Firefox is great, and the community "zen" fork is even nicer.
Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
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Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#42Can we update the title, should be, "Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of me using it"
Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#43On Chrome* Firefox is just fine.
Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#44A lot of people have been very vocal about this. I use uBlock Origin Lite and haven't noticed a difference between it and uBlock Origin. Am I missing something?
Origin Lite _can_ be beat by advertisers rotating the URLs they serve ads from. That doesn't mean advertisers are actively bypassing Lite, but they could
Yes, and this might take some years to catch on.
OTOH it's not out of the question that some open source non-extension Chrome mod emerges that will then block those kinds of ads. Brave is already shipping this anyway.
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#45Googler, opinions are my own.
My understanding is they're doing this in the name of security, though it obviously has some benefit to ads. this policy more closely aligns with what Safari does today. And it prevents add-ons from scraping information since they have to put in the block list ahead of time.
I've been using manifest v3 version of Adblock and it's worked just fine for me. But obviously is not perfect, but it fell into more towards security and privacy of the user against malicious extensions.
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#46Firefox is the only sane option. It’s not perfect but it’s better than the alternatives. Chromium forks are at the mercy of Google doing everything they can to stop ad blocking. Firefox forks are often maintain by just “some dude”. If they decide they don’t want to maintain it anymore, it’s done. If everyone switches to a fork and then Firefox goes away because nobody is using the browser anymore, it’s done.
And sadly, Firefox on iOS is the only browser that doesn't have a the possibility to run an Adblocker. Safari can run uBlock Origin. Brave had one built-in. Hell, even Edge has Adblock Plus. Does Mozilla have a contract with Google to not build one in as part of the search contract?
Firefox on Android supports ublock, not sure why it wouldn't support it on iOS
Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#47Will Brave, which is based in Chromium, still block ads? Since they are changing Chromium, I don't think so.
The ones Brave choose to block, sure. You're going to end up with the same problem eventually.
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#48Firefox is great, and the community "zen" fork is even nicer.
Maybe you could expand inline in your comment about what makes Zen “even nicer”
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#49It's obviously not perfect but DNS-level ad blockers like Pihole or Adguard Home still make a dramatic difference, so all is not lost.
Leaving Chrome is 1000x easier than maintaining that.
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#50I’m going home for a visit. Will make sure to switch the family over to Firefox and explain why. Just as all us nerds did back when Chrome came out and we switched our family to that.