Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers

• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With this change, extensions can “only” alter/inspect/redirect/block 30,000 domains if they use the webRequest API. That’s not enough to build uBlock Origin with, but at least there’s limit now.

  That seems like an arbitrary number.

  Remember, politicians don’t pass racist laws by directly saying they are excluding PoC into the law. They do it by targeting commonalities that happen to apply to PoC.

  Google isn’t going to flat-out say they are blocking uBlock Origin. They are going to do it by implementing “security features” that just so happen to target only uBlock Origin.

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• coffeetest@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “For the security” is starting to sound a lot like “for the children”. I hope this works out better than secure boot. When these new ideas emerge that have, let’s call them, “side effects” like disabling ad-blockers or preventing Linux from being installed I am suspicious.

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      if google cared, they’d vet ads and ad links, and guarantee their safety and security.

      if google cared, they’d put a stop to seo ‘optimizers’ and scammers scoring top positions on serps.

      but google doesn’t care about anything other than their profits and share price.

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• BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the most succinct, unbiased explanation I’ve seen for this change. Thank you for this! It’s good to know there’s an unintended security improvement in their otherwise brazen attempt to kill ad blockers on Chrome.

  Fuck Google.

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