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But Brave is based on Chrome, so won't it be affected the same way? And same for Arc?
Arc are planning on building a built in adblocker https://x.com/joshm/status/1728926780600508716
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Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.
IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.
All browsers break sites. In the past few months we've had our stuff broken due to bugs in Safari, Chromium and even Firefox.
But the situation is nothing like when IE was alive. Webdevelopment is much more pleasant now.
If I had to pick a black sheep now, I would say it's Safari, simply because the updates are tied in with OS updates. That's a shame.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#63This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. Is the go-to now just 'install firefox'?
i would always tell them to install firefox. this is mostly for developers and tech oriented people who need to keep chrome around
If I need to keep Chrome around for development, I'm not using extensions on it, and I'm only visiting the sites I'm developing.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#64First recommendation would be a pihole running anywhere you can run it, but if you don't want to or can't do that, you can use Steven Black's ad list to create a hosts file to DNS sink ad/bad networks locally: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
First recommendation would be Firefox.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
#65First recommendation would be a pihole running anywhere you can run it, but if you don't want to or can't do that, you can use Steven Black's ad list to create a hosts file to DNS sink ad/bad networks locally: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Isn't DNS-level blocking strictly less capable than even the nerfed Manifest V3 filtering API? V3 can still block at a more granular level than nuking entire hostnames AFAIK, even if it's not as granular as V2.
Specifically, the ability to block specific URL patterns in addition to just hostnames.
DNS blocking gets you 90% of the way there, though. (And the only way to block your smart fridge from phoning home)
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#68everyone should just have a pihole
Pi-hole and other DNS-based ad blockers are a lot worse than even Manifest v3 ad blockers, so they aren't any alternative.
Re: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
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#70Finally some news that makes me think the Firefox has a glimmer of hope left.
Every app there are gets worse and worse -- aka Doctorow's enshittification
So people will just take the sudden deluge of ads in stride and move on. Chances of this moving people to Firefox is slim.