Comment by miladyincontrol
2 days ago
Oh, a free of cost vpn extension that requires access to all sites and data is somehow spyware, color me surprised.
With those extensions the user's data and internet are the product, most if not all are also selling residential IP access for scrapers, bots, etc.
Good thing Google is protecting users by taking down such harmful extensions as ublock origin instead.
ublock requires access to all sites and data. Maybe they are trustworthy but who really knows?
Let's say we don't trust ublock. At the very least it is still blocking ad networks which do reduce internet performance and are vectors of exploitation, so it is still adding value whether you trust it or not.
Under the hypothetical that we don't trust ublock, it would be foolish to grant it full access to all data on all websites. It would not be adding value.
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I mean, I don't trust ublock, for what it's worth. I just disable javascript by default with has pretty much the same effect.