Google Chrome ends support for important ad blocker-related feature

[Luis]

Google Chrome ends support for important ad blocker-related feature

Google recently released Chrome 149, which will be the last version of the popular web browser to support an important feature widely used by ad blocker extensions.

From Chrome 150, the browser will no longer allow the installation of extensions that rely on Manifest V2 (MV2), a standard that governed browser extensions for over a decade.

 

[ThinkCentre]

There are still solutions like Adguard and Pi-Hole!
My concern is if this is not lowering the security?

 

[Smiggles]

Just use Ublock Origin lite

 

[friedpiggy]

Yes, because this is a far more important change than fixing the memory hogging.

 

[system32]

Just use Ublock Origin lite

Just use Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, Zen Browser
These will continue to support MV2 allowing full uBlock - some even have builtin ad blockers.

 

[Sapphiron]

a feature called Blocking WebRequest, with Google citing privacy, security, and performance considerations.

So Google admits they want your Privacy, Security and performance to be worse.

who are they now? Microslop?

Maybe we should start calling them Gloople. So you can have Goop with your Slop.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

So glad I switched to Firefox a while back.

 

[Brian_G]

The furthest I'll go with them ever is Chromium, nicely lean and so not able to be in your face. And Edge for streaming only, for similar reasons. Firefox for the win

 

[Smiggles]

Just use Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, Zen Browser
These will continue to support MV3 allowing full uBlock - some even have builtin ad blockers.

I get memory leaks with Firefox.

 

[Brian_G]

I get memory leaks with Firefox.

 

[garyc]

Google citing privacy, security, and performance considerations.

BS on this. One of the reasons I use uBlock on Firefox, apart from the obvious, is to mitigate supply chain attacks. Even the FBI has recommended that people use them for online security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blocking.

 

[Sapphiron]

There are still solutions like Adguard and Pi-Hole!
My concern is if this is not lowering the security?

So long as you are forced to render content in the browser without controls, Google has sole control over the security of it.

DNS only controls what is downloaded, not what is run locally.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Yes, because this is a far more important change than fixing the memory hogging.

Would you rather it use very little memory and reduce loading times and UI speeds to a crawl?

 

[Bad Ballie]

Given that Googles business model is based on selling your usage data and advertising revenue, one can safely assume that the change is intentional, although of course they already know that a work around will be found. I don't use google for anything other than a Gmail account, and only because I have had that particular mail address for decades.

 

[Sapphiron]

Would you rather it use very little memory and reduce loading times and UI speeds to a crawl?

Using more memory is a crutch instead of actually writing better code.

 

[RaptorSA]

So long as you are forced to render content in the browser without controls, Google has sole control over the security of it.

DNS only controls what is downloaded, not what is run locally.

This.
If I use only my AdGuard DNS server at home the experience is better by sending the ad traffic in to a black hole, but the annoying ad placeholder code is still there, this would still irritate me.

 

[Kung Fu Porkchop]

I got AdGuard set up on my home network last week, and I've been using Brave for some time.
I tried Firefox a while back, but it feels sluggish to me

 

[RaptorSA]

I got AdGuard set up on my home network last week, and I've been using Brave for some time.
I tried Firefox a while back, but it feels sluggish to me

23% of all DNS requests on my network being ad-related is nuts.

 

[Brian_G]

I tried Firefox a while back, but it feels sluggish to me

Only sluggish experience I've had in recent times was Vivaldi.

 

[Kung Fu Porkchop]

23% of all DNS requests on my network being ad-related is nuts.

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Mine is a little less, but it's still crazy