Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 month ago

    Why wouldn’t you just use something like Firefox? Why the actual fuck would you opt to continue using Chrome?

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      1 month ago

      They might simply prefer it, or be in an environment where they have no choice (e.g. office, education).

      I’m a stubborn Firefox user but I have to say, this feels a little aggressive and not at all likely to convince anyone to switch.

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        1 month ago

        So you’re saying they’d be allowed to sideload a discontinued chrome extension onto their work laptop but not allowed to download another legitimate browser? Yea…not buying it. Same with an educational setting. Pretty sure the person I reaponded to just simply is used to Chrome and doesn’t want change (which I do understand.)

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      11 month ago

      I stripped it from all google crap, extra features, etc. Then the features I want I added in using an extension I wrote and maintain myself

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      -11 month ago

      Why would you use a browser like firefox when you could use brave which has built in ad blocks which firefox has not

      • @kakito69
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        11 month ago

        You realize that Brave is Chromium and the „built in Adblock” is renamed ublock origin?

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          Yes I know that but firefox is lacking features. An old chromium browser on mobile has the same amount of points in benchmarks as the newest firefox on desktop