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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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Looking forward to when they remove the old options & force PC users to scan reCAPTCHA QRs:
Those sites will be dead to me :)
QR codes are like the popups of days gone by. With incredibly few exceptions, I refuse to scan them. They are so easy to redirect for nefarious purposes, and you can’t easily inspect the url to know, assuming thats something you even do. Also my phone case covers the camera and it’s a bitch to get open so I’m very choosy with what gets camera time.
On my phone I use URLCheck (available in f-droid). You set it as your default browser app, but instead of opening a browser, it opens a popup where you can see the URL, and use some useful tools like removing tracking parameters or automatically rewriting x.com to xcancel.com. The rewritten URL can then just be forwarded to your actual browser (or whatever app is set up to handle that particular URL).
I still won't actually open random qr code URLs though, especially not ones from google.
Thats new. Thank you for the tip. Installed!
...just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.
Unfortunately, we're fighting an uphill battle here.
We'd need government regulation "protecting privacy", instead they seem all too eager to concede that in a futile effort to " protect the children ".
Searching is already dead. Every search results in 200 Ai articles full of bullshit, even Qwant or DuckDuckGo.
The corpo-web died already, y'all are just crying over the scraps.
kagi at least tries to remove ai slop and gives you the means to report it.
At which point they cease to be your favourites, I hope. There are so many alternatives in that space that only inertia keeps people using the Empire of Evil.
I doubt SearXNG is going to integrate it lmao, and if they do, someone will fork or i will keep using older versions
You're forgetting other countries that will just stop using American tech companies