Chrome’s New War: Killing Ad Blockers
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New? This is years in the working.
Literally told people to expect this if they keep using chrome and now they are in disbelief, more so when I send them the screen cap of me telling them to expect it.
But why would an ad company want to block ad blockers? That makes no sense...
*making
Use Firefox.
This is the easiest problem to solve.
There was a time not too long ago where I would have just assumed a move this clearly douchey and against your customers' desires would lead to nothing but a complete evacuation of those customers, but I've seen this movie play out enough times to know that somehow, someway, this will work out just fine for them. People will complain, swallow it whole, keep on using it, and finally just forget about it.
It turns out the majority of people are just really fuckin’ dumb.
Switch to Firefox, be happy.
This has been coming since they announced Manifest v3. Anyone paying any attention at all knew this was going to happen.
and switched to Firefox if they weren't already using it
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Imagine using you power to "vote for "/support/give power to a company who says it's gonna kill all ad-blockers to monopolise the ad market even further ... and then complain about the exact thing happening.
Using Chrome (or other Google products) is just supporting and enabling that.
If people didn't use it, none of it would have happened.
That's why I don't use chrome.
That alone would be why it's good if they had to sell it.
The only issue with forcing them to sell it is Mozilla will lose most of its income stream. Hopfully selling it causes much branching making it harder to target firefox in making websites uncompatable.
Nu?
Chrome is shit. Never liked it and only use it at work.
The fuck you mean “new”? They have been trying to force chromium based browsers on everyone in part for this exact reason
Okay, thanks. I remember reading quite a bit about this but in another thread a while back, several people were recommending Brave. I was using it for a while and I do like the speed, especially on Android. I was using Firefox on both desktop and Androis but I think uBlock Origin on Firefox causes a 2-5 pause when accessing some websites. It's really weird and I haven't been able to figure it out.
Overall, I agree about Brave and the shady monetization stuff.
The amount of disconnect with reality in the comments on this is / will continue to be hilarious
Knew?
How is uBO Lite different from regular uBO?
No permissions, unable to do some advanced blocking stuff, unable to pull an updated list of ad urls (which means you have to update the extension to get updated ad lists), and so on
Extensions get updated automatically, though, right?
yes, but ublock gets its blocklists from an external address, which cannot be done with manifest v3. and updating the extension is something that can take weeks until approved, while google could just outmaneuver ublock.
Despite all the drawbacks, so far I don't notice a difference.
The change hasn't even officially happened yet. Over time, following the changes, ad tech will get restructured to take advantage of the new limitations so ads can't be blocked. Nothing will change overnight.
Brave Browser if you still want a Chromium based browser. Also ranks as one of the best privacy browsers
https://privacytests.org/
Brave has plenty of problems and chromium base is only one of them, here’s some easy examples from recent history:
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caught-adding-its-own-referral-codes-to-some-cryptcurrency-trading-sites/
https://cryptobriefing.com/basic-attention-token-rebounds-despite-brave-autofill-controversy/
Best case scenario Brave is difficult to fully trust, why go out of your way to use a browser that tries to monetize your usage?
While we’re at it fuck every chromium-based browser. Why help google conquer the internet that much faster? Because that’s how they attack unlock origin and such, that’s how they introduce lag and pauses for people visiting YouTube on non chromium browsers, etc.
Brave is malware that should never be used. If you need a Chromium based browser, Vivaldi is a good choice. Otherwise Firefox.