- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slowe
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when the most popular browser engine is made by advertising corporation…
Eu salivating over it’s monoply case
The one thing that could absolutely kill Chrome’s market share… And they’re doing it. LMAO!
Mozilla couldn’t be happier!
To be honest, this might actually be a complete game changer… except Mozilla is over 80% “owned” by Google, so we’ll see… they might play ball…
This is the only reason chrome exists. Why else go through the pain to maintain a web browser?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
YouTube can instantly switch up its ad delivery system, but once Manifest V3 becomes mandatory, that won’t be true for extension developers.
If ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game of updates and counter-updates, then Google will force the mouse to slow down.
The current platform, Manifest V2, has been around for over ten years and works just fine, but it’s also quite powerful and allows extensions to have full filtering control over the traffic your web browser sees.
Engadget’s Anthony Ha interviewed some developers in the filtering extension community, and they described a constant cat-and-mouse game with YouTube.
Firefox’s Manifest V3 implementation doesn’t come with the filtering limitations, and parent company Mozilla promises that users can “rest assured that in spite of these changes to Chrome’s new extensions architecture, Firefox’s implementation of Manifest V3 ensures users can access the most effective privacy tools available like uBlock Origin and other content-blocking and privacy-preserving extensions.”
Google claims that Manifest V3 will improve browser “privacy, security, and performance,” but every comment we can find from groups that aren’t giant ad companies disputes this description.
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I was wondering if all Alphabet employees aren’t allowed to use ad blockers. Do they really believe that the internet without adblockers is a sane experience?
Hmm… Something something Firefox
I moved away from chrome over a year ago, once they started talking about blocking ad blockers. Firefox works great, easily imports your passwords and bookmarks, and supports all the ad block extensions I like.
Google feels ok in doing this due to their dominating share in the browser market. In reality, the most influential users of their products will end up finding alternatives, and never coming back. These users tend to convince other users to follow. It’ll be a slow downturn unless Google ramps up their efforts, but it’ll happen.
For ad/trackerblocking no need of the ChromeStore in Vivaldi, also easy to install extensions from other sources, even scripts. Only bad for other Chromiums.
