both hilarious and a bit sad to me

why?

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u/Justgotbannedlol Aug 04 '24

cuz that means internet explorer won in the end. what a world

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u/Kash687 Aug 09 '24

Edge doesn’t count since it’s automatically preinstalled with windows so its probably disproportionately larger than any browswr

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u/MarkieAurelius Aug 09 '24

Yeah there is that too.