Google will stop Chrome users from using ad-blockers

[Jamie McKane]

Google will stop Chrome users from using ad-blockers

Google has confirmed that it will be stopping non-enterprise users from using ad-blocking plug-ins on its Chrome browser.

Google said it has listened to the feedback it has received from users after previously announcing its intentions to deprecate webRequest's ability to block requests before they're loaded.

 

[Baise]

Time to find a new web browser then.

 

[backstreetboy]

Ah Firefox, hello, my old friend, nice to get to know you again.

 

[Sinbad]

New browser, new phone OS, **** I may even have to migrate my email domains away now. Google becoming the new Microshyte.

 

[My_King]

Have not used that crap in like ever.

 

[Randux]

Firefox it is then.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Firefox it is then.

except when Firefox eats memory like a Fat Kid n a candy store.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

I've been using FireFox Quantum for a few months now - highly recommended.

 

[konfab]

Brave or Edge...

 

[AstroTurf]

Sad but Firefox or Opera will be my first move if that happens.

 

[SykomantiS]

So time to dump Chrome then.

 

[karnuffel]

Firefox it is then

 

[werny]

Have been using FireFox for a solid year now and have no issues with it, the moment I use Chrome on another workstation it actually feels outdated and less polished.

Chrome will just become irrelevant like IE/Edge if the proceed with this change, NOBODY likes ads!

Go FireFox!

 

[Sl8er]

Time to move over to WaterFox for good, then

 

[Fulcrum29]

Reading the link, it seems to be the Chromium team (and Google) dismantling ad block developers. More than Chrome then.

 

[Suspect99]

Bye Chrome

 

[Spliffcat]

Via for me.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Brave, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Silk (Amazon), etc. all seems to be compromised because ads matters. Google, or Alphabet, will always be the #1 interweb-to-interweb salesman, it is in their DNA.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Chrome will also likely be moving to DNS over HTTPS at some point (the mobile version already does) so the usual DNS based ad blockers probably won't work by default at some point although you should be able to disable it in `chrome://flags`.

 

[dews]

Time to move over to WaterFox for good, then

Since the Firefox anti-addon shinanigans, I have also switched over to Waterfox, its great.