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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Google is Killing uBlock Origin in Chrome (protonprivacy.substack.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by SleepyPie@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] f1error@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Google owns Mozilla

I'm going to need verifiable proof of this.

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mozilla is funded by Google. Not sure about them owning it, but they do give Mozilla money

[–] Bulletdust@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Google provide funding in return for Mozilla making Google the default search engine under FF, which is in itself is nothing like Chromium which is almost entirely developed and maintained by Google.