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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reminder to switch browsers if you haven't already!

Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.

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[+] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I am the only person at my work that even knows what an ad blocker is. My boss, director of IT, doesn't use one. Uses chrome with no extensions like everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

What does google expect users to do once they realize they get better extensions with firefox?

If that happens en masse, which is extremely unlikely, Google can just pull its funding for Mozilla and cripple them

The entire sector is fucked because of lack of regulation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

80% of people I know does not use an ad block, even the ones more tech savvy. I have no clue how brainwashed they are for eating ad garbage all day long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

To be fair, let's be glad that 80% of people don't use an ad block. If it were the opposite and 80% did use ad block, web services would be much more aggressive in combating ad blockers and many more of them would end up pay-walled (although it seems we're heading there anyway).

On one hand, I feel kinda bad that my ad-free experience is only supported thanks to those who do undergo the torture of ads, on the other hand, the companies have only themselves to blame. If web ads were decent, only limited to sides and headers or even between paragraphs of web pages and didn't cover the content you're trying to view, didn't try to trick you into thinking it's part of the content, didn't lead to malicious websites, didn't autoplay videos with sound or didn't put unskippable ads before and inside videos, I would have never felt the need to install an ad block.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They expect most users to not care, and sadly they're right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I think, they just stopped caring about users instead. They've got enough market share. Might as well internet-explorer it for a while.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think people just genuinely don't know that firefox (and I suppose Safari) is the only true alternative browser i.e. Not based on chromium.

I do my best to transition people I know across, but people are retty comfortable on chrome. If ad blockers stop working, I think there will be people who care just enough to switch.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think people just genuinely don't know that firefox (and I suppose Safari) is the only true alternative browser i.e. Not based on chromium.

Safari is only "not based on Chromium" in the sense that the heredity goes in the other direction (Chromium is based on it).

Firefox is the only browser that maintains a rendering engine codebase fully separate from Chrome. That's why using Firefox, and evangelizing it to help keep up its marketshare, is so vitally important for the health of the web.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Huh, I didn't know that about Safari/Chromium. Absolutely agree that having a Google-controlled browser monopoly would be catastrophic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Used Firefox on and off since it came around, not a fan. But if chromium blocks ad-blockers, I'm switching instantly. I doubt many people know or care enough to switch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've been on Firefox almost exclusively for about a decade and I can't really tell the difference between them honestly in terms of performance of normal web browsing.

I'm having some weird graphical issues with my NAS frontend Web portal display on Firefox atm though, so keep chromium installed for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I honestly don't understand why anyone would refuse to switch from away Chrome. It's not like the other browsers lack functionality or are slow. The only problem they might encounter is some rare incompatibility which is the result of Firefox (and its forks) small market share and web devs not caring enough.

I've never used Chrome as my primary browser and I don't think I missed anything. I started using Opera years before Chrome was even a thing (back when everyone was using IE) and then when the old Opera died, I didn't think even for a second about switching to Chrome and went straight to Firefox. Which could at least be highly customized to bring some Opera exclusive features (eg. mouse gestures, tab grouping) back.