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Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

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Re: Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

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Post by RedShift1 »

otikik wrote: post #86
mrastro wrote: post #47

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"Firefox/Chrome duopoly"? You're forgetting Safari; they have larger market share than Firefox.

Firefox works very well on iPhone, by the way. It’s my daily browser there.

But it uses the Safari engine

Re: Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

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Post by sandworm101 »

Ok. Goodbye chrome. I will be switching to whatever privacy-focused browser allows me to keep not seeing ads.

I do wonder how long it will be before we see browser browsers, software that takes a browser instance and sanitizes it. Maybe chrome will continue as a daemon allowed to run inside a sandbox within a browser's browser that actually displays content to a human.

Re: Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

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Post by bonzini »

jacooper wrote: post #155
Justsignedup wrote: post #78

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which hopefully means Brave and friends will switch to being based on Firefox instead. Could lead to some positives. Alternatively it could be that all alt browser companies will maintain one chromium fork that preserves manifest v2. Or V3 but with a lot more rules.

Brave isn't affected by this anyway, brave shields don't depend on the extension API. Also Gecko is just a factually worse engine, that's why they didn't use it.

Gecko is not worse, though it used to be worse before Electrolysis landed. It's just that Mozilla Corp is mostly kept alive by Google so might as well remove the indirection and go straight to the browser that Google maintains

Re: Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

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Post by cpeterso »

> Nevertheless, Firefox said it will adopt Manifest V3 in the interest of cross-browser compatibility.

The article makes it sound like Firefox will have the same ad blocker limitations as Chrome. The article fails to mention that Mozilla is implementing MV3 APIs in Firefox, but not removing the MV2 APIs like Chrome is:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...

Re: Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

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Post by Forgeties79 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #159
Forgeties79 wrote: post #150

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My guess is less variety on browsers than routers but no clue with OS’s.

Also, most consumers don't know how to configure their router. Most can figure out how to install an ad blocker.

Yeah, especially since ones like unlock origin are simple browser extensions that anyone can install in a few seconds. Hell it’s so simple I hesitate to even describe it as “installing”

Re: Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

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Post by beebeepka »

loeg wrote: post #137
DandyDev wrote: post #127

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I often read these kinds of comments on HN and I don’t understand them. I’m using FF on MacOS and it feels like exactly the same experience I used to have on Chrome. Except that I like multi account containers better than Chrome profiles. I would love for HN commenters to share a recording in which they show this “buggyness”

I’m on Linux. Attempting to drag a tab to a new window doesn’t work and permanently breaks the “x” button to close tabs (until a restart).

Too bad your lies have been upvoted. I am also on Linux - had to boot it up just to make sure I am not spreading bs - and what do you know, dragging tabs between windows works just fine, like it always has.
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