Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

Post by approxim8ion » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

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2Gkashmiri wrote: post #38

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What... Is the appeal of brave ? I hear it has crypto and shit but why not install Firefox with ubo and be done with it? I feel the "cool" factor of brave is silly as they are just fueling chromium. Why don't these chromium forks base on Firefox instead and do some leg work with the benefit of helping the internet as a whole ? I hear someone said on hn a long time ago, building on ff is a pita. Well guess what, Firef…

There are several things. 1) There is an integrated ad blocker. It's very convenient because I don't have to worry about adblocking plugin is bought out and is compromised, I don't have to figure out if my uBlock is supposed to be "origin" or not, or if I should go for adGuard or something else. There is no risk of adblocking breaking because of the changes in plugin API. 2) Integrated optional ad network that by def…

Post by rejectfinite » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

glanzwulf wrote: post #43

I've always used Chrome but recently I've been trying out Brave and its been quite interesting. I still use chrome, but if they were to remove adblock i'd move for good.

Post by fregante » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

breezeTrowel wrote: post #280

This is particularly amusing considering Google's extreme lack of v3 documentation. Their samples and examples Github, for example, has only 2 examples, iirc. They also introduce a lot of silliness like the inability to nest content scripts within folders. Not to mention all the limitations of the Chrome browser. The continuous difference between console.log and console.dir. The former only shows you a very limited v…

    - complete inability to run code from the console into the content script context
    - content script errors are not shown in the console, you have to open a separate Browser Console
    - overall buggy dev tools (I don't remember anymore because I stopped using them a long time ago)

Post by imbnwa » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 5:00 PM UTC

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #111

smaddock wrote: post #19

As someone who is intimately familiar with the Chrome extensions internals and is not employed by a big tech company, I believe most of the changes seem like a step in the right direction.* I've been working towards implementing greater support for Chrome extensions in Electron which has involved reading and interacting with Chromium code [0]. - Using service workers instead of a hidden background webpage is more idi…

I remember some people saying Safari's extension changes and specific content blocker API would be a good thing because ad blockers would use less resources. The change happened, uBlock Origin broke for Safari and here we are several years later and the Safari ad blocker ecosystem is an absolute joke and most of it barely works or demands subscription fees (and the ones that do are certainly not worth paying for beca…

Post by asdff » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 5:02 PM UTC

teekert wrote: post #158

philipov wrote: post #151

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It did for me. I went back to firefox a year ago.

I never left. But then I again, I replaced everything Google with paid or self-hosted alternatives about 10 years ago. From what I hear, the Google ecosystem itself can be pain on Firefox. Although I check my old Gmail once every couple of weeks and I find it to work well enough. Maybe if you live in things like Google Docs, you start getting annoyed by accumulating papercuts? No idea..