Lynnesbian Jan 22, 2019

guess which all-powerful tech monopoly is breaking ublock origin (and umatrix, and likely many other similar add-ons, such as noscript) in their browser, which happens to be the most popular browser in the world?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

who could have foreseen this? who would ever think that an advertising company's web browser would end up breaking compatibility with an ad blocker? frankly i'm shocked

896897 - chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Monorail

Show threadBen Lubar (any pronouns)Jan 23, 2019

@lynnesbian

They moved it to here:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-extensions/veJy9uAwS00

I really like the comment someone made about Chrome no longer being a "user agent" if Google exerts this much control over what it can do.

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Show threaddani little ponie  ​Jan 23, 2019
@ben @lynnesbian google agent
Show threadBen Lubar (any pronouns)
@00dani @lynnesbian that's basically the conclusion they came to. If the user no longer controls the browser, it is a corporation agent, not a user agent.
Jan 23, 2019 at 8:59amWeb