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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 linza »

flir wrote: post #52
vivzkestrel wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You still need a tangible reason for switching. Maybe we can push, but Firefox would need to sustain the momentum and I don't see them doing it.

My pet peeves: sync and app mode. I don't want to switch at the moment, tried many times, but it doesn't stick for me. If i ask my my aunt to do that, and she dislikes it, she won't do it again and won't trust me anymore on top of that.

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

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pier25 wrote: 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.

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

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Post by fbdab103 »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #3

Most of the Internet is almost unusable without ad blockers. I suspect this will be good for Firefox.

It is truly unbelievable how bad it has become. Even informational articles might only have a paragraph of text between ads. Plus, the frequent animations/pop-unders/whatever.

Everyone can decry the loss of the "small web" as much as they want, but the cram-ads-into-every-pixel dystopia means why should anyone bother? Even big brands are not immune to this behavior. At least if someone stays on the Instagram/Reddit/Tiktok experience, the ads are a consistent frequency and intrusiveness.

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

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Post by sharps1 »

blueridge wrote: post #48

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.

Try installing the auto tab discard addon (It is a recommended addon so it gets checked by Firefox). I’ve noticed certain tabs may slow FF down if they aren’t unloaded in the background.

I had FF slow to a crawl and when I checked it was using 7gb’s of ram. Turns out a site I had turned off uBO in had opened up a sub frame that was blasting ads. So it is interesting to try to see what is going on with about:processes.

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

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blueridge wrote: post #48

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.

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

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[deleted] wrote: post #62
pier25 wrote: 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.

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

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Post by smarkov »

blueridge wrote: post #48

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.

Safari is at a disadvantage - it's behind a walled garden and people outside of that garden don't develop or test for it. Sure, that's a trivial issue for a company but not for small team or single person projects.

Not to mention that it feels like Safari is only fast because it does its own thing and doesn't strictly follow the spec. I've often run into CSS specific issues with it when making slightly more complicated animations.

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