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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

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Post by seba_dos1 »

xnx wrote: post #5

Despite all the links in the article, I didn't see one to the official announcement which contains useful information: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi... "Based on input from the extension community, we also increased the number of rulesets for declarativeNetRequest, allowing extensions to bundle up to 330,000 static rules and dynamically add a further 30,000."

The newsreel attempts to present Stalin as a good man: some children run up to him and call out "Uncle Joseph, give us some candy!". Stalin replies: "Fuck off."

The message then pops up: "He could have killed them!"

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

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Post by paulryanrogers »

reustle wrote: post #22
b3ing wrote: 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.

So you returned to Firefox and stayed? I.e. did not return back to Chrome?

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

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Post by grounder »

ppetty wrote: post #7

Regarding links in the article, it’s definitely lacking (as mentioned links like this: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi... ) but also why don’t articles like this offer a consistent set of alternate browsers like Firefox, Safari & all the Chromium derivatives (Brave, DuckDuckGo & Arc) that include ad blockers? I get that there’s a difference between those & the free choice to pick your ad…

I use Vivaldi and love it. I hope their built-in ad-blocking continues to work even if the uBlock Origin extension does not.

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

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Post by cqqxo4zV46cp »

Terr_ wrote: post #21
webdestroya wrote: post #2

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.

I’ve gotta imagine that you could’ve found an analogy that didn’t compare domestic abuse with some nerd not being able to use their favourite browser extension.

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

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Post by metadat »

smallerfish wrote: post #15
b3ing wrote: 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.

The dev tools in Firefox are actually nicer in some cases..

-> Boom, console open inspecting the element under the cusrsor.

Chrome requires more clicks.

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