I don’t have any chrome extensions because I don’t use chrome. Everyone else should do the same.
chrome just killed Ublock on me and EVERY site is now full of ads… I had no idea how bad it had become! What browser do you suggest?
Firefox or a fork of Firefox.
Speaking of Firefox forks… they’re doing some really cool things with FireDragon and Zen Browser.
Firefox of course.
I’d also suggest their VPN, as its a cheaper mullvad.
The sad thing is that people will see this and still try to find a way to keep using chrome instead of just moving to a browser that actually respects them.
Stop. Using. Chrome.
Firefox is the way.
I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?
They are probably moving to Chrome DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi
Nope. Cloud to Butt still works for me.
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Forgot about cloud to butt. We might need AI to butt with a backwards compatible blockchain to butt nowadays.
For reals please don’t use chrome it’s a terrible browser
One of my co-workers switched to UBlock Lite instead of UBlock Origin and now the ads are back.
Now he’s working on switching to a non-Google browser.
Good job, Google. You have killed Google for yet another former customer.
Firefox or Librewolf are nice.
I like Floorp.
Chrome users are not customers, they’re the product.
OK, then. Killing their product.
Average google then lol
I 'm forced to use Chrome on my work laptop and it is the worst browser (even before the disabling of Manifest V2), but for security I can’t access many systems with even another chromium based browser . Funnily IT forces an extension on us and it isn’t compatible with Manifest V3.
You are not Google’s customer. You’re the product they sell to their customers.
Edit: Made this comment before refreshing the post to see the person above me. What they said.
I’m guessing not since I don’t use google chrome and haven’t for a while.
For crying out loud they’re not just targeting adblockers.
Join [email protected] folks!
This is the list, for those who don’t want to read it. I don’t see Adguard Adblocker on there, surprisingly or SponsorBlock. Besides UBlock Origin, which is a staple extension of mine for all browsers and we’ve long knew about Google’s approach to that. I haven’t seen a lot of what I use/used on here. I don’t even know most of these.
360 Ads Blocker Adblock Fast Awesome Bookmarks Button Block Ads Bookmark All Bookmark It Bookmark Lock Bookmark Manager Speed Dial Bookmark My Tabs Comodo Ad Blocker Comodo Online Security Pro Content Blocker Delicious Bookmark Bar Sync Domain Blocker Ethical AdBlock -- Ad Blocker Fast Bookmark Ghostery Private Search for Chrome Google Ad Blocker Google Privacy Shade Hover Zoom+ Little Bookmark Box Location Guard MalwareAI Browser Security Pinboard Bookmark Bar Sync Popup Fixer Privacy Cleaner Privacy Extension Private Bookmarker Private Bookmarks Simple Site Blocker Touch VPN Trump Blocker TunnelBear Blocker Website Blocker Wikipedia Popup YouTube Anywhere RemotePushbullet is also dead. ☹️
Hasn’t it been dead for years? You can probably get the same functionality with other apps, depending on what you use it for.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long time. I thought it died due to it being a privacy nightmare or something. There was some controversy at least.
I don’t know if it’s related, but an extension we use at work called Redirector was just disabled a few weeks ago for being “unsupported.” It’s the only reason I even used Chrome, so I guess I can go back to Safari. At home I only use Firefox.
- Embrace
- Extend
- Extinguish <<< we are here
XMPP all over again.
Glad that I moved to firefox 4 months ago and then to zen browser last week to avoid plugins removal. Haven’t looked back
So, the elephant in the room is Chrome killing ad-blocking.
I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
As of February:
Chrome: 66.3%
Safari: 17.99%
Edge: 5.33%
Firefox: 2.62%
The software used to view the Web in 2025 is really mostly under the control of either Google or Apple.
Safari on IPhone does have adblocker extensions. So the websites should stop supporting Apple devices as well in order to display ads. This is nearly 20% of users based on your stats.
I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking
An argument could also be made that Firefox and its forks have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue won’t want to deal with the extra work of keeping those users out.
There’s always PiHole to block ads at the network level. It takes some setup and a raspberry pi but it can be one of the cheaper ones. And I’m pretty sure the sites aren’t going to do much more than check the User Agent to get the browser so User Agent Switcher will get around 99% of that.
You could, I suppose, block Firefox in other ways (like maybe checking for some random Chromium feature not yet supported in Firefox) but Firefox isn’t usually far behind Chrome so it would almost take an entire new developer to be effective. And there’s probably ways around that too. (I’m a web developer but have never worked on an ad-supported project and never will so I’m not sure but life finds a way.)
Yep, I have my PiHole running on a Pi2 still.
You’re underestimating these websites though. I already run into sites that arbitrarily throw up a “Firefox not supported” gate until I switch user agents. That will only get worse.
I’m still very concerned about Firefox’s funding majority coming from Google search, especially after the antitrust shutting it down. https://slashdot.org/story/431592
We’re headed for dark times for the open internet.
Is it possible to set up the pihole so certain devices are unfiltered? My partner works in digital marketing and needs to test that her clients’ ads are functional.
Yep. You can just disable filtering for specific devices. Or, if you want to get more granular, you can create device groups with different levels of filtering (including none).
My partner uses Facebook, I don’t. Her phone has Facebook unblocked, but it’s blocked on all our other devices.
As I recall, the answer is yes, as long as you make the Pi your DHCP provider or assign static IP. I was using it in the opposite way to block certain sites from certain devices. But my kids are old enough now that I haven’t done it in a couple of years.
A lot of Firefox users spoof the useragent.
I don’t bother. Most sites I wouldn’t miss at all. There’s only half a dozen or so websites that could force me to take any action on my end.
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Yeah they essentially killed about half the extensions I use. I have to use the browser for work.
I’m just worried about how zdnet presumes to know what I think.
Google kills things, that’s what they do. They can get fucked.
Zen Browser on Mac and Orion on iOS. ublock origin and NextDNS on for both - no ads, no adblocker detected. Ever.
