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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 1 month ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Why are you making it about that question in particular? There's a lot of topics that have been raised here, notably Google's Chromium project, the way it's killing ad blockers, the way that other browsers also use chromium, people associated with those browsers.

In this range of subjects I'm not sure what the significance is of elevating this libre software question above everything else.