Definitely time to ditch Chrome, but also even more of a reason to set up a PiHole https://pi-hole.net/
Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
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Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#42Chromium / Blink is open source, we should be doing everything we can to get as many users using non-Google Chromium browsers. We really shouldn't be having to worry so much about Google's conflicts of interests. Brave and Blink-based Edge are looking to be better and better options. Another is UnGoogled-Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Would love to see this latter option becoming something th…
I'm also very fond of Vivaldi, and I intend to switch one of these days.
It would be especially nice if we can get the Vivaldi developers to fork Blink to keep the old API around.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#43That's it, Getting myself a pi-hole.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#44Here are browsers that aren't just 'not Chrome,' they are better. Brave: https://brave.com/ Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Does the webRequest API deprecation also impact Chromium, and therefore Brave as well? Brave seems like it's willing to backfill in changes to Chromium, but I'm wondering how this impacts the browser overall.
I use Brave as my daily driver (with Shields Up and uBlock Origin), but I'm not sure what the actual impact will be when it comes.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#45Google is essentially saying that Chrome will still have the capability to block unwanted content, but this will be restricted to only paid, enterprise users of Chrome. Never heard of a paid version of Chrome before! Can anyone elaborate on this? I gotta say I'm kind of glad Google is doing this. It will force me to finally abandon Chrome, something I should have done awhile ago.
Googler here, but I do not work on Chrome and I’m speaking on a personal capacity. I believe this is a misnomer. The enterprise deployment stuff I’m aware of in Chrome/Chromium is accessible by any user, as far as I know, and in the past I’ve used it to force private browsing on always for my own personal usage. That said, I switched to Firefox when Quantum came out and haven’t looked back. Mozilla has done some anno…
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#46Going as planned I presume. Step 1: Enable "Built-In Ad-Blocker" Step 2: Disable all other ad-blocks from store for some reason Step 3: Allow only ads from Google ad-network
> Step 3: Allow only ads from Google ad-network
They can't do that, this is an anti-trust lost case for them.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#47I'm glad I already made the switch to FireFox. I only use Chrome to access Google apps, because for some strange reason they work a lot better in Chrome... The only thing I miss is a Session Buddy equivalent. When my computer crashes, it's nice to be able to restore all my tabs and windows, and also it's nice to be able to close a bunch of windows when I travel and then go back to my tab state from three weeks ago.
Firefox has session restore, which also works when the browser is closed abruptly. Is it now working for you?
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it just restores some of the tabs and windows. It's really inconsistent.
Also it lacks the granularity of session buddy, which has a list of every tab and window configuration I've ever had.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Googler here, but I do not work on Chrome and I’m speaking on a personal capacity. I believe this is a misnomer. The enterprise deployment stuff I’m aware of in Chrome/Chromium is accessible by any user, as far as I know, and in the past I’ve used it to force private browsing on always for my own personal usage. That said, I switched to Firefox when Quantum came out and haven’t looked back. Mozilla has done some anno…
Is it this? https://cloud.google.com/chrome-enterprise/browser/download
Looks like some useful stuff for deploying to Enterprise, but actually as far as I know the enterprise functionality exists in normal installations. Like for example, this stuff:
http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3
To be honest, I am not the most knowledgeable here; I just know I used the enterprise policy system on my personal laptop without issue.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#49I'm glad I already made the switch to FireFox. I only use Chrome to access Google apps, because for some strange reason they work a lot better in Chrome... The only thing I miss is a Session Buddy equivalent. When my computer crashes, it's nice to be able to restore all my tabs and windows, and also it's nice to be able to close a bunch of windows when I travel and then go back to my tab state from three weeks ago.
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Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#50I'm glad I already made the switch to FireFox. I only use Chrome to access Google apps, because for some strange reason they work a lot better in Chrome... The only thing I miss is a Session Buddy equivalent. When my computer crashes, it's nice to be able to restore all my tabs and windows, and also it's nice to be able to close a bunch of windows when I travel and then go back to my tab state from three weeks ago.
I use a Firefox addon called Session Boss. It might be what you're looking for.
Yes! Thank you! I don't know why my searching failed to find this, but it is in fact exactly what I was looking for. If this were Reddit I'd give you Gold. You're my hero.