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Troy
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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- on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
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on Gamer complained that he turned on his old PS3 for MGS 4 and found out that Sony had disabled his account - he lost his games due to prolonged inactivity in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2 Sep 2026
Likely old accounts are an exploit vector for hackers. That would be the only reasonable excuse. However someone in the business unit will use this as their lever to make other bad decisions.
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
The irony is that Chrome’s rendering engine was a fork of WebKit, which was a fork of KHTML, a free and open source rendering engine created by KDE for Konqueror. They basically took something free, used Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, extinguish” tactics on it. Now KHTML is vestigial, only found in the UserAgent string.
But we could have had a truly free open source cross platform browser with Konqueror.
Best we have now is Firefox, but the bulk of Mozilla’s development funding comes from setting Google as the default search. So it is also hijackable.
In circa 2003-2004, it was as close to on par with browsers at the time as it would get. I think the WebKit fork did damage to the momentum. By 2008 with KDE4, the rework that split it and Dolphin into to products was basically the final nail I think, as development work effectively stopped.