Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

Firefox users who never left: feeling of smugness intensifies

What a great selling point for Firefox.

WE BLOCK ADS!

Google Chrome can suck a dick.

If only there was an alternative. Some kinda fox. A fox that was set aflame

To abuse a saying...

Best time to be on Firefox? Yesterday.

Second best? Today.

Free ad for Firefox. Funny enough can't be blocked by ad blockers.

This, but computer literacy rather than literal literacy

title as it should be: 'google did not die a hero, it instead lived long enough to become the villain.'

Laughs in Firefox

They're going to burn their own browser. If they stop allowing adblockers, a lot of people are just going to change browsers.

Why the hell aren't you on Firefox?

google chrome will suck my balls

In other news: Firefox installs are breaking records.

As if I'll have money for discretionary purchases anyway. Fucking idiots.

Never thought this would be the thing that drove me to degoogled myself, but here we are. I put myself back in an apple silo purely out of spite. Converted all my gmails to other services, like hey.com and tutanota, I PAY a search engine now Kagi.com.

They really burned my soul. Fuck Google.

People keep saying (and corpos keep believing) that normies will just "get used to the ads or pay a premium"

But everybody has a breaking point. People who already dislike it have left chrome or are in the rush to leave. Once people reach this point, they will start asking their more tech savvy friends or the Internet for a better way.

I honestly hope Google will not change its trajectory because sooner or later, people will get fed up with their bullshit.

Hi Firefox. It's been a while..

When making billions isn't enough there is something wrong with you

Everything Google does is evil. How are people still using anything they make—or control the repo for (chromium, android)

Does anyone on lemmy use chrome?

Fire. Fox.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A year later, Google is restarting the phase-out schedule, and while it has changed some things, Chrome will eventually be home to inferior filtering extensions.

Google's blog post says the plan to kill Manifest V2, the current format for Chrome extensions, is back on starting June 2024.

The company says: "We expect it will take at least a month to observe and stabilize the changes in pre-stable before expanding the rollout to stable channel Chrome, where it will also gradually roll out over time.

On the high end now for me, Slack is drinking 500MB, while a single Google Chat tab, created by this company that is so concerned about performance, is at 1.5GB of memory usage.

Google is adding a completely arbitrary limit on how many "rules" content filtering add-ons can include, which are needed to keep up with the nearly infinite ad-serving sites that are out there (by the way, Ars Technica subscriptions give you an ad-free reading experience and make a great holiday gift!).

Mozilla's blog post on the subject promises "Firefox’s implementation of Manifest V3 ensures users can access the most effective privacy tools available like uBlock Origin and other content-blocking and privacy-preserving extensions."

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Google Chrome will limit your digital rights starting June 2024

Wait, not "starting," my bad.

Will this affect chromium based browsers too

Ok, I get all the hate towards google chrome. But pragmatically speaking, will this boost firefox? I feel like even nowadays a ton of people don't even know about adblockers, I'm not sure if they will do the switch to a whole different browser...

It's roughly a month that I switched to firefox on pc and android and I've never been happier!

Talk about misunderstanding your user base... The backlash will be tremendous. I'm considering banning Chrome at work because of the security risk of letting business people use the Internet without the protection of an ad blocker.

chrome keeps locking up my win11 today. posting from ff now, again. gg google

And may they burn

Let see what's happening in a year.. for now everything fine when the time comes then people will have to find a solution but anyway who cares what Google say haha..