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ansiz ,

I wonder if the DoJ actually does split up Google if separating Chrome would make any difference with behavior like this?

redditReallySucks ,
@redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Chrome on its own does not bring ans revenue. It would then require donations

Liz ,

I wonder if we could force a world where browsers are purely donation supported.

DarkThoughts ,

Chrome is used to get a tighter grip on the www and form it to Google's vision (one that is very anti consumer). If Chrome dies, it would be a net benefit for all.

Tired8281 ,

I wonder if we trained an AI on the entire corpus of articles about how Google is gonna kill adblocking, if we could keep these articles going after most people switch uneventfully over to Lite.

Teknikal ,
@Teknikal@eviltoast.org avatar

I’ve used Librewolf since the first time Google announced these kinda plans I’m thinking it must be at least 3 years now.

Theres tons of options Librewolf is overkill to be honest Firefox would be fine.

catloaf ,

This headline is premature. They haven’t pulled the plug yet. I still have Chrome installed, fully updated, and all the extensions are still there.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

and also ublock origin lite is still in the app store and works fine.

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

I glanced at it and from a quick look I didn’t see any way of adding custom blocklists.

kirk781 ,
@kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

uBlock Origin Lite is a Manifest v3 compatible extension and was intended to be the successor of uBlock Origin on Chromium based browsers.

However, it is not at feature parity(and will likely never be due to restrictions in Manifest v3). One restriction is no element picking on websites and then adding them to custom filters.

Czeron ,
@Czeron@lemmy.world avatar

Which is pretty crazy because I believe that’s about to be a built-in feature of a new Safari update.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

but for 90% of people, it’ll be fine

quissberry ,

Look like I need to convince my dad to switch now

Contravariant ,

Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.

capital ,

Would he notice if you just installed Firefox and changed the icon to Chrome?

Gestrid ,

The headline is a bit overdramatic. Google hasn’t pulled uBlock Origin off its extension webstore. Rather, it’s switching from Manifest v2 to Manifest v3, which won’t support features the current version of uBlock Origin needs to work. We’ve known this was in the process of happening for months. It’s a good reminder of what’s coming eventually (namely, the fact v2 extensions will be entirely disabled by Chrome soon), but this is nothing new.

thetreesaysbark ,

Do you know if this is at the chrome or chromium level?

TheGrandNagus ,

Chromium. However other chromium browser’s have said they’ll either patch it to keep manifest V2 compatibility, or they won’t but you can still use their inbuilt ad-blocking.

JenIsBringingTheDrugs ,

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TheBigBrother ,

I’m using brave so who cares…

Potatisen ,

Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?

Also, it’s chromium so… You’re getting V3 eventually.

TheBigBrother , (edited )

I have years using it and I have never been crypto scammed for it, about the V3 I truly don’t know apparently you will still be able to turn on some V2 extensions like ublock origin but I didn’t see the point of it if the browser include a good adblocker anyway.

Engywuck , (edited )

Same. The adblocker in Brave is great, its been ages since I ditched uBo and I’ve still to see a single ad. Built-in adblockers are good, because Google has no power there. Firefox, instead, its still a thing exclusively because of uBO i.e., the work of an external, unpaid developer. The say uBO disappears, is the day FF dies. Mozilla is so busy wasting time and money on unrelated stuff and huge CEO paychechs that they have had no the time to add and inbuilt advlocker to FF, which instead has useless crap such as Pockets and an opt-out ad-measurement tool which nobody asked for.

Ilandar ,

Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?

Revealed by who? Where? Brave definitely has some unsavoury connections to cryptocurrency but calling the entire project “just a big crypto scam” sounds like a massive exaggeration of the problem.

nokturne213 ,

Brave was found to be injecting their affiliate links for crypto.

blog.drhack.net/brave-browser-injecting-crypto-re…

theverge.com/…/brave-browser-affiliate-links-cryp…

cpomagazine.com/…/brave-privacy-browser-caught-au…

Ilandar ,

Yes, that’s what I was referring to. A very far cry from “just a big crypto scam”.

TheBigBrother ,

IDK why you waste time explaining these kind of things to these kind of people mate, I mean someone who define that as a “big crypto scam” doesn’t even know what’s a big crypto scam.

TheGrandNagus , (edited )
  • pushing crypto on users
  • injecting crypto affiliate links
  • installing other Brave software without permission on your PC when you install their browser
  • an obscenely high marketing budget that misled people about data collection on Brave
  • a CEO that was fired from Mozilla for being openly homophobic and donating money to a campaign that wanted to undo the legalisation of same-sex marriage (although some users may view this as a good thing)
reka ,

so long dental plan!

charonn0 ,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

Lisa needs braces!

Lemmy80085 ,

Unpopular opinion: the less people use ad block, the better the experience of those using ad blockers.

Remember the days before ad block detection and nag?

seedd ,

Those who don’t like FF can use brave, it’s brave shield works well

TypicalHog ,

Brave will continue to support manifest V2.

Maeve ,

Is ublock origin still operable for YouTube? Could this be related?

Ilandar ,

The blocking of YouTube ads is related to the decision to limit ad-blocking in Chrome, yes.

dandu3 ,

As long as chromium keeps it I’m fine. I use edge, why should I bother with downloading another browser when the one it comes with is identical?

Choco1ateCh1p ,
@Choco1ateCh1p@lemmy.world avatar

The reason you’re utilizing edge is valid, but why not use Firefox?

miridius ,

Sensationalist and inaccurate title

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