When will this actually kick in? Just wanna know how much longer I have on Chrome. Wait, will Chromium have the same problem?
Don't trust the Mozilla crowd with answers, they are like foaming at the mouth with hatred for anything that isn't Firefox.
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
#452This is great news for Firefox.
Not if you want hardware acceleration support in Linux. Not that most Firefox users care about open source operating systems.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#453From the author of uBlock on this: What we see are the public statements, for public consumption, they are designed to "sell" the changes to the wider public. What we do not see is what is being said in private meetings by officers who get to decide how to optimize the business. So we have to judge not by what is said for public consumption purpose, but by what in effect is being done, or what they plan to do. This i…
"The deprecation of the blocking ability of the WebRequest API is to gain back this control, and to further now instrument and report how web pages are filtered since now the exact filters which are applied to web page is information which will be collectable by Google Chrome."
In the same way a company trying to determine what a user looks at on their computer screen is a privacy issue, this is too. Those filters should be private.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#454Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's largely proven by decades of experience at this point that you cannot make the average software user care about ideological concerns. Especially if you use terms like libre that don't makes any sense to people that haven't drunk the FOSS koolaid.
Ok, then it could be played a little harder, for example by introducing a (small) performance penality for visitors that use chrome.
Most sites and content are monetized by ads. Your suggestion is to slow down the browser that allows those ads to exist? What publisher would accept this?
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#455I switched to the Brave Browser a few months back (learned about it via Coinbase Earn). Its a great alternative to chrome with solid ad-blocking & I got $10 out of it.
Brave is built on Chromium just like Chrome. You are basically using Chrome.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#456Earlier 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…
I don't believe it's accurate to say it's "accessible by any user", the net effect of the policy will be (over a time span of months or years) to limit ad blocking only to the most technically capable users who understand how to do what you describe. Moreover, extensions that continue to use this behavior are required to adhere to manifest v2, and support for that manifest will likely eventually be deprecated. Chrome…
Just to clarify, what I am referring to is the claim that it’s limited to paying enterprise customers. I could be wrong but I believe that the enterprise policy bits are what matter, and as far as I know all of those are available in Chrome/Chromium today, via group policy systems. When I say “accessible” I am specifically referring to that bit, definitely not suggesting ordinary users should do that.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#457Slightly 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…
Firefox has several experience-breaking bugs for me. One where on websites that don't explicitly set their form background to white, which is the default on most browsers, Firefox paints them the color of the user's desktop theme, even when the theme is dark. Black text on black background. This bug had been known about for almost 20 years and is marked "won't fix" because the devs still assert that universal user th…
> Firefox paints them the color of the user's desktop theme
I don't think that's not the default. Are you sure you didn't change that? (It's configured under "Colors > Use system colours")
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#458Chromium / 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…
Chromium is still controlled by Google. Exhibit A: this ad-blocking API issue, where Google decisions will affect all Chromium browsers. (Sure, they can maintain patches against upstream, but over time that becomes non-viable.) If Google's behaviour concerns you, you need to use Firefox or Safari.
Chromium is much easier to compile once you take into account all the requirements.
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#459I wonder how many regular people even use adblockers or would care, enough to see a migration soon?
Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
#460From the author of uBlock on this: What we see are the public statements, for public consumption, they are designed to "sell" the changes to the wider public. What we do not see is what is being said in private meetings by officers who get to decide how to optimize the business. So we have to judge not by what is said for public consumption purpose, but by what in effect is being done, or what they plan to do. This i…
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…
Adblock plus have a committee that is supposed to be independent companies that they consult but they invested in some of them and made those people the head of each group so its not even independent
eyeo is a pure scam and they make 99% profit because they have no costs