Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024::The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
What a great selling point for Firefox.
WE BLOCK ADS!
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/
Comments
joel1974@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oneobi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never looked into using firefox but the enshitification has forced me to do so.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
awesome browser imo. and i switched back from opera GX
ironcrotch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which is second to the greatest feature, containers!
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google Chrome can suck a dick.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Damn, that sounds like a killer feature.
prole@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, but given the name, I bet Edge does it way better ;)
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If only there was an alternative. Some kinda fox. A fox that was set aflame
ABCDE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish it was for me, but Chrome is necessary for some work I do.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, I get “Google bad”, and agree, and am 100% on the Firefox train, but downvoting people for not using FF is kinda stinky.
Rolando@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So use Chrome for that work, and Firefox plus an adblocker for everything else.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 11 months ago
Have you tried to spoof the user agent ?
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or, let’s say, a weasel frozen in ice
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s a browser called Glacier Ferret? 🤔
Huschke@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or - ohh I don’t know - some kind of frozen bird?
Winnem@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ve tried switching so many times, most recently yesterday. Every time something just doesnt work or is missing. Yesterday it was stremios web client that refused to show the video that I was simultaneously watching in chrome.
And the fact that Firefox doesnt do tab groups. Such a convenient feature for me, and I couldnt find an extension that did the job. Maybe some of you can help?
teichflamme@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Absolutely agree on the tab groups. I don’t get how this is not implemented yet, it’s a basic feature with great impact to usability.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you refresh it generally works. I’ve had zero issues with it. Not sure though
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
My Firefox does tab groups. Just find an extension
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To abuse a saying…
Best time to be on Firefox? Yesterday. Second best? Today.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 11 months ago
Free ad for Firefox. Funny enough can’t be blocked by ad blockers.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 11 months 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?
kzhe@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hopefully the EU
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months 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.
yoshisaur@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If that does happen, can’t we just spoof our user agent to be chrome?
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 11 months 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.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
When sites see the drop off of users.
Also, Chromite exists.
Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 11 months ago
title as it should be: ‘google did not die a hero, it instead lived long enough to become the villain.’
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
such old news though
google became the villain the moment it decided to become publicly traded and chose to be the internet’s ad pimp rather than a search engine
Ch0wW@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Laughs in Firefox
PlexSheep@feddit.de 11 months ago
Came here to laugh at this.
protput@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just can’t get used to Firefox. Last time I tried it (earlier this year), I tried for 2 months. Can’t remember all the reasons, but using the adresbar as calculator and see the results without pressing enter is so ingrained in my way of working. Just alt+d, 2+2 shows the result. Give me something better than that and I’ll give Firefox an other shot.
nelsondelmonte@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
You can map a keyboard shortcut to the calculator in Windows and have a more robust option no matter what browser you use.
jamyang@programming.dev 11 months ago
I recommend Floorp, a fork of Firefox that is getting popular these days.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Why the hell aren’t you on Firefox?
Akinzekeel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because bold fonts look weird in Firefox and I have not found a way to change that
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Weird do you have a screen shot you can share? they look fine to me.
Could it be something withyour windows installation?
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s been forever since I last looked, but can’t you actually change what fonts are used from within Firefox directly?
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months ago
They’re going to burn their own browser. If they stop allowing adblockers, a lot of people are just going to change browsers.
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
good, and good riddance too
SqueezeMeMacaroni@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
I would love to see this happen but I suspect that the number of users who actually install ad blocker extensions and are willing to switch to a new browser once they stop working is fairly insignificant compared to the total numbers of people browsing in Chrome.
nutsack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
google chrome will suck my balls
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google Chrome has always been near my taint
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never thought this would be the thing that drove me to degoogled myself, but here we are. I put myself back in an apple silo purely out of spite. Converted all my gmails to other services, like hey.com and tutanota, I PAY a search engine now Kagi.com.
