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Stephen Downes

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If you use Google Chrome and are one of the 30 million using UBlock Origin to block web advertising, you are probably within hours of losing that protection as Google begins to disable the extension. The 'official' reason given by Google is 'security considerations' but the real reason, so far as I can see, is that Google is an advertising company that is losing too much revenue to ad blockers. Brave, a Chrome-based browser, is developing its own ad blocker. But your best bet is to switch today to Firefox (which is the browser I use every day). 

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