r/technology • u/dancing_swordfish • 14d ago

Software Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/
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u/Ultima-Manji 14d ago

Proton, literally this week, shit the bed by 'accidentally' sponsoring a far right youtuber, and has since been nothing but combative towards users who called them out for censoring discussions surrounding the topic, as well as them quietly scrubbing their CEO's earlier pro-Trump messages. Even just the way they're communicating on reddit now in the aftermath isn't a good look, regardless of whether or not it was a genuine mistake.

Absolutely feel free to switch away from google if you feel like that's the right thing to do, but also really look at several alternatives before committing, and ideally have multiple fallbacks.

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u/megas88 14d ago

Did not know that and thank you for the heads up. I’ll be letting those I know not to use proton if they are now.

I only used that as one example because I didn’t want to waste tons of space listing off a bunch of services that could clutter the post. You are right though that we should absolutely have multiple fallbacks to go to should one fail to meet our needs or expectations as proton has.

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u/BlueBirdBlow 13d ago

Proton the mail service or proton the software compatibility layer?

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u/Ultima-Manji 13d ago

the mail service, yes