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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The modern Internet is completely unusable without an ad blocker. Way to remake ie6, Google!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Even with an ad blocker, it gets more unusable every year that goes by

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

I already know a few people who were just marginally digitally literate, and now they can't read things like news articles and access several kinds of services anymore, unless someone helps them, because they don't property know how to close invasive popups and solve captchas.

The internet is literally becoming unusable for some people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'm in my mid 60s and know a few people that never even heard the term "browser extension" before. How they tolerate using the web with no ad blocking is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

DO YOU WANT TO ACCEPT OUR COOKIES OR CUSTOMIZE THESE BULLSHIT OPTIONS???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only options I want are Girl Scout thin mints or peanut butter cookies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Missing Samoas, those are delicious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Every time I turn off uBlock and reload a webpage I'm like "JFC this is eye cancer".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Got my boomer mom to finally install an ad blocker. She was tired of looking at a webpage, having an ad give some kind of script run error, and then it reloads back at the top. It’s a big problem on the cooking websites she goes to.

I would rather go back to the days of shitty pop-ups you can just close. These ads are far worse, and none of them even make sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the cooking websites she goes to.

https://based.cooking/ doesn't have everything, but it's growing and the site is very clean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is amazing and thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What a really interesting initiative. I will try to contribute some things in their repo.