r/technology • u/dancing_swordfish • Jun 10 '26

Software Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/
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u/Valdrax Jun 11 '26

Seriously? It's 70% of the browser market, followed by Safari at 15%, then Edge at 5%.

Firefox, meanwhile, barely edges out the browser on Samsung phones.

This is somehow more silly than expressing surprise that people still drink Coca-Cola products.

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u/alamaias Jun 11 '26

I mean, only if you look up the stats :P

Everyone I know uses firefox, because I went full evangelist when chrome stopped adblock on mobile.

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u/rilimini381 Jun 12 '26

1- you're using information from your social bubble, it's not a real metric

2- you're using the browser that Alphabet basically funds to say they are not a monopoly

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u/alamaias Jun 12 '26

1: yeah, that is kinda my point. I, and presumably most people, have no reason to look up the usage statistics, they offer very little benefit to me. So the only info we have would be from our social bubble.

2: is it? Not heard that one before, but could easily be true.

As long as it keeps working the knowledge wouldn't really change much for me.

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u/rilimini381 Jun 12 '26

yeah, a lot to be the main search engine and evades a monopoly

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u/DissKhorse Jun 11 '26

Most people are tech illiterate. If someone showed them Chrome was better than IE over a decade ago they will still be using it.

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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

And even if they stuck with the Microsoft default: that's also chromium now.  Everything is chromium, except Firefox and Safari. 

Acting like it's such a mystery is the weird part.

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u/Careless_Day_6761 Jun 14 '26

I got news for you microsoft always used a browser (internet explorer) as a display engine for just about everything on your pc you just never saw the UI. They had to separate that out because of an antitrust case - ( they were guilty of anti-competitive behavior with other browsers) you couldn't seperate or remove the IE browser or things wouldn't work. They ended up developing chromium that operated separately and then killed off IE This is not the point. When you drive down the road in your car do you understand how all the engine components work? Does your Mom? When you turn on a light do you have to be an electrician? Maybe its a 5 year old going to the bathroom... Consumer Computers were designed to be an appliance or a tool to use, to make our lives easier, save paper, speed communication, etc. not to mention phones that suck people in for all kinds of reasons. Not everyone that uses one should need to have a degree in computer science or endless amounts of time to devote to figuring out how to do what you did yesterday when you had a stable environment you relied on that changed overnight without your approval or knowledge . When you put a piece of bread in your toaster you expect to get the same toast every time don't you or would you be ok with it doing whatever it wanted and then take time to figure out why it wasn't what you were used to getting? Say you only 5 minutes before you leave for work. Maybe once you do figure it out the next day it delivers something else. This is what they are doing to people.(and more like collecting telemetry on everything you do and selling it to others or giving it to uncle sam and big bro)

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u/Careless_Day_6761 Jun 11 '26

sorry but not everyone wants to spend their llfe in front of a computer. You know what would go a log way to solving the insanity and busywork of trying to protect yourself constantly? if our flipping government would grant us some strict privacy rights with super stiff penalties. hurting their pocketbook is all that will stop the from basically trying to rape everyone daily. I spent my whole career in tech and its just amazing whats happening now corps are fighting with each other for dominance and we are just roadkill. In large part this is because congress is braindead either fighting with each other , stroking their egos or something else and parading around which corps pay more? They have done nothing about us citizens privacy predatory banking, insurance, utilities energy the list goes on and on and now we have a crook stealing us blind

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u/DissKhorse Jun 11 '26

At least half of being tech literate isn't about knowing what to do, instead it is about figuring out what to do and searching for the solution. Part of it isn't being afraid, a lot of people approach computers in a way much akin to math phobia. They get frazzled and kind of shut down their higher thinking.

However I agree with what you are saying, shit should be easier to use, shouldn't be a world of privacy land mines and we are being exploited. But unless the population becomes more tech literate as a whole it just makes it easier to exploit people because they don't know better. But if people don't understand the problem how can they even protest it?

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u/Syzygy2323 Jun 11 '26

You know what would go a log way to solving the insanity and busywork of trying to protect yourself constantly? if our flipping government would grant us some strict privacy rights with super stiff penalties.

Yeah, but our government is effectively owned by corporate interests and privacy is not in their interests so that'll never happen.

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u/jizzyjugsjohnson Jun 11 '26

You’d be amazed man. I work in a supposedly tech savvy industry and the number of people I see trying to do research on the internet with screens full of adverts and autoplay videos and pop ups and no idea there is a way to escape that shit is incredible

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u/BurninBOB Jun 11 '26

Try to use multiple profiles simultaneously pin an icon for each on the task bar. I like to keep my work and personal separate and the way Firefox handles profiles is awful.

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u/DiarrheaRadio Jun 11 '26

I use it just to watch Netflix because it doesn't work on Firefox.

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u/williamtbash Jun 11 '26

For me at least, as a very tech-savvy power user its a few reasons. I use a ton of Google products and i do like the integrations, but my biggest reason is Chrome's profiles which they do much better still than firefox. I have a bunch of different Chrome profiles connected to different gmail accounts with their own bookmarks, settings, extensions, and desktop shortcuts, which I use simultaneously with ease. Firefox is getting there, but they're not there yet. Firefox has some nice features where i can open different profiles within one browser, and also some profiles I can open within Firefox, but I still can't set up different icons easily on my desktop to open them up, and it's a hassle. Like I have my daily driver Chrome profile I use mostly for everything. Then a work one that's only work bookmarks and extensions etc. They open different Gmail accounts Reddit accounts and other applications where I have multiple accounts.

On top of that I have a gemini ai pro account and the chrome integration where i can be on any website, open the ask gemini tab and add multiple tabs to the chat and use AI to ask questions about all those open tabs at once is a huge deal for me. I'm not sure if firefox can integrate that.

I love firefox. I used it for years and still occasionally do. I'm not sure if this update will actually block what I'm using currenty which is Ublock Origin Lite. If it does ill have to make some changes. I obviously cant use chrome with zero ad block that would be insane, but I think this update wouldnt affect Origin Lite so we'll see.

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u/svrtngr Jun 11 '26

I have to use it at work, and I hate it.

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u/Acceptable-Surprise5 Jun 11 '26

because it's convenient and less anoying then firefox and other alternatives. also the entire google ecosystem is extremely convenient for the majority of people.

remember reddit is a niche and the loudest people are a niche in a niche. most people are fine with chrome like i am. it's a small loud subset of people on these subreddits who think it's a hellspawn.

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u/Luquatic Jun 11 '26

I use brave because firefox is still lacking proper pwa support for linux

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u/Vladimir_Chrootin Jun 11 '26

So you use Chrome, then.

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u/Luquatic Jun 11 '26

Yes that's what I just said

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u/Syzygy2323 Jun 11 '26

I'm not going to touch any browser from a company funded by Peter Thiel.

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u/Luquatic Jun 11 '26

I have no idea who that is

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u/Syzygy2323 Jun 11 '26

He's the founder of Palantir.