Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome.

[Mave]

Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including various ad blockers.


Adblock Plus will most likely not be affected, though similar third-party plugins will, for reasons we will explain. The drafted changes will also limit the capabilities available to extension developers, ostensibly for the sake of speed and safety. Chromium forms the central core of Google Chrome, and, soon, Microsoft Edge.


In a note posted Tuesday to the Chromium bug tracker, Raymond Hill, the developer behind uBlock Origin and uMatrix, said the changes contemplated by the Manifest v3 proposal will ruin his ad and content blocking extensions, and take control of content away from users.



Source and more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/

Thank the lord for Firefox.

 

[Mauri]

What I've heard is that Firefox is going towards Chromium build as well or something like that, meaning FF will also become shit eventually.

I personally use ungoogled-chromium, also I've been testing GNU IceCat as well.

 

[Mave]

What I've heard is that Firefox is going towards Chromium build as well or something like that, meaning FF will also become shit eventually.

I personally use ungoogled-chromium, also I've been testing GNU IceCat as well.

I believe you mean Edge, Microsoft is switching to Chromium: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/

 

[Mauri]

Oh I see, my bad then.