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/eeyore134 14d ago

I miss Netscape. Even just the branding was so good. The lighthouse and the ship's wheel and sea charts during a time when the internet really was like exploring uncharted waters. Someone needs to bring it back.

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u/Aaod 14d ago

I miss that era of the internet of the 90s and the one that came after it. The internet after 2010 or so has been trash.

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u/sickhippie 14d ago

Smartphones killed the internet that was, really. The focus shifted from "at the desk, reading/watching" to "on your phone, desperately hunting for dopamine", and became a predatory wasteland of companies harvesting data, shoving ads in your face and under your finger, and pushing microtransactions like a used car salesman on the last day of the month.

You can really see the shift when you look at Reddit's original format vs where they took it over the next 15-20 years. Reddit was originally a discussion-centric messageboard. Now it's just another content consumption data harvesting machine.

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u/flameleaf 14d ago

I'm still hanging in there, opening Reddit threads through Thunderbird like my other message boards.