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by Throw38494 615 days ago
I would still go with Mozilla.

They have some good stuff like offline page translation.

But most importantly they have a good review process for popular browser extensions. Google controls Chrome store, and they have conflict of interest when it comes to hosting stuff like Ublock.

So for daily browsing locked down Firefox. For banking and office stuff vanilla Chrome.
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mossTechnician 615 days ago
> they have a good review process for popular browser extensions... [Google] have conflict of interest when it comes to hosting stuff like Ublock.

It's serendipitous you mentioned that extension, because Mozilla recently came under fire after its treatment of that developer[1], and people started talking about how tedious it is to publish extensions. Mozilla is now also an ad company, so it has the same conflict of interest as Google.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707418

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Throw38494 615 days ago
I see that conflict as a sign this process actually works. That extension had a few thousands of downloads, and should not get automatic pass, just because it is from famous developer.

Ublick Origin is different from "Ublock Origin Lite"

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