Google is cracking down on ad blockers, but here's how you can fight back
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It’s entirely possible to be illegally anti-competitive while giving shit away for discount/free.
Advertising has completely gutted the news and information ecosystems to the point that every site is a rage-click race to the bottom.
I block and/or avoid advertising everywhere I can. Ergo consider me an extreme case. But I note that television advertising ("TVbiz") is observably less toxic than the WWW/social-media ad business ("WSbiz").
TVbiz has its darker side, of course. And "smart TVs" can take screenshots and do unwanted things if connected to the Internet. All undocumented.
But WSbiz is at a whole new level and scale of toxic ecosystem.
Yeah. Just use Safari, Firefox or Edge. I did not use Chrome for years now.
https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock
For me, Firefox and uBlock Origin on Linux and on Android both block 99-100% of ads.
People are really so stuck on Chrome that they don't see other options that are just as viable if not better infront of their eyes (Firefox, Safari).
It needn’t be primary to be important. If iOS didn’t enforce Safari, we’d see a lot more “only works in Chrome” signs on sites and “emerging standards” would be added to Chrome without much chance of Firefox keeping pace.
Apple’s motivations are hardly pure, but as a FF user I’m glad iOS has the market share it does.
Works fine for basic ads but more tracking goes through, which is silly.
„Google’s new rules will likely affect all Chromium browsers, including Chrome and Microsoft Edge (a support page from Microsoft shows that Edge is losing access to the Web Request API).“
Safari: I would love to use it, but Apple moved all plugins to the AppStore and killed the ecosystem.
I also encounter way too many bugs and weird behaviours in Firefox web dev tools. I hate chromium dev tools too, but I find it a more consistent bad experience.
The closest I've been to fully switching has been Zen browser. The ability to completely hide the browser's UI so you only see it when hovering is almost good enough to forget all other issues I got with Firefox. That "focus mode", vertical tabs, and side-panels, are the best UI elements to come to browsers since tabs, and I hope and expect all browsers copy them soon enough.
(edit: sorry you were not talking about bugs, was confusing with another reply in this thread)
That is probably the biggest reason most people stay with Chrome. When Google created their browser and did their big global campaign they got most people used to using their browser, and now it's hard for people to move away from it, so they can make changes to the browser that are profiting for them.
It's up to the end user to decide if it wants Google to guide their internet browsing experience, or that it rather joins a more open and independent community.
Then again, Brave is an advertisement company, same as Google. And the CEO is Brendan Eich, notorious for two very evil and despicable things: being homophobic and creating JavaScript.
The hard-core of Google excellence will remain, by that name or another. It was called DEC (and Bell) before, and it will be called something in a decade.
These institutions have been so kind as to rebrand themselves when they went from excellent to awful: Google became Alphabet, Facebook became Meta, Twitter became X, OpenAI became, whatever they’re going to call the awful thing.
You fight back by waiting, and by voting for people who won’t fire Lina Khan.
She has support from across the gamut: Bernie and Elizabeth Warren as well as Matt Gaetz and Josh Hawley https://www.notus.org/republicans/biden-official-lina-khan-f...