They really burned my soul. Fuck Google.
wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why not switch to Linux and FOSS alternatives?
h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 11 months ago
+1 for Kagi. $9/month is well worth every dime, considering that searching is one of my main workflow. Google search results are now full of rubbish—ads, SEO-boost junk articles.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Everything Google does is evil. How are people still using anything they make—or control the repo for (chromium, android)
ultra@feddit.ro 11 months ago
At least Android actually gives you freedom. What other alternatives (that actually work) are there? I’d rather have a phone with an OS made by an evil corp that I can actually control, than an OS that doesn’t even let me install apps not approved by the manufacturer.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They make fantastic services that are far more functional than their oss competitors and it’s far far less effort than hosting and dealing with that bullshit.
slipperydippery@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That seems slightly hyperbolic
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It didn’t start that way, it wasn’t until they had dominance in multiple areas that they started fucking their customers, but the difference here is that it’s stupid easy to change to Firefox, Safari, or gasp Edge.
wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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School/university online classes and messaging/collaboration
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Business enterprise messaging/collaboration locked to Google services
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Business enterprise sites locked to Chromium based browsers
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Government sites locked to Chromium based browsers
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badbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In other news: Firefox installs are breaking records.
EddieTee77@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is that true? I would love for more people to experience Firefox
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hi Firefox. It’s been a while…
nolight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It shouldn’t have been a while
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
People keep saying (and corpos keep believing) that normies will just “get used to the ads or pay a premium”
But everybody has a breaking point. People who already dislike it have left chrome or are in the rush to leave. Once people reach this point, they will start asking their more tech savvy friends or the Internet for a better way.
I honestly hope Google will not change its trajectory because sooner or later, people will get fed up with their bullshit.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yes, I like the direction Google is going. More people need to favor non-profit software.
vxx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I paid for YouTube premium for quite a while but cancelled because it wouldn’t stop recommending the same video I’ve “not interested” for too many times, and also for pushing far right propaganda and pseudo science when all I watch is gaming related content and some space and engineering content.
Browsing the Internet without add blockers literally breaks the pages and makes one vulnerable to malware.
ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As if I’ll have money for discretionary purchases anyway. Fucking idiots.
kandoh@reddthat.com 11 months ago
When making billions isn’t enough there is something wrong with you
RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 months ago
Does anyone on lemmy use chrome?
time_fo_that@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fire. Fox.
egeres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok, I get all the hate towards google chrome. But pragmatically speaking, will this boost firefox? I feel like even nowadays a ton of people don’t even know about adblockers, I’m not sure if they will do the switch to a whole different browser…
joel_feila@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Will this affect chromium based browsers too
TheLobotomist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s roughly a month that I switched to firefox on pc and android and I’ve never been happier!
firewyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Talk about misunderstanding your user base… The backlash will be tremendous. I’m considering banning Chrome at work because of the security risk of letting business people use the Internet without the protection of an ad blocker.
m3t00@lemmy.world 11 months ago
chrome keeps locking up my win11 today. posting from ff now, again. gg google
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 11 months ago
And may they burn
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Let see what’s happening in a year… for now everything fine when the time comes then people will have to find a solution but anyway who cares what Google say haha…
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Firefox users who never left: feeling of smugness intensifies
cybervseas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I try not to express or show it though. Only good vibes to bring everyone over to Firefox.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
signature look of superiority
krimson@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I must admit I ditched Firefox for a while when it was considerably slower than Chrome.
feelsbadman.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Welcome back. <3
lemann@lemmy.one 11 months ago
The last time I used Chrome was a fork called Rockmelt 🥴 then moved to Maxthon, then K-Meleon, and settled on Firefox
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think I dropped it for a few years starting somewhere around v3.6. Also feelsbad
Huschke@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m ashamed to say I did the same and even converted quite a few non-tech savvy people as well. :(
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re so smug that you love to smell your own farts!
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The trick is to not let your smugness show, then you can be smug about your humility as well. *sniff* Ahhhh…
Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Same as reddit to lemmy story for me. Moving mobile browser from kiwi(chrome fork) to Firefox nightly. Already a Firefox user in pc.