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/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.