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Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

scarface74 wrote: post #699
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #695

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... That's how computers work, yes. If you have a way to make a VPN that doesn't see its own traffic, I'm all ears. In the meantime, I trust a VPN more than my ISP.

What gives you more trust in your VPN provider than your ISP? Did you also trust Onavo’s VPN back in the day?

My ISP has told people they're tracking users, and can get away with it because there's effectively no competition. The bar is low.

I am, indeed, necessarily careful about VPN providers.

Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by matwood »

petjuh wrote: post #571
toddwprice wrote: post #449

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I came back to Firefox a while back - maybe a year or two? - and have never regretted it. It's a fast, modern, respectful browser. Maintained by a non-profit. I do all my front-end dev work in Firefox, and also test in Chrome. Never had a problem. Come on back folks!

I switched to Chrome the same day the beta was released mostly because of the speed. Nowadays I stay because I keep my passwords synced over my Google Account and I'm not sure if Firefox works with that.

The way I have switched password managers is to run both for awhile. Overtime you move the ones you need. Eventually if you leave a couple behind you can always reset them in the new browser/manager. It's not as big of a pain as it looks going in.

Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by Destiner »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #627
starik36 wrote: post #480

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My experience exactly. The dev tools have caught up to chrome and in some ways surpassed it.

Chrome's audit (Google Lighthouse) is good.

If your app is deployed (has public url), you can use https://web.dev/measure, which I believe is the same thing.

Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by scarface74 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #701
scarface74 wrote: post #699

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What gives you more trust in your VPN provider than your ISP? Did you also trust Onavo’s VPN back in the day?

My ISP has told people they're tracking users , and can get away with it because there's effectively no competition. The bar is low. I am, indeed, necessarily careful about VPN providers.

Have you personally audited your VPN provider? Or did you go by a pinky promise that they would track you and sell your data?

On a practical note, which VPN provider can reliably not reduce the speed of my gigabit up/down connection?

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Post by pps »

jasonhansel wrote: post #294
phiresky wrote: post #39

From the author of uBlock on this: What we see are the public statements, for public consumption, they are designed to "sell" the changes to the wider public. What we do not see is what is being said in private meetings by officers who get to decide how to optimize the business. So we have to judge not by what is said for public consumption purpose, but by what in effect is being done, or what they plan to do. This i…

uBlock should really just instruct users to "switch to firefox for a fast, up-to-date ad-blocking experience"

How about Vivaldi? Or Opera with built-in ad-blocker (which I'm currently using and it works great, at least with uBlock Origin installed too)? Unfortunately I can't use Firefox on my system ( https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a42xei/state_of_fi... nothing changed for years with these problems and I believe it will unfortunately stay that way)

Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by neilv »

This sounds like a wonderful gift from Google, to Mozilla.

As you're deciding what browser to move to, consider using two browsers: Firefox for any sites you need to log into or otherwise identify yourself, and Tor Browser for everything else. I've been trying this a while, and it works pretty well.

Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by bad_user »

For those of you not familiar with what is being proposed ...

Chrome engineers want to replace the ability to block any request with a standardized ad-block functionality based on a list of provided rules and inspired by Safari. In other words the ad-blocking functionality becomes built-in.

However this facility excludes dynamic capabilities that plugins like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger need.

Also I’m speaking with first hand experience in this field: the ad-blocking functionality provided but Safari sucks and can be easily fooled. That there are publishers that don’t implement anti-ad-blocking measures, that’s only because they either don’t have the resources or because they don’t want to piss off users.

And at this point uBlock Origin is by far the most aggressive extension out of the popular ones and the nightmare of advertisers, not only because of its capabilities, but also because it doesn’t have a commercial entity behind it.

It is no accident that Google is hitting these extensions.

Switch to Firefox folks. The grass over here really is greener ;-)

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