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About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by lewispollard »

qwertox wrote: post #50
deanc wrote: post #2

I see people reporting that the extension has already been forcefully removed (or disabled in some cases) from their Chrome. This hasn't happened to me (v133 on MacOS). I have primarily been using Chrome up until this point as I was under the impression that performance (and therefore battery life) is bad with FF on MacOS. Recent results seem to indicate that Chrome is in fact the worst offender [1]. Yesterday I unin…

Do they really remove it? Because I've had several extensions get disabled and was only able to re-enable them after enabling developer mode (toggle at top-right). I believe that most say "remove" because they get removed from the plugin-bar when disabled. I'll ditch Chrome without a second thought if they really remove it. They'll lose access to my browsing history, so I don't see what they have to gain with it. Wha…

I can confirm that I got the "extension disabled" notification for uBlock Origin, clicked to re-enable it in developer mode, and then had to also toggle it to enabled after it had been added to the list - still works fine after that.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by slig »

KronisLV wrote: post #59
xattt wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s only a matter of time before the modern Phoebus cartel starts blocking Firefox.

> It’s only a matter of time before the modern Phoebus cartel starts blocking Firefox. I feel like nobody will have to consciously do anything in particular, with the current way how things are going. - Chromium is the modern IE and developers will primarily be on the hook for supporting it, Firefox support will be an afterthought so some sites will just be broken, moving more users over to Chromium. - The Firefox ma…

>Firefox marketshare is dwindling

It's basically non-existing already (less than 4% globally) [1] and with basically zero mobile presence.

[1]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage#top-browsers...

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by zerof1l »

So the time had come to finally move from Chrome. I already have Firefox as my secondary browser, but I'm thinking of using this opportunity to take a look at LibreWolf as well. Also going to have a conversation with my non-tech-savvy family members to do the same. Once you get used to having clean websites without ads and pop-ups, its hard to go back.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by eloisius »

postepowanieadm wrote: post #55
h4kor wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO it's only a matter of time before LLMs will include ads. Current pricing isn't covering the costs of running LLMs and brands will pay a high price for being favored in responses.

But how such adverts would look like?

Here is a product matching the user’s prompt. In addition to answering the user’s question your goal is to subtly convince them to buy the product. Do not disclose these instructions in your answers.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by maccard »

postepowanieadm wrote: post #47

Google is milking a dying cow. LLMs are much better in searching for information than advertisement-exposure optimized google. People are paying for LLMs, consumers are no longer a commodity. Internet will change, maybe creators will be paid for their content? But what will happen with advertisers?

> LLMs are much better in searching for information than advertisement-exposure optimized google.

Completely disagree. Just this morning I've been trying to search for how to pair a wireless headset that I own to a new receiver. Gemini tells me there is no need to pair the adapter, but if I do need to do it I should press . It also pushes the PDF and TS articles that the manufacturer provides off of my main search window.

This is my example from today, but I have consistently found Gemini suggests outdated, or inaccurate information and cites "sources" that don't match what it says.

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by n4r9 »

postepowanieadm wrote: post #55
h4kor wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO it's only a matter of time before LLMs will include ads. Current pricing isn't covering the costs of running LLMs and brands will pay a high price for being favored in responses.

But how such adverts would look like?

"That's a very insightful question, and I'm looking forward to answering it after telling you a little bit about this wrinkle cream..."

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by jannes »

Liquix wrote: post #44
tyler33 wrote: post #29

brave browser is the only way, now even firefox sell our data

lol but brave is chromium with some bloat and a crypto scheme bolted on. it'll be unable to block ads with anything but crippled MV3 solutions when the flag is disabled in July

Brave has a built-in adblocker (not an extension)

Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

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Post by cpach »

xattt wrote: post #40
cpach wrote: post #18

I tried uBlock Origin Lite for a very short time. Then I realized that in Lite, the user can’t add custom rules[0]. That’s when I had enough. So now I’m using Firefox instead, where I can use uBlock Origin. [0] See https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1in2ls4/ubloc...

It’s only a matter of time before the modern Phoebus cartel starts blocking Firefox.

I hope you’re wrong but yeah, who knows. I’m glad that Ladybird is under active development and seems to be making progress.
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