They are blocking Ad-blockers and improving Ads. Blocking Ads that are scam like popups and such so ux should be good with content and Ads side by side.
It's actually Google wants to rule by blocking other platforms that provide Ads.
Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
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Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
#542The design doc — the part quoted in the note linked here even — explicitly notes that it will probably be required to retain some degree of the existing functionality slated for eventually removal until the new API and other replacements cover all use cases; the response linked here appears to (not improperly, in the context of making a case for why much of the functionality is needed) ignoring that and treating the…
The uBlock maintainer specifically says that uBlock Origin and uMatrix use a different matching algorithm than the declarativeNetRequest. The title isn't at all hyperbolic. You don't deprecate such important functionality without laying out a full plan for replacement. Unless there is no such plan and in reality you want to screw uBlock Origin, which I might say is the most aggressive ad blocker available, and isn't…
Oh, the Google fanboys. “Didn’t you read the article? This is purely for privacy reasons.” Nevermind that this makes it harder to actually keep your privacy. Nevermind that this is exactly what people warned would happen in a browser monoculture controlled by an ad company. That’s just a coincidence. It must be, because Google are the good guys, am I right?
Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
#543Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
#544Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not just use Firefox?
My liking one thing about Firefox needn't entail my wanting to use the whole browser.
There's plenty to like about Firefox, like the Awesome Bar, has better bookmarking, is able to handle a huge number of tabs, has the "Multi-Account Containers" extension (with its offspring, e.g. "Facebook Container"), or the "Tree Style Tab" extension, just to name a few.
Also that it's not Chrome or based on Chromium is reason alone to like Firefox, because we need diversity for healthy web standards. That Chromium is open source is a red herring and open standards are more important.
I know developers have been preferring Chrome and for good reasons, but I've switched back to Firefox for the last 3 years and personally I find it hard to use Chrome these days, because Firefox has a better UI.
The only downside is that Chrome's dev tools still has some capabilities that Firefox lacks, but Firefox has been improving a lot, as you have seen.
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When Google takes the approach you want, they are vilified for "letting third parties access your data" - as in the Gmail "scandal" a few months ago. If you let users do whatever they want, they will often shoot themselves in the foot. It's a tough balance.
Sorry for being behind in the news. What's this Gmail "scandal" you quote from a few months ago?
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Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
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Firefox does not stack tabs like Chrome does and does not load all the restored session tabs at once either. Aren't these dumb design decisions enough to switch to a product where people actually think about how it's going to be used?
> does not load all the restored session tabs at once either As someone who always has too many tabs open, I consider this a plus. I do however think you can disable this in about:config : browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand
also, if you use Autodiscard plugin, you will find that FF use less RAM and Ru. more faster. Essentially discard and suspend tabs that you aren't using.
Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
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Most young devs use a mac. And from what I understand Firefox is slow on macOS.
It's still slower than other platforms but it's much faster than it used to be. I've been using Firefox exclusively on OS X / macOS for a year. The only problem I've seen is that it sometimes uses more CPU than is reasonable, which often appears to be due to Gmail's terrible implementation.
Since they made the big changes and become faster, I found Firefox faster that Chrome, except for Google pages.
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What if someone would create a pull request to implement unlock origin natively inside chromium, instead of an extension. If such a PR met all technical criteria, would Chromium project accept it?
Brave browser may be what you are looking for.
Isn't it also based on Chromium?
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Firefox with uMatrix will smoke Chrome without it, in nearly any real world use-case.
This is an excellent point. There is absolutely no way a browser which loads and executes ad-loading and tracking script can be possibly be faster than one that doesn't.
It's the same reason why Firefox for Android it's faster that Chrome android
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#550Earlier quoted context omitted.
My liking one thing about Firefox needn't entail my wanting to use the whole browser.
There's plenty to like about Firefox, like the Awesome Bar, has better bookmarking, is able to handle a huge number of tabs, has the "Multi-Account Containers" extension (with its offspring, e.g. "Facebook Container"), or the "Tree Style Tab" extension, just to name a few. Also that it's not Chrome or based on Chromium is reason alone to like Firefox, because we need diversity for healthy web standards. That Chromium…
...and that's why I don't take part in the discussion about browsers. It's gotten political. You advertise shit to me, when I didn't ask you to.
I tried Firefox for a month. I didn't like it. I went back to a Chromium fork.
Now go away.