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[โ€“] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Why it happened?

Security, kinda. Google didn't like having extensions which could have their execution modified outside the core code (e.g. the block lists). Also, I'd put money on Google hating anything which reduces ad revenue.

What to use instead?

uBlock Origin, in FireFox.

[โ€“] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

but they didn't have their execution modified. What got updated was datafiles, not code. This is just a shitty excuse by google.

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