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PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by howinteresting »

Flankk wrote: post #2

Are people really that adamant about blocking ads on the web? I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to remove the primary source of revenue for content creators. At the most it amounts to a very mild annoyance and ads also help small businesses to grow. Edit: I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to the points I made rather than simply complain about why they don't like ads.

Any semi-serious security posture must involve blocking ads. The incentives in the adtech industry mean that the security issues with ads can never be fixed.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

Flankk wrote: post #2

Are people really that adamant about blocking ads on the web? I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to remove the primary source of revenue for content creators. At the most it amounts to a very mild annoyance and ads also help small businesses to grow. Edit: I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to the points I made rather than simply complain about why they don't like ads.

To put it as politely as I possibly can: advertisers can suck my ass.

They could have been good citizens, but they've proven time and time again they'd rather be the scum of the goddamned earth and use every annoying and malicious trick in the book to fool you into paying attention to their bullshit for the second or two it takes to make their shit go away instead. Not to mention all the overhead of their shit making everything fucking slow as hell.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by jqpabc123 »

ehutch79 wrote: post #9
jqpabc123 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By themselves, ads aren't the real problem --- personalized ads are the problem. The idea that they have to profile and track your every move all over the internet in order to try and sell you stuff you don't really want or need. Example: If I go to a pet supply web site, an ad for dog food is perfectly understandable --- maybe even welcomed. But just because I was profiled visiting and maybe even buying, I shouldn't…

No, ads are a problem. when a sprint ad walks across your browser and starts talking while in front of content, that was it for me.

That is annoying ... but it could be much more detrimental than annoying if it is also reporting back to a global tracking network that sells your profile to be used against you by a multitude of other actors.

The difference here is between you watching ads versus ads watching you.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by mcny »

beervirus wrote: post #6

Color me shocked. Why does anyone use Chrome anymore? Firefox is better in every way, and it isn’t tied to the biggest data harvester the world has ever known.

I think people just don't know what they don't know. Firefox containers is awesome. I can type amazon.com and it will automatically open in my shopping container (after some configuration). I can type messenger.com and it opens in Facebook container out of the box. We even have container sync now so you can sync these settings across browsers.

Mozilla isn't perfect though. I don't understand the decision to get rid of lockwise, my default password manager on iPhone and Android.

» https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29321796

I don't get why they removed FTP browsing either

» https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27896541

Oh and is the source code for Pocket's server infrastructure available publicly as was promised when pocket was integrated into Firefox?

Don't get me wrong. I love Firefox. I just think we have a lot of room for improvement.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by RealityVoid »

jqpabc123 wrote: post #5
Flankk wrote: post #2

Are people really that adamant about blocking ads on the web? I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to remove the primary source of revenue for content creators. At the most it amounts to a very mild annoyance and ads also help small businesses to grow. Edit: I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to the points I made rather than simply complain about why they don't like ads.

By themselves, ads aren't the real problem --- personalized ads are the problem. The idea that they have to profile and track your every move all over the internet in order to try and sell you stuff you don't really want or need. Example: If I go to a pet supply web site, an ad for dog food is perfectly understandable --- maybe even welcomed. But just because I was profiled visiting and maybe even buying, I shouldn't…

I don't care if they have my data. My data is useless to me. Have it. I don't even think it's worth that much in the first place. I care that they make the web a crappy, unusable, annoying place. They make the browsing experience less secure. They slow down the webpages and eat bandwidth. They look ugly. It' my goddamn pc, i very well can choose what to run on it.

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by smokey_circles »

Flankk wrote: post #2

Are people really that adamant about blocking ads on the web? I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to remove the primary source of revenue for content creators. At the most it amounts to a very mild annoyance and ads also help small businesses to grow. Edit: I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to the points I made rather than simply complain about why they don't like ads.

there's nothing mild about many online ads. pages load faster and I don't use as much bandwidth. YouTube et al are ok, not so much other pages

Re: PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

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Post by masklinn »

jqpabc123 wrote: post #5
Flankk wrote: post #2

Are people really that adamant about blocking ads on the web? I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to remove the primary source of revenue for content creators. At the most it amounts to a very mild annoyance and ads also help small businesses to grow. Edit: I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to the points I made rather than simply complain about why they don't like ads.

By themselves, ads aren't the real problem --- personalized ads are the problem. The idea that they have to profile and track your every move all over the internet in order to try and sell you stuff you don't really want or need. Example: If I go to a pet supply web site, an ad for dog food is perfectly understandable --- maybe even welcomed. But just because I was profiled visiting and maybe even buying, I shouldn't…

> By themselves, ads aren't the real problem --- personalized ads are the problem.

I don't even care about that, what gets my goat is that ads pileup significantly slow down pages and increase energy consumption; and sites still get plastered to unreadability.

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