Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Post by valiant-comma » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:40 AM UTC

ravenstine wrote: post #269

Slightly off topic, I'm finding it very disingenuous that people in this thread(and any other threads that come up about Firefox) have actually had significant performance issues with Firefox. No bugs that are noteworthy, sans that fiasco with the expired certificate that disabled addons briefly. I've been using Firefox since "quantum" on both my MacBooks(one of which is old AF) and on Linux. I've yet to have problem…

Post by marcus_holmes » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:44 AM UTC

plorkyeran wrote: post #357

justinrlle wrote: post #276

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My understanding is that this change in the extensions API will land in Chromium first, and so any browser depending on the extension mechanism of Chromium will be impacted, like Opera and Vivaldi. If I'm not guessing wrong, Opera and Vivaldi are compatible with Chrome extensions because they use the extension mechanism of Chromium, so they'll need additional maintenance burden to keep the `webRequest` API working.

Since they're keeping the API around for enterprise versions I'd expect them to leave it in Chromium and just have it be disabled by default.

Post by techntoke » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:45 AM UTC

spilk wrote: post #334

opan wrote: post #307

I see a lot of comments saying to switch to Firefox, or people saying they're already using Firefox. This is fine, but I don't think people should be totally comfortable with this. Switching to the one other choice still leaves us in danger of the whole web being controlled by a few programs. We should encourage other browser projects as well. I've seen some cool browser projects, but mostly they use webkit still. I'…

Also, Mozilla is largely dependent on Google via their default-search arrangement, so even if it's not Webkit/Blink based, Google still has significant influence.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:48 AM UTC

jwalton wrote: post #439

ravenstine wrote: post #269

Slightly off topic, I'm finding it very disingenuous that people in this thread(and any other threads that come up about Firefox) have actually had significant performance issues with Firefox. No bugs that are noteworthy, sans that fiasco with the expired certificate that disabled addons briefly. I've been using Firefox since "quantum" on both my MacBooks(one of which is old AF) and on Linux. I've yet to have problem…

I've been using Firefox since Quantum, too. The one place where I consistently run into problems is the debugger - it's much slower than Chrome's, and sometimes it gets stuck with a "Loading..." in the source view that never loads. I use it... But sometimes I get frustrated enough to fire up Chrome to debug something.

Post by toddwprice » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:50 AM UTC

behringer wrote: post #391

ljm wrote: post #98

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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…

If it doesn't work in Firefox I don't use it. I've been using Firefox for as long as I can remember, probably shortly after it was made and Netscape died. And would never use Chrome. Chrome users are now going to be betrayed and just didn't see it coming. I look forward to Firefox' upcoming rebound which I have every faith this news will spur on.