Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoGoogle Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabledwww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareVantaBrandon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIT guys will stop using it… Which means they’ll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won’t ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward. Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS. Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol. I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run. You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.
minus-squareWhyFlip@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months ago“IT guys”? Chrome has a 66% market share globally.
IT guys will stop using it…
Which means they’ll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won’t ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward.
Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS.
Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol.
I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run.
You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.
“IT guys”? Chrome has a 66% market share globally.