Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
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Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#2It's time for mass-migration to Firefox. Only losing users is going to tell Google that this is a horrible solution to enforce.
Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#3It's time for mass-migration to Firefox. Only losing users is going to tell Google that this is a horrible solution to enforce.
The only browser that's been losing users for years is Firefox. That already tells Google all they need to know. (It also tells Mozilla what they need to know; pity they are deaf.)
Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#4It's time for mass-migration to Firefox. Only losing users is going to tell Google that this is a horrible solution to enforce.
The only browser that's been losing users for years is Firefox. That already tells Google all they need to know. (It also tells Mozilla what they need to know; pity they are deaf.)
Mozilla annoys me. Truly it does. However, it's the organisation.
Firefox as a browser, especially dev tools, seems better in every day use than Chrome does. I am really not sure why they keep losing users. I do remember being massive performance issues in the past, but that's really not the case today (at least in my experience)
Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#5It's time for mass-migration to Firefox. Only losing users is going to tell Google that this is a horrible solution to enforce.
Is v3 an horrible solution or the deprecation of v2 in 2023?
I ported one of my extensions to v3 and while the process was not completely trivial it did not took more than a few hours, in my opinion the change is worth it this makes extensions more secure.
As far as I know Firefox is also moving to v3, maybe not enforcing it for now, but they will probably deprecate v2 at some point.
Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#6Many years ago I published a small extension for common functions I use on daily basis(hashing, url encoding and decoding) for quick access as opposed to either opening a random site or some scripting language. If my memory is correct, I can kiss it goodbye(no idea where or even if I have a copy of the source code). Oh well... As for ad-blockers, funny enough I used to be firmly against them until not that long ago - many sites and blogs rely on ads as a source of revenue so in order to support them I was putting up with them. But then youtube pushed me waaaaaay too far and I started using Brave so... It's your fault Google,
Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#7It's time for mass-migration to Firefox. Only losing users is going to tell Google that this is a horrible solution to enforce.
Is v3 an horrible solution or the deprecation of v2 in 2023? I ported one of my extensions to v3 and while the process was not completely trivial it did not took more than a few hours, in my opinion the change is worth it this makes extensions more secure. As far as I know Firefox is also moving to v3, maybe not enforcing it for now, but they will probably deprecate v2 at some point.
An extension API that can't implement ad-blockers properly is an extension API that is broken by design. So yes, it's a horrible solution.
Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only browser that's been losing users for years is Firefox. That already tells Google all they need to know. (It also tells Mozilla what they need to know; pity they are deaf.)
Mozilla annoys me. Truly it does. However, it's the organisation. Firefox as a browser, especially dev tools, seems better in every day use than Chrome does. I am really not sure why they keep losing users. I do remember being massive performance issues in the past, but that's really not the case today (at least in my experience)
They just can't compete with Google and their massive marketing budget and shady bait & switch business practices.
Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only browser that's been losing users for years is Firefox. That already tells Google all they need to know. (It also tells Mozilla what they need to know; pity they are deaf.)
Mozilla annoys me. Truly it does. However, it's the organisation. Firefox as a browser, especially dev tools, seems better in every day use than Chrome does. I am really not sure why they keep losing users. I do remember being massive performance issues in the past, but that's really not the case today (at least in my experience)
>I am really not sure why they keep losing users.
Because, number one, they keep constantly making radical UI/UX changes that frustrate and alienate their long term users who would rather they keep the "older look" which they got used to and works just fine for them, and number two, most websites are lazy so their devs only optimize for Chrome, even going the extra mile to explicitly state that "For best experience use Chrome"
Edit: changes in tone and corrections after getting off the bus
Re: Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
#10It's time for mass-migration to Firefox. Only losing users is going to tell Google that this is a horrible solution to enforce.
It's time for antitrust breakup of Google.
America's top search engine and America's top internet ads company has the America's top browser and pays to be the default search engine for America's top cell phone?