Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    So … can we like finally dismiss Google Chrome as the obviously awful idea it is and which should never have made it this far and remind all of the web devs married to it that they’re doing bad things and are the reason why we can’t have nice things?

    Hmmm … a web browser owned by a monopolistic advertising company … how could that possibly go wrong!!!

    XKCD Comic depicting a conversation between someone who send an essay in dot doc, MS Word format, and another trying to convince them to use open source alternatives. The first person is abusively unconvinced, doesn't care about ensuring we have good software infrastructure and dismisses the open source advocate as smug and "probably autistic". In the final pane, the first person runs to the open-source-advocate second person panicking about facebook taking over everyone's social lives and doing evil things with it, in response to which the second person simply plays their "world's tiniest open source violin" as a clear "i told you so gesture"

  • idefix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    There’s only 34 million uBlock Origin users on Chrome? So, billions are using Chrome without any ad-blockers? That’s crazy and unsafe

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Most users are fucking idiots and will continue to raw-dog the internet while visiting the most malicious sites possible.

        • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Yes. Unfortunately. “a virus? How did I get that? What’s an anti-virus? You must be wrong, I just do a little bit of web browsing and downloading music.” (this was in the windows xp days that I’m specifically flashing back to)

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Stop using Chrome, it is adware at this point. Use Firefox or if that’s too different, use Brave or Edge or a different chromium offshoot that isn’t going to support manifest v3.

    • Potatisen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?

      Also, it’s chromium so… You’re getting V3 eventually.

      • TheBigBrother@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I have years using it and I have never been crypto scammed for it, about the V3 I truly don’t know apparently you will still be able to turn on some V2 extensions like ublock origin but I didn’t see the point of it if the browser include a good adblocker anyway.

        • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Same. The adblocker in Brave is great, its been ages since I ditched uBo and I’ve still to see a single ad. Built-in adblockers are good, because Google has no power there. Firefox, instead, its still a thing exclusively because of uBO i.e., the work of an external, unpaid developer. The say uBO disappears, is the day FF dies. Mozilla is so busy wasting time and money on unrelated stuff and huge CEO paychechs that they have had no the time to add and inbuilt advlocker to FF, which instead has useless crap such as Pockets and an opt-out ad-measurement tool which nobody asked for.