For crying out loud they’re not just targeting adblockers.
Google Chrome is killing more extensions than you think - is your old favorite on the list?
Submitted 2 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
PanArab@lemm.ee 2 months ago
- Embrace
- Extend
- Extinguish <<< we are here
tonytins@pawb.social 2 months ago
XMPP all over again.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yeah they essentially killed about half the extensions I use. I have to use the browser for work.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I only care about adblocking, so ControlD+Brave for me.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Brave is a Chromium browser.
Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes, but its maintaining support for these extentions… for now at least.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m just worried about how zdnet presumes to know what I think.
Google kills things, that’s what they do. They can get fucked.
richardisaguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No
Sliversun@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Glad that I moved to firefox 4 months ago and then to zen browser last week to avoid plugins removal. Haven’t looked back
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
So, the elephant in the room is Chrome killing ad-blocking.
I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s always PiHole to block ads at the network level. It takes some setup and a raspberry pi but it can be one of the cheaper ones. And I’m pretty sure the sites aren’t going to do much more than check the User Agent to get the browser so User Agent Switcher will get around 99% of that.
You could, I suppose, block Firefox in other ways (like maybe checking for some random Chromium feature not yet supported in Firefox) but Firefox isn’t usually far behind Chrome so it would almost take an entire new developer to be effective. And there’s probably ways around that too. (I’m a web developer but have never worked on an ad-supported project and never will so I’m not sure but life finds a way.)