Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For those of us who work in (or love) tech - we (myself included) grossly overestimate how much the general public cares about, or cares to be informed about, this stuff. Heck, even people in tech who know better.

  I wish it wasn’t the case but look how long and hard Microsoft moved on Internet Explorer and ActiveX back in the early days of the web.

  Google and Chrome is just another bit of history repeating.

  As an aside, I’ve been using Zen for about a week and it’s been wonderful. Easy transition from Firefox because it largely is Firefox, so anll my containers, extensions, annd settings carried over. Zen’s workspaces provide exactly the promise I’d hoped “tab groups” brought with Safari (but never worked right). I just wish there was an equivalent to the Hush plug-in on Safari (even after a year of full-timing FF, consent-o-matic is quite poor).

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  • Orygin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah I work in tech and I’m the only one that cares enough to use Firefox. All my colleagues use chrome or chrome with makeup.
    Maybe ad blocking will be what broke the camel’s back, but I doubt more than a few will care enough to switch.

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• FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I kinda have to at work. Our classroom computers reset between classes and Chrome is the only browser installed. I might ask IT about that, moving forward, given uBlock getting neutered soon.

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  • alphabethunter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have a similar issue at my school as well. Chrome is the only allowed browser, and each of us have to use our own school email as our login session in chrome, so we get that much of user space, and that actually works quite decently. I had ublock installed on my user account so far, but if it breaks, I’ll just have to suffer. Although, the real problem is that the school I work in uses some digital books that only work 100% in Chrome, and all show some form of weird behaviour in non-chromiun based browsers. And there’s a 0 chance they are changing it.

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• stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s not about intelligence it’s about what keeps you up at night. Most people aren’t bothered by cookies and ads, somehow.

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  • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    this is something i cannot understand. my brain would fking die from the seizures the modern, ad infested web induces.

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    • omarfw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It used to be worse. Pop ups are mostly a thing of the past. The web used to be a shit hole and there were no ad blockers back then.

      Regardless, you’re right. I don’t understand why or how people could be ignorant of the existence of adblock in 2024 unless they’re boomers.

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      • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Since ads began, there have been ad-blockers. You just didn’t know about them.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And the creepiness. Advertisers can deduce many habits based on the information you give them. Some techniques can tell when people are pregnant before they do based on their pathing inside the store, for instance.

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      • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And yet, all they continue to sell me is a dryer when I just bought one a month ago.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Most people are stupid, myopic imbeciles that arent bothered by anything until it personally affects them.

    Then they’ll howl like wolves at the moon about the great injustice of it all, and how could anyone allow this to happen.

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• dsilverz@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The problem here is not just Chrome (as in Google Chrome) but Chromium, the web engine behind many browsers out there (such as Opera, Vivaldi, Edge, among many many others). For now there are two main web engines available, those being Chromium and Gecko (Firefox, Palemoon and many other Firefox forks). The deprecation of Manifest v2 is a Chromium change that includes (and focuses on) Chrome.

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• cultsuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’d be amazed at what seemingly intelligent people will do or say or believe.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know people who I thought brilliant until they said they were voting for trump. Way to shatter my opinion of you, jagoff.

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m only using it atm for extensions that are, ironically enough, blocked on Firefox… Though thats only one website in particular.

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