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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Maybe we're thinking about this wrong. Maybe we should all start running plugins that just load whatever ads that show up in the background hundreds of times without showing them to us. Every viewer is thousands upon thousands of impressions and click through rates become absolutely miserable. We can make the ads worthless or maybe even make them cost a significant amount of money to host.

[–] washbasin 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

AdNauseam does this to a lesser degree. I'm not sure how effective it is.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's mildly effective in the sense that it will decimate click-through rates, but if enough people did it, they would start filtering by IP, and you'd need to change how many ads it clicks on so it looks more human.

It also still gives advertisers your data, since it still has to load the ads on your system to click them, so it's not as privacy-preserving as a full-on adblocker that outright blocks every advertisement and tracker related network request in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 262 points 5 days ago (30 children)

shrugs in Firefox

[–] [email protected] 107 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Careful, there are some edgy people out there who don’t want to use more than one browser because Firefox doesn’t work with their cameras /s

Meanwhile, I’ll still be using Firefox too

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Who needs to give their browser access to their camera?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago (1 children)

May be bad phrasing, but Firefox doesn’t support h.265 so there’s limitations with streaming video on some camera platforms and other sites.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (4 children)

TIL Firefox doesn't support HEVC. Hadn't really noticed that before, I guess it's why some Jellyfin streams started transcoding for me.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago

It is supported in the nightly build and full support is in the works currently.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/hevc-support/idc-p/63424/highlight/true#M36557

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (5 children)

People who have to use their browser for telehealth and virtual teller banking access.

Sadly these are also things that require better security.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What could go wrong when you let an ad company dictate the browser standards/rules.

I know we have Firefox and some forks like librewolf, but percentage wise it feels like a lost battle ( even if I am on Firefox ).

If only people switched en masse to Firefox for the ad blocker. Wouldn't that be something... One big collective FU to Google.

Oh well. One can dream I guess.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (9 children)

The average Joe or Jane have no idea about ad blocking possibilities. They think ads are just the normal price you pay for surfing the web.

I have even shown people the difference between their browsing experience and mine, and still they can't be arsed to install an ad-blocker.

But then again, they use tiktok and Instagram and all the other brain-numbing shit out there.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I suspect this will soon be followed by a renewed effort by google to kill firefox compatability.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We've known this was coming for a while now . . . but I suppose not everyone reads tech news.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Looks like time to find a new browser!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

May I interest you in browsers based on FireFox?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (5 children)

why not Firefox itself?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Someone who repackages/patches free software has different incentives than upstream. So generally speaking, derivative browsers are more privacy friendly, have better features, etc.

That's not to say that upstream isn't important. It absolutely is! It's just that derivatives are generally better.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I used to recommend uBlock as a no-brainer, now folks really need to change towards a better browser.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Or get network wide blocking. Doesn’t prevent everything but it does prevent most ads. Makes the internet tolerable at least.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 days ago (8 children)

nah, lets get them switched away from chromium based spy machines.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 days ago (15 children)

And what? If someone can live with ads, they can stay. Otherwise anyone can install Firefox. I was all-in Google since the beginning of Gmail. And switching to Firefox was completely painless. Everything works the same, times of website incompatibility are long gone.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 days ago (18 children)

Because Google is trying to turn the internet into a walled garden where only people with Chrome can visit the majority of websites.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (11 children)

What if websites decide that chrome users earn much more ad revenue and start forcing users to switch with those "This website only supports Chrome" error messages? What if this practice gets popular? I'm sure there are ways to get around it, but the average users who bothered switching to Firefox at all, will just conclude that anything except chrome has a bad browsing experience.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought they already killed it? They keep killing it multiple times.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Been using Firefox for quite a time now! What are the other alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Ladybird is working really hard to become good enough for daily drive. Will they succeed? Idk. How long will it take? Idk.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Didn't see this coming. Thanks for reporting it 😁

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It did its job then. Gave warning.

🐥⛏️

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Great day to be a firefox user!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hopefully wikipedia recognizes this as the official Canary in the Chrome mine. I was first impressed with chrome book because of seeing them used for education, getting my own laptop during school would've been mindblowing to kid me. I was unimpressed with the strangulation process of the OS but again shocked when they added a linux boot mode. There needs to be better alternatives by now, I would be ok with an OS developed by the department of education in conjunction with higher educational institutions. Could have a decent non-profit approach to a browser and ad blockers could legitimately be built in as a "protect the children" aim of approach.

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