Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Post by sujaldev » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC

bayesianbot wrote: post #281

polairscience wrote: post #40

And I won't even notice. Firefox is probably the most divisive topic on this website. Mozilla gets ripped to shreds any time they're discussed, but they keep the open internet alive. I don't see how any self-respecting Hacker could choose anything else. I'm a big fan of critique, critiquing the scaffolding of our lives is the best thing we can do. That said...... we have nearly lost the browser wars and if we do it w…

Once again I have to let people know about glide[0], fork of Firefox. I know a lot of people here like keyboard-driven and scriptable software, and glide shines at both. Keyboard control in it is so so much better than the extensions for Chrome or Firefox, and I'm quite happy how easily the API allows me do my own customizations. (as an example when I open HN in new tab with my bind ,sn , if I already have HN front p…

Post by drdexebtjl » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #377

drdexebtjl wrote: post #293

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A lot of sites serve their ads from the same domains as their actual content nowadays. So if you really don't want to ever see ads again, you need something at the application layer.

"A lot of sites serve their ads from the same domains as their actual content nowadays." What are some examples I observe the contrary among the sites submitted to HN Without access to other subdomains and other domains plus a Javascript interpreter, the ads and tracking don't work

Post by frollogaston » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

water-data-dude wrote: post #141

polairscience wrote: post #40

And I won't even notice. Firefox is probably the most divisive topic on this website. Mozilla gets ripped to shreds any time they're discussed, but they keep the open internet alive. I don't see how any self-respecting Hacker could choose anything else. I'm a big fan of critique, critiquing the scaffolding of our lives is the best thing we can do. That said...... we have nearly lost the browser wars and if we do it w…

I'm a big fan of WaterFox! I switched when Firefox decided to add a ton of AI crap without providing a "turn this crap off" button (you could force it, but I don't want to fight my tools). Really good experience, been recommending it to all my friends. Librewolf is also good, and I use that on one of my other machines. I like Waterfox a bit more, but that's probably just personal taste. Both are solid and both cut th…

Post by frollogaston » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

troyvit wrote: post #238

tapoxi wrote: post #120

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Firefox already lost the browser wars. It's about 2%. Saying "you can use uBlock Origin instead of uBlock Origin Lite!" won't change this.

Apple market share (whether by hardware or operating system) was that low for awhile there and by some estimates OSX even dipped down to 2.29%: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/ And that doesn't even count the dark years of OS9 in the '90s. Have they lost the operating system wars?

Post by pluralmonad » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

MrDrMcCoy wrote: post #359

pluralmonad wrote: post #228

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Is it time to run every document we download through a sandboxed local LLM to clean it up on the fly? How long then before the ad tech companies start prompt injecting?

What a strange leap. There's rather a lot we can do to keep regular adblocking going and we don't have to just accept what Google deigns to give us. Wasting a bunch of GPU power to have an LLM hallucinate which parts of a page to delete hardly seems like a solution to me.