Google confirms they will block Ublock Origin in chrome in 2024.

[Satsujinki]

Sauce from reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17wu2gz/google_confirms_they_will_disable_ublock_origin/


https://9to5google.com/2023/11/16/chrome-extensions-disabled/

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

And where do I go once they will block extension in 2024? Firefox? Or Brave? I say fudge them.

[Birds]

The nameless Commander a écrit :

That said, I stopped using Chrome as soon as I figured out just how much it keeps Malwarebytes busy. The third time it removed spyware and adware from my system each time I ran Chrome, there was an obvious pattern. Firefox from then on.

Malwarebytes has been unreliable for the better part of eight years now. Same dark money conglomerates buying them up as bought Avast!

[The nameless Gamer]

Birds a écrit :

The nameless Commander a écrit :

Google are the polar opposite. They are what corporate culture becomes without regulations. The only thing they're missing to be straight out of Shadowrun is a Dragon running the corporation.

How about a Hydra? They're the one actually running the UK, so...

Also it's arguable that all regulation is just an on-ramp for decentralized control, like we have now. It's historically true, if not necessarily true.

Unfortunately, our species isn't mature enough to function without some sort of boundaries set by an agreement and enforced by an administrative power. Regulations and laws as they are now are all but perfect, but they still provide a semblance or illusion of stability. I don't have blind faith in them but they seem to be doing a somewhat acceptable job... to varying degrees depending on the country/culture.

[Birds]

The nameless Commander a écrit :

Birds a écrit :

How about a Hydra? They're the one actually running the UK, so...

Also it's arguable that all regulation is just an on-ramp for decentralized control, like we have now. It's historically true, if not necessarily true.

Unfortunately, our species isn't mature enough to function without some sort of boundaries set by an agreement and enforced by an administrative power. Regulations and laws as they are now are all but perfect, but they still provide a semblance or illusion of stability. I don't have blind faith in them but they seem to be doing a somewhat acceptable job... to varying degrees depending on the country/culture.

I don't really understand your concept of biological autonomy; do all my cells have to phase through matter without my brain's consent to function?

Kind of like how Hydras don't think, they just ride ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?

[HALO_run]

doesn't bother me i don't use add block

[Boblin the Goblin]

Birds a écrit :

The nameless Commander a écrit :

That said, I stopped using Chrome as soon as I figured out just how much it keeps Malwarebytes busy. The third time it removed spyware and adware from my system each time I ran Chrome, there was an obvious pattern. Firefox from then on.

Malwarebytes has been unreliable for the better part of eight years now. Same dark money conglomerates buying them up as bought Avast!

Source for that?

[Birds]

SlowMango a écrit :

Birds a écrit :

Malwarebytes has been unreliable for the better part of eight years now. Same dark money conglomerates buying them up as bought Avast!

Source for that?

For what, Avast! and Malwarebytes going to the same dark money connections? No, it's dark money.

Or for Malwarebytes being unreliable, like the person in the other post provided first hand experience of?

[Chibi Life]

I moved to Brave in 2021 and never regretted it

[Boblin the Goblin]

Birds a écrit :

SlowMango a écrit :

Source for that?

For what, Avast! and Malwarebytes going to the same dark money connections? No, it's dark money.

Or for Malwarebytes being unreliable, like the person in the other post provided first hand experience of?

Anecdotal evidence doesn't make a whole program unreliable. Otherwise, my evidence of Malwarebytes doing fine overrides theirs.

But yes, a source for the 'dark money'.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Chibi Life a écrit :

I moved to Brave in 2021 and never regretted it

The ManifestV3 update is going to affect all chromium based browsers. Brave is one of those.

[Birds]

SlowMango a écrit :

Birds a écrit :

For what, Avast! and Malwarebytes going to the same dark money connections? No, it's dark money.

Or for Malwarebytes being unreliable, like the person in the other post provided first hand experience of?

Anecdotal evidence doesn't make a whole program unreliable. Otherwise, my evidence of Malwarebytes doing fine overrides theirs.

But yes, a source for the 'dark money'.

Last I heard the people who purchased them, and then downgraded the free software, were a series of shell companies with indeterminate owners.

The paper trails all lead into the bahamas, the caymans, and Switzerland, and then end.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Birds a écrit :

SlowMango a écrit :

Anecdotal evidence doesn't make a whole program unreliable. Otherwise, my evidence of Malwarebytes doing fine overrides theirs.

But yes, a source for the 'dark money'.

Last I heard the people who purchased them, and then downgraded the free software, were a series of shell companies with indeterminate owners.

So there isn't a source?

Considering the free version doesn't have any less actual detection than the paid. You just get convenience features with the paid like live scanning and scheduled scanning.

[Chibi Life]

SlowMango a écrit :

Chibi Life a écrit :

I moved to Brave in 2021 and never regretted it

The ManifestV3 update is going to affect all chromium based browsers. Brave is one of those.

Brave has a built-in ad-block it isn't part of an extension. I ain't worried since tracker/adblocking and privacy are the only selling points for Brave (Their BAT tokens are trash), they are already planning on how to deal with this.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Chibi Life a écrit :

SlowMango a écrit :

The ManifestV3 update is going to affect all chromium based browsers. Brave is one of those.

Brave has a built-in ad-block it isn't part of an extension. I ain't worried since tracker/adblocking and privacy are the only selling points for Brave (Their BAT tokens are trash), they are already planning on how to deal with this.

The built-in adblock is just an extension that's built in. It still needs the same permissions that a regular extension does.

[Electric Cupcake]

Chibi Life a écrit :

SlowMango a écrit :

The ManifestV3 update is going to affect all chromium based browsers. Brave is one of those.

Brave has a built-in ad-block it isn't part of an extension. I ain't worried since tracker/adblocking and privacy are the only selling points for Brave (Their BAT tokens are trash), they are already planning on how to deal with this.

Manifest v3 is a war crime on it's own. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/2/ is worse.

[Chibi Life]

SlowMango a écrit :

Chibi Life a écrit :

Brave has a built-in ad-block it isn't part of an extension. I ain't worried since tracker/adblocking and privacy are the only selling points for Brave (Their BAT tokens are trash), they are already planning on how to deal with this.

The built-in adblock is just an extension that's built in. It still needs the same permissions that a regular extension does.

The dude who invented Javascript is the CEO of Brave. I ain't worried. You are acting like nothing can be hacked or exploited.

I'd also like to point out that an overwhelming majority of people have gotten used to an ad free internet.

Let me tell you what goes through my head to allow me to not worry about this:

Big tech is trash. Big tech has gotten this big by stomping out competition everywhere they go. By going this far to shut down the blocking of ads they merely open the door for alt-tech to swoop in and begin ACTUALLY taking customers away this time.

We basically need big tech to screw up this badly to get people away from them.

Even the people who are watching ads for some odd reason complain heavily about them.