Are you gonna be part of the Chrome exodus?

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-holds-firm-on-chrome-changes-that-may-break-ad-blockers/

Enterprise users can keep the ads away. The rest of us can't.

I just switched and synced everything up. Chrome will be what Firefox and Edge were, browsers to make sure my code looked fine. No way I'm sticking with them if they're forcing malware-ridden nonsense onto my laptop.

Kingp35

Very ironic username!

Phileas Frog

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-holds-firm-on-chrome-changes-that-may-break-ad-blockers/

Enterprise users can keep the ads away. The rest of us can't.

I just switched and synced everything up. Chrome will be what Firefox and Edge were, browsers to make sure my code looked fine. No way I'm sticking with them if they're forcing malware-ridden nonsense onto my laptop.

Use new Edge, it's Chromium based

og2k7

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-holds-firm-on-chrome-changes-that-may-break-ad-blockers/

Enterprise users can keep the ads away. The rest of us can't.

I just switched and synced everything up. Chrome will be what Firefox and Edge were, browsers to make sure my code looked fine. No way I'm sticking with them if they're forcing malware-ridden nonsense onto my laptop.

I am hoping they will fix it so no exodus will actually occur - Chrome so far is the best browser for my needs so hopefully wont be an issue

KungPao

Never really used it. Firefox on the laptop, safari on the phone.

NSAman

Use Chrome, but with this announcement switching is already underway. Still looking at the alternatives no decision made as of yet......Google shooting itself in the foot on many platforms and companies at this stage.

Phileas Frog

Phileas Frog wrote: »

Use new Edge, it's Chromium based

Honestly, I thought Edge was grand for the last few years before the move to Chromium. Very fast, probably because of no entensions.

Thankfully, the move makes devs lives easier.

Greyfox

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-holds-firm-on-chrome-changes-that-may-break-ad-blockers/

Enterprise users can keep the ads away. The rest of us can't.

Enterprise is rubbish, I love using Chrome, its far more reliable then internet explorer, hopefully I'll never have to use a different browser for the rest of my life, even if it only takes 10 seconds I absolutely hate change

Kiith

Moved back to Firefox a year ago after Chrome decided to just eat my memory whenever it started.

The other great about Firefox is that its extensions work on mobile.






I'm a slut; I'll advertise anything.

biko

Google, the problem and the solution.

coldcake

Brave Browser for the win

dhaughton99

Just use Brave, the slimmed down adblocking chrome browser. A lot faster in every way.

Skylinehead

I'm on Opera atm, still use Chrome for some things but less and less. It's a RAM-murderer anyway, although Opera being Chromium-based isn't that much better there.

The ultimate solution is to use something like a Pihole to stop ads at the network level.

dhaughton99

dhaughton99 wrote: »

Just use Brave, the slimmed down adblocking chrome browser. A lot faster in every way.

Have you tried Vivaldi? I'm considering another go at it. Never looked at Brave.

BlackandGreen

I already jumped ship a few months ago.
It's become noticeably worse. Advertisements are now more forced and I can't avoid them. Several of my addons either stopped working or were forced to change how they work due to google clamping down on them.
i.e ublocker, scripblockers, youtube downloaders etc.


That coupled with how shít google search has gone too. Google are a ****ty company and they've become so ultra corporate.

You cant google anything these days without being bombarded with paid advertisements, and piss poor commercialised results.


It's not like the old days when the first few pages would have genuinely interesting/relevant websites and info and not just clickbait articles, shady news and promoted items.



Youtube is the same name. With their algorithms you can't look up smaller more obscure things without your entire search results just being totally unrelated crap i.e advertisements.



The whole world is going this way.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Ad blockers are nice and all but people gotta eat.

OldMrBrennan83

Nah, wouldn't even be near enough to make me switch from Chrome. I do 95% of my browsing on the phone anyway and it doesn't have an ad-blocker so I don't care if it breaks them. Any other browser I used was dog****, plus I use so many Google services that it's note convenient for me that they get my data rather than someone else.

