Google Chrome’s move to Manifest V3 for extensions is closing its final loophole and, with it, bringing the end of...
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    Google Chrome’s next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers a large portion of the public using their vanilla product that stops ad blocking

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      It’ll mark the end of chrome for anyone that wants to use a website without 2/3 of it being filled with ads and slowing tons crawl because of all the invasive scripts

    • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      It baffles me. I told my dad I can get him adfree youtube in just 5 minutes if I install firefox on his phone.

      His response was that he doesn’t want to install “yet another app” as if it’s a big deal.

      I’m so often left speechless by this stuff. It’s asinine.

      Eat your ad slop then… Wtf else can I say…

      • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        They don’t want to be bothered learning something new, they’ll just stick to what works for them.

        • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
          41·
          5 days ago

          Learning what? There’s no learning involved, unless you count pressing a different app icon and typing in youtube in search as “learning”.

          And in the specific case of my dad, he’s no tech illiterate. He has Linux Mint on his laptop. He can get by just fine. He’s just really fucking lazy with this stuff.

        • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          I can understand that.

          I’m an early Xer, and my mom an early boomer. She’s been a computer user since the late 70s. Right now, She does all these things, install a bajillion apps for things like the BBC and 10 other news services even though I have explained to her that she could have them all as bookmarks in FF, with ad and tracker blocking, etc.

          She understands it. She does, but at her age she can’t be arsed to open a website, bookmark it, then go to bookmarks, etc. I’ve even tried to get her to turn things into PWAs, which she gets ! But can’t be arsed.

          I’m an IT guy, the eternal tech support for friends and family. Now my eldest son is an analyst at a major telco, and I send him all the traffic, and sometimes even ask him to do or figure out stuff for me, because I can’t be arsed. Same reasons I’ve been on Mint for a few years, until I discovered CachyOS. I started my Linux journey in Slackware, painfully downloaded as diskette images, and have been distro hopping all my life, using all major distros at one time or another. Now I can’t be arsed.

          Im still a tinkerer, a maker, homelabber, etc. but the mundane, I can’t be arsed.

  • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    No… It will mark the end of some of them in Chrome. Not in general.

    What actually happens is that some people move away from Chrome, because ads suck.

  • GutterRat42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    I used to manage software that needed to be tested in all 3 major browsers every time we had an issue, and that was the only reason Chrome was even in my work PC. I moved on from that position, so bye bye Chrome

      • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        7 days ago

        Chrome is in a similar position that IE used to be. It uses its majority position to move web development away from standards and so devs need to write extra code to support both chrome and others - or make chrome only sites.

      • ilovesaggytits:) @lemmus.orgEnglish
        11·
        5 days ago

        Eh, Brave is good enough after you disable all the bloatware. The search engine is also good. It is my second browser after WebLibre (Gecko browser built from scratch)

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      Brave is bullshit Malware.

      Use Vivaldi.

      Made by the people who made the original Opera.

      Hyper customizable, ad, tracking, and pop-up blocker by default.

      I’ve been a Firefox user since the days of mosaic. I used the original Opera for years, coming back to FF when Opera was bought by the Chinese. While I still have FF as my main browser, I’m now finding myself using Vivaldi about 50% of the time. Damn good.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      I don’t know if it would, necessarily. So many alternatives are chrome-based, and part of the reason google was able to accrue that share to begin with was by putting a “get chrome now” in the corner of every search you did.

      Most alternatives don’t have that same kind of advertising reach to displace chrome, especially not for casual users.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        I doubt there’s many people who care about using add block who don’t at least know what Firefox is.