TuxGoogle Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun | If you have uBlock Origin, you might notice Chrome automatically disabling the extension.
BananaTrifleViolin“Time to switch to uBlock Lite of another ad blocker”
No. Time to switch to Firefox or derivative such as Librewolf.
Brave is actually very good and seems to have a great blocker
JackbyDevNo. Brave has a history of modifying links you click on to add affiliate information. The only time to use Brave is if user agent spoofing for “chrome only” websites doesn’t make it work.
they appear to have stopped that 4 years ago and apologized for the mistake
EngineerGamingAlso the recent case when they installed VPN. In general, they give off the impression that they don’t respect users’ consent a lot. Mozilla has been similarly sneaky, like with the opt-out ad tracking recently - thus I would only consider Librewolf or hardening - but Brave seems to be more extreme in their advertising business.
the VPN was a feature of the software at the time and not enabled unless you signed up but as you point out if software changes its service without explicitly telling users these days it feels bad
Welll yeah - point was that they installed a service without consent. And not just a browser feature, but something crossing a whole another boundary. AFAIK also, while the tunnel itself was not enabled, the service itself was turned on automatically.
according to the minutes of research i did ;-) i got the impression the service was disabled by default. i don’t know the tech details otherwise so i don’t know if it made the system vulnerable or unstable in anyway. i didn’t find anything like that.
more to the point is that they should have said that VPN resources were being installed