I bet it won't block all the damn "download our shitty app instead of using the fully functional website we have" full screen popups...
Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
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Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#22This should be great on mobile. On mobile there are no extensions and there are at least two news sites I frequent that abuse it by showing a full page popup before every article.
Have you tried using DNS66 as adblocker?
It's implemented as local-running VPN and doesn't require root. I'm using it since a year or so and quite happy with it.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/ https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#23I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it's muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.
Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#24I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it's muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.
They are all probably too rich to understand the concept of paying for mobile data.
Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#25This should be great on mobile. On mobile there are no extensions and there are at least two news sites I frequent that abuse it by showing a full page popup before every article.
Adblock Plus works for Safari on iOS.
Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#26I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it's muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.
They are all probably too rich to understand the concept of paying for mobile data.
This way they can charge advertisers for a lot of fake "video engagement".
Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#27How is this not anti-competitive behavior?
If Microsoft was heavily fined for installing their own browser in their operating system, how is an advertising company like Google using their browser, which has the largest market share, to block competing ads not the same thing?!
Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#28I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it's muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.
They are all probably too rich to understand the concept of paying for mobile data.
It depends on where you are, I guess. I pay for data on my cell in France but the amount of data I am allowed each month before things start to slow down (100GB, up from 50GB a few months ago) means I never get close to getting throttled by auto-playing videos.
Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#29I wonder if this will be enabled on Chrome for mobile, too. Since Chrome doesn't have extensions, and therefore ublock origin, on mobile, Google has little incentive to enable it there. I assume they will enable it there, too, but you never know.
Re: Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
#30Long as I can keep using uBlock Origin and disable theirs it's fine with me.
Still doesn't make it ok, from an anti-competitive standpoint.
"As long as I can download Netscape, having IE pre-installed is fine with me."