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.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Pirate☠️Pocah:

Why is it that people seem to think that the internet should be free? Google don't make billions out of being free.

No, they made billions out of being scummy.

Why is it that people suddenly support billion dollar corporations forcing malicious advertisements in users?

[MancSoulja]

Is it weird that I've never felt the need to use an ad-blocker?

[Hobbit XIII]

Chrome is heavily advertised as the developers toolbox .
I do not use it and am still happy.

[tyl0413]

Opprinnelig skrevet av MancSoulja:

Is it weird that I've never felt the need to use an ad-blocker?

Unless you're exclusively using indie sites yes, extremely weird.

[Ulfrinn]

Not using ad or script blockers is why if you have just a few tabs open you'll notice your browser can take 8gb or more of RAM. I've seen it go even higher. It's ridiculous just how much of YOUR hardware resources websites are taking up to run software in the background of your browser while you are on their sites. Block a few scripts and ads, your browsing experience is completely unaffected, but suddenly, your browser will never go above 2gb.

[Grimmz]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ulfrinn:

Not using ad or script blockers is why if you have just a few tabs open you'll notice your browser can take 8gb or more of RAM. I've seen it go even higher. It's ridiculous just how much of YOUR hardware resources websites are taking up to run software in the background of your browser while you are on their sites. Block a few scripts and ads, your browsing experience is completely unaffected, but suddenly, your browser will never go above 2gb.

yeah prett much. using an adblocker is not only for blocking ads, its actually more often used as a safety measure if anything. its not wrong to want to browse online content safely.

[Knee]

been using opera so im already set if google’s next move is against their own browser

[tyl0413]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Knee:

been using opera so im already set if google’s next move is against their own browser

Chrome = Chromium
All browsers using the engine are affected including Opera which is chinese spyware and comes with bloatware.
Only way to avoid this is to use a Gecko browser like Firefox, Librewolf, Mullvad, Tor.

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

I got an installation of Firefox going for the day that Google make chrome unusable.

[Grimmz]

Opprinnelig skrevet av tyl0413:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Knee:

been using opera so im already set if google’s next move is against their own browser

Chrome = Chromium
All browsers using the engine are affected including Opera which is chinese spyware and comes with bloatware.
Only way to avoid this is to use a Gecko browser like Firefox, Librewolf, Mullvad, Tor.

firefox is the goat.

[[N]ebsun]

Opprinnelig skrevet av tyl0413:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Knee:

been using opera so im already set if google’s next move is against their own browser

Chrome = Chromium
All browsers using the engine are affected including Opera which is chinese spyware and comes with bloatware.
Only way to avoid this is to use a Gecko browser like Firefox, Librewolf, Mullvad, Tor.

Chromium is open source... whatever they do to prevent ad blockers working can be undone.
Chrome runs on Chromium (2 separate things)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-projects/

[tyl0413]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Nebsun:

Opprinnelig skrevet av tyl0413:

Chrome = Chromium
All browsers using the engine are affected including Opera which is chinese spyware and comes with bloatware.
Only way to avoid this is to use a Gecko browser like Firefox, Librewolf, Mullvad, Tor.

Chromium is open source... whatever they do to prevent ad blockers working can be undone.

Yeah just like they keep replacing half of Android each year with Play Service proprietary stuff but some people still argue it's free software.
If 99.9% of real world users are running a spyware fork and the FOSS version is literally owned by the developers of the spyware fork and majority of contributors are working for them too that does not count as free software to me.
Good luck undoing even a portion of harmful changes Google does to Chromium, even Brave can barely do it.
At best thats a gross misrepresentation of what free software is supposed to be.

[Courier 6]

me who uses opera:

[AdahnGorion]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Hammer Of Evil:

firefox will still work great.

the only way they'll stop adblocking on youtube is to go to subscription only locked service, and ads won't matter at that point anyways.

besides, youtube isn't hte only kid on the block anymore, people will move wherever its easiest, google is just getting too power and too profit hungry.

A lot of creators and also youtube itself is thinking similar ways.
I predict a 5 euro a month membership to watch unlimited videos on youtube and non signed in will only be able to watch x amount of time on videos.

The newer generation are rather liable to commit to subscription services..

[Chibi Life]

Opprinnelig skrevet av SlowMango:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Chibi Life:

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.

The amount of users who use an ad-block are greatly outweighed by users who don't.

Got proof to those claims? Cuz Google seems to think otherwise or they wouldn't be going this far to ban it.