When will this actually kick in? Just wanna know how much longer I have on Chrome.
Wait, will Chromium have the same problem?
Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> smaller players to come together and form an open-source working group based on a chromium fork Google can and does use DRM to block even this from happening: https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked... Even Mozilla needed to license Widevine from Google to support modern video: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm Based on the policy evidenced in Maddock's post, it seems impossible t…
Use an open-source DRM solution?
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Actually no! In fact, responses like this make me afraid to post at all. Because, either I make honest disclosures that I work for Google, when talking about Google software or other things, or I try to be pseudonymous and not disclose. If I do the latter, well, that could have a lot of repercussions, it would be a violation of the social media policy as well, so it's not really worth considering, plus it even just f…
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why it’s so unfortunate and frustrating that people are depending so much on Chromium/Blink. Electron, various browsers that are just skins over the embedded framework... We were still dealing with legacy IE6 (and IE 7/8 by that point also) in 2013! Almost a decade since we got Firefox and the first version of Chrome. The web has empirically suffered through homogeneity and the lack of strong competitors in t…
> This is why it’s so unfortunate and frustrating that people are depending so much on Chromium/Blink Chromium is generally fine, until Google packages it as Chrome. The issues are not inherent to Chromium, they're failures of principle at Google. I know people like the idea, in concept, of engine diversity on the web, but the alternatives are terrible. Anyone who says that Firefox runs anywhere near as well as Chrom…
+1 for your first point - surely Chromium can still be used to create an ad-blocking browser.
I disagree with you after there.
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What's wrong with a google employee sharing their opinion on HN? If there are factual inaccuracies, you can down-vote or, more constructively, respond & refute. The OP disclosing a potential conflict of interest seems, to me, as being assiduously transparent.
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#216I'm confused about the difference between what people are saying here, and what chromium is working on. Referring to the email discussion of the feature: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte... " It's really unfortunate how many people seem to be commenting here without understanding what the proposed changes even are. To be clear: 1. This change _IS NOT INTENDED TO GIMP AD BLOCKERS_. Rather,…
This reads just like propaganda, frankly. It doesn't say anything firm, denies reality ("won't interfere, except it will impact uBlock"), etc. Also, according to the article, Google has since confirmed that it isn't going to budge, at all, on any of the issues that the comment you quote (which was from January) is addressed to.
It's not something I would put any credence in if my app or org depended on it.
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People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected. It's time to eliminate Google from your life as much as possible if you haven't already. Too many wake up calls. They are not a tech company, they are data monopolists. Stop giving them your data.
Funny how sometimes what everybody was waiting to happen just.... happens
> You were the Chosen One! You were supposed to destroy the Evil, not join them.
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#218Is there a good way to convert chrome saved passwords/history to firefox? Thinking I'll switch back to firefox.
ffpass works. https://github.com/louisabraham/ffpass
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#219https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin... If you are not using/contributing to firefox, you sold yourself short.
Unfortunately, Firefox’s resistFingerprinting is nowhere near as good as Safari’s. I still use Firefox on Windows, though.
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I've been using Firefox for the last two weeks or so. It's fine, but noticeably slower (on a 2018 MacBook Pro) when opening new tabs and especially dragging tabs into new windows. It also seems to get stuck resolving DNS sometimes, which is probably an artifact of the corporate network, but Chrome doesn't have that problem.
I know this is contentious, but I think the problem might be that you're using a razor-thin device with extreme thermal throttling problems. I experience no such slowdowns on a 2011 Acer econobook with an i5 and 4gb ram.
If their hardware was the issue, then the issue would be present with both browsers, but it isn't.