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[Mental Outlaw] The End of Ad Blockers In Chrome (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please consider helping a friend by helping them migrate off of Chrome and towards something like:

Firefox [Desktop, Mobile]
Librewolf [Desktop]
Waterfox [Desktop, Mobile]
Falkon [Desktop]

Google's beginning to roll out the deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions which includes ad blockers. Extensions are still manually installable but the process is no longer accessible for non-power users.

In addition to the continued enshitification of Chrome it seems that Google is also kneecapping people's privacy and security:

“You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance,”

Cybernews research team

Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance

Google Will Track Your Location ‘Every 15 Minutes’—‘Even With GPS Disabled’

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Also possibly Fennec for mobile. It's Firefox based but cleaned up like Librewolf.

That and Brave & Vivaldi have built in adblock that allows them to keep MV2 era adblocking despite being Chromium based.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I like Zen browser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't Falkon pretty much dead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Surprisingly Falkon's still receiving updates and is still in active development as indicated by their Project Repo

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Falkon is a part of KDE Applications and KDE Gear, which are released typically 3 times a year en-masse