Originally published at: Google "purges" uBlock Origin from Chrome Web Store - Boing Boing
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They’re ensh*ttifying their search results with AI sludge, so might as well make the browser worse too.
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And since at least some websites are practically unreadable without ad blockers (not naming names here) it’s a good thing I gave up on Chrome a long time ago.
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I gave up on Chrome about the time Google decided that their “don’t be evil” maxim was a quaint little souvenir of a vanished past. It’s essentially spyware, whether or not it lets you run ad-blockers.
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You too ditched it more or less straight away?
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I’m hoping Zen Browser matures quickly. I don’t like mainline Firefox in terms of its featureset or lack thereof these days (I need my tab tiling and the available extensions don’t work as well as Vivaldi). Zen Browser is basically everything I like about Vivaldi but based on Gecko, it’s just clearly half-baked at this point.
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As flaky as Firefox can be some times, I am glad I never stopped using it. Firefox squad for life!
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I have DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials installed, and am also blocking popups. Some sites warn that I have an ad blocker, and invite me (or in some cases, require me) to disable it. That’s a hard no. I am not actually blocking ads. I am blocking the tracking cookies that enable ad vendors to grab my browsing history and other personal data, and intrusive popups. If I can’t do that, I’ll definitely move to another browser.
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Thankfully, there’s alternatives for search as well as browser. I’ve switched my primary search to https://duckduckgo.com/ , and I’ve been on Firefox since it was an alternative to IE.
The latter point brings me round to a larger issue- Chrome got some of its early growth because Microsoft got hit by antitrust legislation, and couldn’t extinguish the browser wars completely. The rise of a new generation of tech giants depended on MS facing regulatory action if they got too predatory. Now we need anew round of big stick regulation to keep the FAANG companies in line.
As with Microsoft and IBM before them, every technology company that gets large enough tends towards evil.
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I stopped using Chrome this year. The web-only application (like Google Chat) paradigm is a step backward for user experience.
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I hope one of the Monopoly lawsuit conditions will require Google to allow ad-blocking extensions for Chrome. I use Firefox day-to day, but some extensions, like Teleparty, only support Chrome these days 
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That’s okay, Google, I’ve purged Chrome from my phone and computers at home. I’ll be suggesting a similar purge at work, although we can’t require it.
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Really is time to purge chrome and chromium-based browsers from computers.
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I am using an archaic laptop who also runs windoze 7. I can’t use all kinds of programs - my beloved video format converter for one - because it’s so old.
I run Firefox, and have done for ages. It crashes a lot on this machine, but I won’t use chrome.
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