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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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Watch the already limited traffic I send to Google servers go even lower. I am not entangled in their mess. None of the faangs can touch me because I wasn't stupid enough to put my entire digital life in the hands of a company. I'm looking ten or more years in the future, though. By that time, the Firefox/Chrome duopoly will be broken by alternatives that don't compromise between the user and business models.

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

#52
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I like using Chrome and even went back to it after trying FF and Brave 2-3 years ago. But this would really make me look for alternatives, even if those are inferior. It's not even about Youtube. I pay for Youtube Premium. But not being able to block third party cookies would be a deal breaker.

majority of the people will still use Chrome even if Google literally delists all blockers from the planet. One major reason being "browser migration". The guys on HN crying foul on most of these articles are a vocal minority. This s Google's version of "corner the market and raise the prices". They ll lost 2-5% market share at max

There's an evangelist effect - Apple benefited from it a lot way back when (less so now). Where techies lead, others tend to follow. That 2-5% might be the first few pebbles in the avalanche.

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

#53
The war against general-purpose computing is but one front in the class war.

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

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post #5

I like using Chrome and even went back to it after trying FF and Brave 2-3 years ago. But this would really make me look for alternatives, even if those are inferior. It's not even about Youtube. I pay for Youtube Premium. But not being able to block third party cookies would be a deal breaker.

So switch then instead of just talking about it. It's not a big deal, it takes like 1 minute, and no one can seriously tell me you have a significantly different browser experience on Chrome vs FF.

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

#55

I like Firefox a lot (with Privacy Badger and uBlock) but sometimes the browser slows to a crawl. New tabs are slow to open, takes way too long to select and activate a text input field, and so on. A restart fixes this, but it's still annoying. I think I might go back to Safari. I like the way it looks and it feels snappier all the way around.

I've reported a similar issue on mac where it gets slower over time [1]. I hope it gets fixed at some point.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799681

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

#58

Watch the already limited traffic I send to Google servers go even lower. I am not entangled in their mess. None of the faangs can touch me because I wasn't stupid enough to put my entire digital life in the hands of a company. I'm looking ten or more years in the future, though. By that time, the Firefox/Chrome duopoly will be broken by alternatives that don't compromise between the user and business models.

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

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In a few years: LLM: Hi! Me: Please develop a browser that is full HTML, etc, etc compliant LLM: No problem... download the source here. Me: Thank you, but could you please optimize it for speed? LLM: No problem, done. Me: I have only 5 more minutes, could you please write a version in Rust, and two more in Go and C++? Ah, and support Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS. Don't forget to use the native WebView in i…

This would only work if the chromium source was included in the training set.

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

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In a few years: LLM: Hi! Me: Please develop a browser that is full HTML, etc, etc compliant LLM: No problem... download the source here. Me: Thank you, but could you please optimize it for speed? LLM: No problem, done. Me: I have only 5 more minutes, could you please write a version in Rust, and two more in Go and C++? Ah, and support Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS. Don't forget to use the native WebView in i…

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