r/technology • u/speckz • May 31 '19
Software Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome - Google says the changes will improve performance and security. Ad block developers and consumer advocates say Google is simply protecting its ad dominance.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-to-justify-making-chrome-ad-blockers-worse798
u/FenrisLycaon May 31 '19
Firefox, I am so sorry that I left. Please take me back.
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u/Rebelgecko Jun 01 '19
If you haven't used it since FF Quantum released, you'll be surprised. Performance is on par or better than Chrome, especially if you're a tab whore like me
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u/squrr1 Jun 01 '19
Regardless of what Google says, it's been fun moving my digital life to Firefox today. Vote with your feet.
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u/JoJokerer Jun 01 '19
Exactly what I've been doing. Even found out theres a nice paywall blocker I didn't have access to on Chrome. Godbless
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Jun 01 '19
I returned to Firefox when Google flatly stated that Chrome would not block autoplay videos as long as the sound is muted. Google also keeps messing with the related APIs in Chrome, breaking extensions that try to stop videos from playing automatically.
Firefox works great and I won't go back to Chrome even if Google changes their minds on autoplay videos. I like being on an independent browser.
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May 31 '19
If a web browser is not functioning the way I want, I find one that does.
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u/gorkish Jun 01 '19
I deploy ad blocking as part of a corporate security policy. Malicious advertising is a huge vector for malware and you can find instances where nearly every major site has unwittingly served up something dangerous because someone has been able to finagle an ad network into serving up an exploit.
Today, blocking ads is both more practical and more effective than using antivirus software.
Fortunately we are at least still somewhat in control of our computers. The second google actually prevents ad blockers from actually running in Chrome will be the second someone releases a utility to bring the functionality back. Google can go fuck themselves for all I care. If I can’t block bad shit in Chrome I will prevent it from running on every computer I possibly can, and that is a fantastic number of machines.
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u/SovereignGFC Jun 01 '19
I finished switching to Firefox yesterday.
Bonus: You can use (at least some) extensions on mobile Firefox (such as uBlock Origin).
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u/bye-bye2020 Jun 01 '19
Firefox has been my browser for years and still keeps getting better and better.
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u/swemoney Jun 01 '19
I switched to Firefox months ago because I felt like Chrome was just bloated and slow. Do not regret for a second. Firefox is really nice right now.
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u/mehvermore Jun 01 '19
Made the switch to Firefox yesterday after reading about this. It was practically seamless. Vote with your browser, I guess.
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u/coffeebeard Jun 01 '19
Started using Firefox again today.
Over time I'll phase it in and move away from Chrome if not 99% probably 100%.
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u/Fried-Egg-Sandwich Jun 01 '19
Chrome user since the very early versions here. Switched to Firefox and installed all the recommeneded privacy addons this morning. Changed my default search to DuckDuckGo and signed out of my Google acccount. The internert suddenly feels like it used to do again, before Google took over everything and made it feel generic.
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u/danielnogo Jun 01 '19
Fucking with my ad block is a good way to get me to leave chrome altogether. I've been a huge Google supporter over the years, but their draconian tactics as of late has really rubbed me the wrong way, if my ad block is taken away, Google will seriously no longer have my support.
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u/farmercurtis Jun 01 '19
Isn’t it funny that they’re going to disable adblockers, and at the same time YouTube has starting upping the amount of ads you have to watch/how long an advert is before the video. Money money money
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u/pembroke529 Jun 01 '19
People spend many years attending colleges and universities taking courses in marketing to come up with these statements.
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u/zahbe May 31 '19 edited Jun 08 '19
If chrome stops supporting ad blockers. I'll just switch browsers. Maybe I'll get some of my ram back lol
Edit: ok so I just saw a bunch of ads and a video that I could not skip or even close, till it played all the way through. Onesite tried to open 200+ ads and it still had some on the oage. Good bye chrome hello Firefox. And low and behold no more ads! Thanks for all the advice!