When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slower.
  • Laser@feddit.de
    32·
    10 months ago

    In addition to what was already said - use Firefox instead of anything chromium-based - I think it’s equally important to stop using the services offered by big tech companies and not just try to keep using them on our terms. Google wants me to watch a ton of ads on YouTube? Fine, I’ll stop watching it. In fairness, on my smart TV, YouTube ads have been what I consider adequate, while Twitch can be a disaster. The alternatives already exist with Peertube and Owncast. Are they perfect yet? Far from it probably but there won’t be big improvements if nobody uses it.

    • Audacity9961@feddit.chOP
      12·
      10 months ago

      Why do you expect that Edge wouldn’t adopt Google-like MV3 along with Chrome?

      Microsoft adopted Chromium in order to minimise development costs in a product it doesn’t see as core, something which would be incurred if it had to maintain its own fork of mv3, and is incentivized through Bing to pursue a similar approach.

        • Tracteur Blindé@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          When in a discussion about an article, it’s usually a good idea to read the article since it may make or address the points that you want to discuss. The headline (in this case) is just the conclusion and you’re missing all the supporting evidence that leads there. Taking just headlines and assuming the context leads to being misinformed and spreading misinformation.

          my adblocker is in Edge’s extension store. If Google is throttling updates to my adblocker

          For instance, you are assuming that this is related to Google maliciously throttling extension updates which is not true.

          YouTube is pushing new ad-block circumvention approximately daily.

          Microsoft’s documentation states that extension updates can take up to 7 days to pass certification and go live.

          That is not materially different than Google’s behaviour in this context.

  • bedrooms@kbin.social
    3·
    10 months ago

    I don’t know so much about this, but it’s funny to see all this while Apple lets me set an ad blocker in iOS settings.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    10 months ago

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    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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