Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Post by fiblye » Thu, May 30, 2019, 12:04 AM UTC

mises wrote: post #77

enitihas wrote: post #54

Another big issue is that if chrome makes it difficult to disable ads such that 99% of chrome users aren't able to do it, websites may simply choose to block Firefox as it would be easy to do so without losing a large part of user base while making sure no users are blocking ads. Right now there are far too many users using ad blockers.

Blocking a user agent? Oh no, whatever shall we do? Thankfully, we can still just change it, though I suppose a really insidious web site could use feature checks.

Post by bscphil » Thu, May 30, 2019, 12:05 AM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #127

I recently setup Pihole as the DNS server for my entire home network and said farewell to my Adblock extensions. It's glorious.

Post by hu3 » Thu, May 30, 2019, 12:06 AM UTC

fiblye wrote: post #177

thrower123 wrote: post #88

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Microsoft might just have the horsepower to keep up with any particularly shitty changes that Google might potentially try to push through, better than some of the other Chromium skins. At least if they want to.

Microsoft displays ads within their OS. They would join arms with Google if they honestly decided to tackle adblocking.

Post by greenyoda » Thu, May 30, 2019, 12:07 AM UTC

bscphil wrote: post #160

user17843 wrote: post #53

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Indeed, almost the entire ad-blocking market is controlled by the company behind Adblock Plus (eyeo GmbH), who has contracts with Google. It appears they also own AdBlock, and uBlock (not confused with uBO), so during the last years they basically tried to capture the entire market. The fact that Eyeo has >150 employees tells us something about the amount of money to be made from ad blocking. Although they have only…

>almost the entire ad-blocking market is controlled by the company behind Adblock Plus (eyeo GmbH), who has contracts with Google. It appears they also own AdBlock, and uBlock (not confused with uBO), so during the last years they basically tried to capture the entire market. This makes me wonder if there's any way we can give gorhill a bunch of money in donations. He's in a much more important position than I previo…

Post by Klonoar » Thu, May 30, 2019, 12:07 AM UTC

ljm wrote: post #134

user17843 wrote: post #109

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The problem is the only way to combat Google in this regards would be for smaller players to come together and form an open-source working group based on a chromium fork. (The train has already left the station for anything besides WebKit or Blink, since the lack of accessibility of Gecko means it will never be adopted by anyone else.) But most of them are directly financed by Google and have almost no common ground…

Is that true? IE was incumbent and Firefox unseated it. They had the legacy of Netscape, sure, but they didn’t throw the towel and reskin IE the same way other browsers of the time did. Besides that, at which point does the dominant search and advertising company of the internet get an antitrust case for this? People think google is trustworthy yet they do nothing to earn that trust.