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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads(www.windowscentral.com)

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zewm@lemmy.world
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Weird that you tell people not to use Chrome because it’s adware but suggest Brave which is a crypto miner.

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.today
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Brave has built-in wallet support and such, but I don’t think it does any mining, does it? It just has its own opt-in ad system to pays out in crypto and is also owned by a turd.

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Peffse@lemmy.world
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I dumped Brave when it decided to install its VPN as a service without my consent. I had so much trouble ripping out all the traces of that.

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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I completely forgot about that. Yeah, it’s fucked.

Imagine if you bought a Microsoft game, say Forza, and it installed a bunch of candy crush games alongside it without asking you.

It’s scummy as fuck.

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Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Being owned by a turd is reason enough not to use it.

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LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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I use tons of software developed by people with whom I would probably disagree on politics.

Rejecting a program because one of the developers said something you didn’t like is just childish.

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floofloof@lemmy.ca
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Vivaldi is similar but nicer.

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masterspace@lemmy.ca
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Man I just tried to throw out a Chromium fork that didn’t use Manifest v3, I didn’t realize Brave went off the deep end. Personally I use Firefox and Edge when I need to use Chromium and for work just because I find it’s dev tools nicer.

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Engywuck@lemm.ee
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False. Try again.

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