Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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Reminder to switch browsers if you haven't already!

Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.

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Laughs in Firefox

How long until the majority of the Internet is inaccessible to non-Chromium browsers because the pages "don't support them"?

Honestly the way the internet is going do you need access to the majority of the internet? I feel like its pretty dead as it is now already.

Lemmy will still work because we mostly use Firefox, and i bet the same will hold true for many others.

Basically the moment mainstream internet becomes google only you will see nerds build new websites specifiably to cater to the non google crowd and i trust random internet nerds a hack of a lot more than a monopoly corporation.

BRING IT ON GOOGLE!, YOU CAN INITIATE THE PUSH TO CREATE A NEW BETTER INTERNET. ^Create demand for freedom trough your suppressive enforments^

Oh yeah nothing bad could ever happen from effectively removing an entire section of the population from certain parts of the Internet completely.

I can't imagine that ever going badly.

That's already the case. Facebook etc have been walled gardens (or prisons if you prefer) for decade and a half now.

If it don't work on Firefox I won't use it. There are better FOSS options anyways

Sure as long as it's not my bank or my employer or the gov official website for accessing my taxes...

I would close my bank account and such to a different bank. It takes literally 5 minutes to open one online.

And yes, I would not work for a company that doesn't support Firefox

I would also keep pestering support of the government website, that one I will have to give to you

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I don't think that's going to be the case. People will find workarounds. The whole point of these alternative browsers is to use the web in whatever way the developers think their user base wants to use it. If the web is inaccessible to non-chromium browsers then people will spoof their browser to the site to look like a chromium browser.

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Then I guess people will use the web less and less.

I remember the "works best on IE" warnings of old, looks like we might be heading back there.

This is getting more common. Whatever dev accepted that when sizing the story should hang their head in shame. “No, you don’t size for a poor solution, you size for a good solution and let the PMs chip at the things they understand, keeping some things sacrosanct”.

For this reason, we must still take a stand against this stuff.

They do some now, but user agent switcher gets me to all of those with no problem.

It is not that simple. These are cat and mouse games. Whack a mole. Whatever you'd like to say.

If I can't access a site with firefox, i won't deal with online. I'll call them and waste an employee's time, or send payment in the mail. I'm not using chrome or an app and i don't care.

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