he's referring to the fact that almost all browsers use chrome's rendering engine and google is abusing its position of leadership by making unnecessary api changes that make adblocking extensions all but impossible to implement.

if you want to still be able to block ads on the web in the years to come, switch to a non-chrome web browser to limit google's power and ability to abuse its position.

i think as of now, they have delayed the sabotage, but it's coming.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/chrome-delays-plan-to-limit-ad-blockers-new-timeline-coming-in-march/

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

what are some non-google based browsers?

[–] ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Depending on the operating system this could be Safari on OSX, Firefox, Brave on basically anything, Opera, if it still exists, Konqueror on Linux (fun fact: I think most current browser engines spawned from that), or lynx if you're hardcore

[–] mkll@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave is Chromium based

[–] ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it an independent fork?

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's based on Chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/README.md

This repository holds the build tools needed to build the Brave desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux. In particular, it fetches and syncs code from the projects defined in package.json and src/brave/DEPS:

Chromium

[…]

brave-core

Maintains patches for 3rd party Chromium code.

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