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corbin OP , to technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

That’s up to 30K dynamic rules, at least 30K static rules, and at least 1K regex rules: developer.chrome.com/…/declarativeNetRequest#prop…

That seems like it’s fine for general use, and those limits might go up again. EasyList and the other big lists can be consolidated to varying degrees with Chrome’s rules format, and there’s probably some dead rules in there. uBlock Origin on Firefox will definitely be more versatile moving forward, but every time I’ve used uBlock Origin Lite in Chrome it’s almost the same experience.

corbin OP , to technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

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corbin OP , to technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

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corbin OP , to technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

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corbin OP , to technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

The article talks about Firefox too.

corbin OP , to technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

Adblock users are still a statistical minority of web users. Most people don’t care (as evidenced by Netflix’s ad tier gaining subscribers every quarter) or don’t know those extensions exist.

corbin OP , to technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

Except the part where it didn’t imply that at all?

That performance cost seems to be negligible in uBlock Origin and other popular ad blockers that have focused on optimization (uBO has an explainer wiki page), but there were probably other extensions not doing that well. It’s not hard to see a situation where multiple poorly-optimized extensions installed using the Web Request API could dramatically slow down Chrome, and the user would have no way of knowing the issue.

corbin OP , to technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

What specifically is “google propaganda and fear mongering” in the article?

corbin , to steam in What do you think of this prediction?

I wrote about this a few months ago: www.spacebar.news/steam-time-bomb/

corbin , to technology in Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems

I mean, there’s a difference between not reading an article, and several people arguing back and forth over the article that none of them have read. Reddit and Lemmy people do a lot of the latter.

corbin , to technology in Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems

This might not be Reddit, but the Reddit behavior is still here.

corbin OP , to technology in The problem with GIMP

There aren’t actual numbers because you can’t poll for that. There’s not a database somewhere that keeps track of every teacher or manager that says “ew” when someone brings up GIMP. There are some documented examples, though, some of which are listed in the article.

corbin OP , to technology in The problem with GIMP

Yeah, the destructive editing and lack of a content aware fill is made me stop using it and go back to Photoshop. Krita also seems more usable these days in the FOSS world. The name is a lot easier to fix than those missing features, though.

corbin OP , to technology in The problem with GIMP

Right, ultimately it’s their project and they can do what they want, but it’s also their loss every time some person or organization skips it because of the name.

corbin OP , to technology in The problem with GIMP

No, it was named after the character, GIMP is a reverse acronym:

It took us a little while to come up with the name. We knew we wanted an image manipulation program like Photoshop, but the name IMP sounded wrong. We also tossed around XIMP (X Image Manipulation Program) following the rule of when in doubt prefix an X for X11 based programs. At the time, Pulp Fiction was the hot movie and a single word popped into my mind while we were tossing out name ideas. It only took a few more minutes to determine what the ‘G’ stood for.

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