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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] theorangeninja@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Only the UI part is not open source.

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

Partially proprietary still means proprietary.

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's the point of keeping part of the UI closed source?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I've seen their reasoning, but I don't agree with it. The biggest counterexample to their concerns are other browsers: Firefox is no trouble maintaining its IP, and Brave is fully open source yet has not been formed once AFAIK.