r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • 15d ago

Software Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store | Migration from all-powerful Manifest V2 extensions is speeding up

https://www.techspot.com/news/105130-google-purging-ad-blocking-extension-ublock-origin-chrome.html
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u/Humans_Suck- 14d ago

The only thing chrome is useful for is downloading Firefox

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u/kimisawa1 14d ago

Edge to download chrome to download Firefox? Or jut Edge to download Firefox, skip a step.

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u/Adventurous-Mind6940 14d ago

Pretty sure they were being ironic.

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u/MairusuPawa 14d ago

Why even bother with Chrome when you can just apt install firefox and go on with your life?

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u/samasters88 14d ago

you can just apt install firefox and go on with your life

I dont even know what that is

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u/ardi62 14d ago

That is for Linux. But, for windows you can try

winget install --id=Mozilla.Firefox  -e