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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

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Post by rafram »

neves wrote: post #5
GeekyBear wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension" really doesn't tell a general audience what is happening here. No wonder it gained little notice.

The current title is a lot better.

You mean the title of this post? It's much worse, in my opinion - plenty of strong ad blockers run on MV3. Even the developer of uBlock Origin (Lite) seems to have conceded that the MV3 approach is less resource intensive and didn't require sacrificing any of the features that 99.9% of users use.

Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

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Post by charcircuit »

Cider9986 wrote: post #6
neves wrote: post #4

Will Brave, which is based in Chromium, still block ads? Since they are changing Chromium, I don't think so.

Pretty sure Brave shields isn't based on an extension API so it shouldn't be affected. Have people actually noticed worse performance from uBlock Origin lite? This article isn't nuanced enough. Ad blockers will continue to work.

I mostly use ublock origin light on my work laptop for YouTube and I've never seen an ad.

Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

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Post by wirybeige »

Cider9986 wrote: post #6
neves wrote: post #4

Will Brave, which is based in Chromium, still block ads? Since they are changing Chromium, I don't think so.

Pretty sure Brave shields isn't based on an extension API so it shouldn't be affected. Have people actually noticed worse performance from uBlock Origin lite? This article isn't nuanced enough. Ad blockers will continue to work.

I have noticed it to be slightly worse, mostly on "bad" sites. Just using Brave at this point though.

Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

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Post by everdrive »

Cider9986 wrote: post #6
neves wrote: post #4

Will Brave, which is based in Chromium, still block ads? Since they are changing Chromium, I don't think so.

Pretty sure Brave shields isn't based on an extension API so it shouldn't be affected. Have people actually noticed worse performance from uBlock Origin lite? This article isn't nuanced enough. Ad blockers will continue to work.

I'm still confused about what makes uBlock Origin Lite less powerful than uBlock Origin. I don't use it or Chrome in any case, but I would prefer to understand the difference.

Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

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Post by throwatdem12311 »

Firefox 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.

Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

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Post by muvlon »

xienze wrote: post #14

It's obviously not perfect but DNS-level ad blockers like Pihole or Adguard Home still make a dramatic difference, so all is not lost.

If Google ever decides to "close the door" on these too, all they need to do is make Chrome always use DoH instead of classic DNS.

Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

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Post by esskay »

ramijames wrote: post #8

Use Firefox. It's an excellent browser and needs your support.

Just a shame its a tiny bit slower than chromium based browsers still (the ui, not the web page rendering), and you dont have to take my word for it, a web search for something like 'firefox sluggish compared to chrome' will back this up too as I've tried switching multiple times but always end up back on a chromium variant because the firefox ui just doesn't feel like an upgrade.

Personally I've just given up trying with firefox and I now put up with brave - its certainly not perfect but at least the ad blocker isnt about to break.

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