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

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• ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.
  • Firefox is Firefox.
  • Privacy and security focused chromium based browsers will have to implement proper native ad blocking.

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• Kumabear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am not using Firefox…

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

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  • lando55@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to use Firefox.

    I still do, but I used to too.

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    • LunarVoyager@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Alto@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      RIP Mitch

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  • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cool story bro. Completely irrelevant comment for this post but cool story anyway.

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• FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People are fighting ads and switching browsers.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.

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    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

      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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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every other Google Chromium fork will need to maintain an increasingly complex set of changes to the Google repository

      Yet infinitely easier than building a new browser from the bottom up

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks to Lemmy, I’m browsing on Firefox on Linux Arch…

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  • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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  • badmemes@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And before you did what?

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Chrome on Mac

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  • SaintWacko@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hm, should I try switching my old Surface Pro 3 from PopOS to Arch?

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try Hanna Montana first.

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• ArugulaZ@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google's ads can lick my nads.

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• holdthecheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m glad you read the article, since it seems like nobody else in the comment section has!

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• pirat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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• sulsaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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