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Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#21

On Mac: defaults write com.google.Chrome ExtensionManifestV2Availability -integer 2 You can keep V2 until June2025

While that's useful, it also seems a bit like "For the next month, relatives will be visiting so my spouse won't be able to beat me."

When there's no good reason to believe the other party will actually change their ultimate goals, it's better to cut your losses and switch sooner.

Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#22
post #4

Hopefully this means people return to FireFox, which I'm surprised many developers abandoned.

When the news broke again of this change, I made yet another attempt to return to Firefox. Fortunately, I never returned. They’ve improved quite a bit in terms of resource usage and functionality, and I’m not looking back.

Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#25
post #21

On Mac: defaults write com.google.Chrome ExtensionManifestV2Availability -integer 2 You can keep V2 until June2025

While that's useful, it also seems a bit like "For the next month, relatives will be visiting so my spouse won't be able to beat me." When there's no good reason to believe the other party will actually change their ultimate goals, it's better to cut your losses and switch sooner.

It gives you a year of runway to move to another browser

Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#26
post #4

Hopefully this means people return to FireFox, which I'm surprised many developers abandoned.

I certainly will switch to Firefox (which I already use on my phone) if ad blocking stops working in Chrome. I'm really only on Chrome out of inertia - the developer tools in Firefox is just different enough that I haven't put in enough time to learn my way around it.

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Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#27
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is made by a for profit company.

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization.

The vast majority of people working on Firefox are employees of the Mozilla Corporation which is a for profit subsidiary of the Foundation.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations...

Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#28
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While that's useful, it also seems a bit like "For the next month, relatives will be visiting so my spouse won't be able to beat me." When there's no good reason to believe the other party will actually change their ultimate goals, it's better to cut your losses and switch sooner.

It gives you a year of runway to move to another browser

If you need a year of runway, you're not really planning to move. :p

Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization.

The vast majority of people working on Firefox are employees of the Mozilla Corporation which is a for profit subsidiary of the Foundation. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations...

the foundation owns the corporation and can dissolve it if it turns evil. There's no similar public-good outfit that can dissolve Google.
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