Google will stop Chrome users from using ad-blockers

I have to wonder how many Chromium developers will now be absorbed by Mozilla or move back to Mozilla. Mozilla once stepped into a similar situation and most developers then moved to Chromium. This change impacts more than simple ads blocking.
 
Hardly ever use Chrome anyway. MS edge is more than acceptable.
Have recently deleted Chrome off my Laptop and quite a few PCs at the owner's requests.
Wish I could get rid of it completely on mobile devices.
 
GhostSixFour said:
What anti-addon stuff happened? I missed that. Is it sorted now though?
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They were blocking add-ons that have their code obfuscated. They (firefox) do not like that the add-on developers hides the logic from them, so they have disabled all add-ons that did that, which was 100% of the addons I used. I don't really trust Firefox anymore in any case, it seems all the major browsers wants to take away control from us.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I have to wonder how many Chromium developers will now be absorbed by Mozilla or move back to Mozilla. Mozilla once stepped into a similar situation and most developers then moved to Chromium. This change impacts more than simple ads blocking.
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Chromium won't be affected.
And if it is, you can bet Brave and Microsoft will add it back.
 
Hello Brave browser,just need to get a good sync mechanism going for all my settings/bookmarks
 
Never used Chrome. Vivaldi, Waterfox, Dissenter, all good alternatives. Switched to Protonmail too, for good measure. Using Startpage for searches.
 
meh so pihole for a while until that stops working too it seems.
Google is really screwing up bigtime with their users. The whole lockdown they have done on their smarthome devices is a huge mess and it seems to heading to their other product lines too.
 
konfab said:
Chromium won't be affected.
And if it is, you can bet Brave and Microsoft will add it back.
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https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/22/chrome-extension-manifest-v3-could-end-ublock-origin-for-chrome/

The new API would limit content blockers for Chrome-based browsers and eliminate options to create new and unique content blocking extensions. All that would be left are AdBlock Plus like filtering extensions that would all offer the same blocking functionality.

While there would still be adblockers for Chrome, the limit of 30,000 network filters would make even those less capable than before. EasyList, a very popular blocking list, has 42,000 filters and if users add other lists used for other purposes, e.g. social blocking, that number would increase even more.

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Could this have been Google's plan all along? Create a web browser and use it to combat the use of content blockers? Block some annoying ads, allow basic content blockers, and block any other form of content blocking to make sure that Google's advertising business improves again?

Some users would certainly move to Firefox if uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and other content blockers would no longer work in Chrome-based browsers. Even if millions would migrate, it would still leave Chrome dominate the entire desktop browser market.

It will also be interesting to see how Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, and other Chromium-based browser developers react to the change, if it passes the way it is proposed right now.
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Chrome extension manifest V3... Google is sticking to its guns. Unless the other engine users decide to deconstruct Chromium in their own way, they will do what Google is instructing them into.
 
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