Deebles McBeebles

Noticed a problem recently on Firefox with Ad Block Plus extension. Is this something all browsers will eventually do?

Deebles McBeebles

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Noticed a problem recently on Firefox with Ad Block Plus extension. Is this something all browsers will eventually do?

Use uBlock Origin.


Ad Block / Plus allow certain ads through if those companies pay them.

JohnnyFlash

I moved to Firefox years ago, and now use it on the laptop and mobile. I wouldn't be that technically literate, but it was 'shít slow' for a while. It's now much better though, and I like the extensions you can use. Google are a really creepy company these days, and I'd rather not make the change at this stage.

BeerWolf

biko wrote: »

Google, the problem and the solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXyrYMxa-VI

Icaras

coldcake wrote: »

Brave Browser for the win

Good suggestion, downloaded it and using it now. Just like Chrome.

BeerWolf

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

Ad blockers are nice and all but people gotta eat.

And buy luxurious yatches and wipe their ass with gold? :pac:

They're raking in money without needing this change. This is pure greed to find where else they can squeeze money out of its users...

Alun

Been using Brave on Android for ages, but was using Firefox on Windows. Just downloaded Brave for Windows and it's blazingly fast. Might keep it.

JohnnyFlash

BeerWolf wrote: »

And buy luxurious yatches and wipe their ass with gold? :pac:

They're raking in money without needing this change. This is pure greed to find where else they can squeeze money out of its users...

It's no surprise to hear that 3 companies have, over the past year, reached a trillion dollar market cap. A thousand billion dollars is Austin Powers type stuff. Apple got there first, Amazon went there next, and now Microsoft are looking like the company most likely to keep bothering that watermark. Google and Facebook are worth a paltry 750 billion, and 580 billion respectively.

You can understand how Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple might be worth even a generous fraction of that. But FB and Google exist only by harvesting user data so they can sell ads. You are the product. It's really sinister and creepy when you think about it for more than a minute. You're being tracked around the internet with an efficiency that the KGB would have killed for. They know your desires, compulsions, weaknesses, and moments of clarity.

suicide_circus

yes i will certainly switch from Chrome if this goes ahead

Atoms for Peace

I've gone back to Netscape navigator.

kowloon

Chrome remembers all my preferences on sites and autofills for my address and the likes, changing is going to be a pain in the arse, but I'll have to do it on principle.

Dyr

coldcake wrote: »

Brave Browser for the win

I'm on Brave too

Firefox is dog**** and has been for some time

Edge isn't that bad these days.

DopeTech

I've started using kiwi browser as it had adblocker built in and allows chrome extensions also.

Harry Palmr

Amazed that anyone uses Firefox now, it used to be good but something happened and it became slow and hungry. Chrome is not as intuitively clever as Opera (old school Opera that is, pre Chrome engine) but alas opera 12.18 is now only good for browsing message boards. Anything complex and interactive//media/java packed makes it grind to a halt. A pity the people behind it sold out.

Circuital

Brave is Chromium based and so the extensions will cease to work how it currently does there also. Side note: Brave by itself only blocks first party cookies.

Firefox extensions don’t work on iOS (thanks Apple). FF is just a skin over Safari in iOS so not really proper FF experience.

I was using Chrome. On Firefox now. Find Quantum a bit clunky on Mac though.

Squidgy Black

Circuital wrote: »

Brave is Chromium based and so the extensions will cease to work how it currently does there also. Side note: Brave by itself only blocks first party cookies.

Firefox extensions don’t work on iOS (thanks Apple). FF is just a skin over Safari in iOS so not really proper FF experience.

I was using Chrome. On Firefox now. Find Quantum a bit clunky on Mac though.

Yup, any Chromium based browser (Edge chromium, Brave, Opera) will be affected by this.

It's not just the extensions, the framework itself will be changed so they're removing the existing webRewuestAPI with a new declarativeNetRequestAPI endpoint so any of the chromium browsers with inbuilt adblockers won't be able to call the previous API endpoint to block ads as I'm assuming they'll only grant access to authenticated requests from adblocker plus