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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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Lynx gang, assemble
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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Lynx? Hah, I must chortle in your general direction.
Elinks is the powerful, featureful and versatile, yet light, CLI browser of today. If you haven't tried it, or if it's been years since you've tried it, then I can only recommend taking it for a spin.
It even has a minimal, partial ECMAScript/JavaScipt implementation that's optionally available, meaning that it can browse and navigate the modern web to a much greater degree than other CLI browsers, but of course with the trade-off that you're now executing some amount of JavaScript code again, which is probably what you're trying to escape in the first place when you're firing up a CLI browser instead of a conventional browser.
Wow, it looks pretty nice. i'll make sure to give it a try... thanks
It's perfect for surfing Wikipedia.
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The enshittification is going on overdrive I see...
Remember that article awhile back about the FBI recommending you use an adblocker?
That means even the FBI recommends you don't use Google and Microsoft browsers anymore
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Man up and take your spyware like an obedient peasant
When will marketing people figure out our generation views ads as hostile, non-consensual, and unwanted? They are a negative way to introduce us to your product/service. I actively avoid things with obnoxious ads. Native, old spice, liberty mutual, all of those brands the first thing that comes to mind is the negative experience of an invasive advertisement I never fucking asked for.
Except we are not customers, and it's the customers that are important. I's like cows asking between themselves when will the butcher realize that they do not like being killed for meat.
Butcher knows, but butcher doesn't sell comfort to cows, he sells meat to customers.
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The more you tighten your grip, Google, the more ad revenue will slip through your fingers.
They could have sat on 30 second ads every 15 minutes till the cows came home and most of us would have been fine with it.
They could have sat on premium family for $9 a month for years and we'd have been ok with it.
They had to be greedy as fuck until none of us want to use their services.
The line has to go up. That is literally the law. The fact that Youtube has a larger income than Disney doesn't mean it will stop. They can never stop. They just can crash and burn down eventually but only after making a few people very very rich.
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Government becomes more fascist, tech companies become more fascist.
People don’t like surveillance advertising, and most reject it when given the choice. Unpopular policies are squashed when the people are represented, and the Republican policies and interests of forced and extreme deregulation are being represented here, not the people’s.
That, and I believe advertising is inherently fascistic in the way that it distorts realty, and intrusively attempts to modify thinking with punitive, insulting, and psychologically coercive methods - it is corporate propaganda, and when it is combined with surveillance and purchased by the State, it becomes fascism.
I can’t wait for them to try and make ad-blocking illegal. We’re seeing a similar trend with the age verification firm Yoti “reporting” GrapheneOS users to “the authorities”, whatever the hell that Gestapo bullshit scare-tactic means. If FOSS software and ad-blocking are tools of privacy and freedom from thought manipulation, and those concepts are being attacked by a State-backed corporate entity, then the State no longer represents those values. Chrome, like so much other corporate software that has sunk to surveillance advertising with a healthy side of selling data to the government, is now just another fascist tool to punish democratic resistance.
Freedom from advertising is a human right.
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In my phone (Google pixel) I mainly use Firefox for browsing. While Chrome is still the default browser. At some point I'll change default also to Firefox. I didn't do this because I'm not logged into some apps there.
Google realized how much money they were losing by supporting adblock in the first place. They also had way too many extensions with MV2 that requested full site access...
At the end of the day, they want to force feed everyone advertisements. Often meant to make people angry or buy shit they don't need.
It's also why apps like NewPipe are in an arms race with the recent sideloading app changes for Android.
Inspired by the Ludovico Technique
they also want to datamine peoples personal data, so they can sell it for extra.