In an ideal world the headline would be “Google kills Chrome by preventing users from blocking ads”.
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you guys notice this strategy lately of announcing something bad, and dragging it on to soften the outrage?
tech companies seem to be doing it a lot. microsoft with windows recall too.
My dad used to watch TV and I always wondered why given how shit it was, nothing but ads. He told me about how great it used to be when he was a kid. I can't help think the same thing is happening now with the internet. It's dying. It's already shit compared to 10 years ago and I only see it getting worse. Our generations will cling to it remembering what it used to be though, just like he did.
Lemmy's kinda helped me see a different perspective. It's just old man talk. Like, the internet is still there. Everything that once was, still is. Just a lot more shit the rest of everyone is usually using. Stop trying to keep up with everyone using all these popular sites for everyday life like they did with TV. Find obscure websites and dedicated forums for your topic. Don't rely on Google^tm^ to find the internet for you. Before, you actually had to find a site (magazines, social/network circles) then hope that site had a search function if you're looking for something particular (this is the old internet everyone craves lol, it wasn't perfect by any means/rose tinted glasses).
You can use the internet just like you did back in the day and have the same experience. It's just that the majority of the world uses the connection for a "TV"-like feed with main popular sites and apps. There's still more people using and improving the "old internet" compared to the 90's, so it's only a net positive in my book.
The difference between linear tv (that your dad watched) and the internet is that there is no alternative to the latter.
This article has some misinformation in places. Like it claims Vivaldi's ad-blocker cannot be investigated further because the project is closed source, but the only closed source part of Vivaldi is the UI (approximately 5% of the total code). The ad-blocker C++ code is published along with the other 95% of the browser's code.
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uBlock may have enough support to start their own maintained fork, and be the upstream for all the other quiet browsers. That dude is like THE ONE GUY that makes chromium sane, and doesn't even take donations?!
That's madness, I was literally about to donate to him today but I check the site you're absolutely correct. No donations :(
I finally switched to Firefox when I couldn't remove the ads on my casual browsing. Now I'm told Firefox isn't cash money either? Wtf is going on here.
forks of firefox still keeping things going such as mullvad browser, waterfox, librewolf
What pisses me off is seeing more and more "You need to upgrade your browser for this site!" when using Firefox.
Having to use a spoof header gets frustrating frequently too.
I haven't seen this warning in 6 years
I haven't seen such warnings for years anymore
Several of my utility companies and bank sites do this still. It's absurd and in the stranger places.
In my head I respond “you need to upgrade your website to handle my rad browser, fellas”
I love how they gave a TL;DR right at the beginning of the article, it rade me stay and read the rest out of respect for the author.
Google lives of the ads [among the things), of course a browser they develop is going to screw the add-ons that block ads. Solution: avoid google if you want an ad-free internet.
If the other main Chromium based browsers can figure out (or keep in the instance of having their own extension stores) how to support for V2 extensions. Then it would be easier to recommend replacing Chrome to normies and other folks with those options. As one of the main issues comes down to lots of sites (especially stuff like school or work) doing the modern version of IE and are coded to really only work with Chrome.
I was advising customers to just use Edge if they needed Chrome for those reasons. And a lot of them did since it meant not installing extra programs. Though it is currently hard to recommend Edge due to MS seeming to find more and more "features" to add that make shit really annoying and scummy. It is like they are trying so hard to make it not worth using at all. So Brave and Vivaldi are the new options I tell people about.
Brave's main downside (IMO) is the crypto stuff maybe confusing/pointless for folks. Vivaldi's main downside (and upside for users that love it) is how overwhelming levels of customization settings. But they both don't have their own extension stores. Opera could also work since they have their own extension store. I hate how it and the GX version love to automatically set themselves to launch on Windows startup (fuck all of them that try to do this as well).
You should check the provenience of your alternatives. Except maybe Vivaldi these aren’t really better.
WaterFox!
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