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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome

www.spacebar.news Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome

An explanation of Manifest V3, why it matters, and what uBlock Origin is doing about it.

Technology @beehaw.org Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome

Technology @lemmy.ml Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome

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So, in short:

Google is not killing ad blockers, but merely chopping off both legs and arms in the name of security.

ublock Origin is implementing a lite version for chromium browsers, supposedly being pretty decent given the circumstances.

Old Manifest V2 extensions will be disabled in June 2024 and Manifest V2 will be removed in June 2025.

Firefox is Firefox.

Privacy and security focused chromium based browsers will have to implement proper native ad blocking.
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I am now using Firefox…

I mean I was using Firefox before this, but I also am now as well you know.

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- I used to use Firefox.
  
  I still do, but I used to too.
  
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  RIP Mitch
  
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- Cool story bro. Completely irrelevant comment for this post but cool story anyway.
  
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People are fighting ads and switching browsers.

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  Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.
  
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  For anyone interested, as of November 2023:
  
  Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox's engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox. Edit: and Fennec
  
  Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.
  
  Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.
  
  The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple's engine), and Blink (Google's engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).
  
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Here's what happening to me: I went to Firefox.

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- Well, you say that, but this is what happened to me: I went to Firefox.
  
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  I, too, happened to me: Firefox.
  
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Thanks to Lemmy, I’m browsing on Firefox on Linux Arch…

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- I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who went on a bit of an open-source mania because of all the Linux and FOSS nerds on here.
  
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  It's a great lifestyle, been a Linux main for about 15+ years, or around half my life so far. Highly recommend it to anyone who thinks it's fun to use good software.
  
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- And before you did what?
  
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  Chrome on Mac
  
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- Hm, should I try switching my old Surface Pro 3 from PopOS to Arch?
  
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  Try Hanna Montana first.
  
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Google's ads can lick my nads.

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Interesting that article comes to the conclusion that uBlockOrigin Lite is basically as effective as the original and works on the new Manifest v3.

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- I'm glad you read the article, since it seems like nobody else in the comment section has!
  
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When I went to read the comments of this post, and for some reason it took 10 sec for them to show up in my client, I thought of Google...

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I am forever grateful for my father having Firefox installed on the xp hand-me-down that became my first computer

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