This has been coming since they announced Manifest v3. Anyone paying any attention at all knew this was going to happen.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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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 if it would have happened.
Use Firefox.
This is the easiest problem to solve.
Switch to Firefox, be happy.
Who gives a fuck? Just stop using chrome
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.
this stumps me, when an alternatice can be installed in 2 seconds like every other app
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
New??
New??
New?
New‽
¿New?
GNU
New???
LibreWolf
Mullvad
Two current best forks of FF for a discerning customer.
Add uBlock to hurt ad tech
New???
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
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.
(which means you have to update the extension to get updated ad lists)
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.
That's why I don't use chrome.
New?
New?
The amount of disconnect with reality in the comments on this is / will continue to be hilarious
Chrome is shit. Never liked it and only use it at work.
Nu?
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.
Knew?