Comment on Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How long until Google starts paying sites to require chrome? The already tried rolling that concept out a few months ago. They only stopped because of the backlash that was publicly associated with it. They already pay major phone manufacturers to have google as their default or only search option.

  So who’s going to stop them when we start finding that major popular sites suddenly don’t work on firefox?

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  • kzhe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hopefully the EU

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  • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People could start configuring their sites to ban Google Chrome. Give a scary message that says something like “Google Chrome is not allowed on this site for your protection. Google Chrome has severe vulnerabilities that allow for easy infection. An autistic teenager was falsely convicted of selling CP after being infected and now must register for life.”

    People would switch away from Google Chrome incredibly fast if website owners started posting that.

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    • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like the way you think, but that sounds like a lawsuit with one of the richest companies on the planet behind the prosecution. Could work for sites based outside of US jurisdiction.

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      • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They can’t sue millions of people.

        It could also be made very hard for them to win. All someone has to do is make a site making that claim and their ability to win will be gone. Any defendant can claim they read that site.

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  • yoshisaur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If that does happen, can’t we just spoof our user agent to be chrome?

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Their web integrity API they were planning was specifically to prevent that.

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      • yoshisaur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I had no idea… didn’t that end up being canceled at some point or am I mistaken?

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think there are more reliable ways to identify your browser. The user-agent is self reported, so not reliable. It’s just the simplest option that’s usually good enough unless you’re doing something malicious.

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  • AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They won’t pay them it will be smarter than that. Possibly with proprietary APIs that only work on chrome etc. some sites already don’t work on Firefox.

    They’ll also further enshitifiy their own services on non chrome browsers.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then we’ll develop add-ons that make the sites pretend Firefox is Chrome. It may not be perfect for a while, but it’ll still block ads.

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  • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like they will create a non-corporate version of the internet by accident. Sound good to me, but I feel like it won’t fly in EU to well.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When sites see the drop off of users.

    Also, Chromite exists.

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