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Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 3 months ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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uBlock Origin will soon stop functioning in Chrome as Google transitions to new browser extension rules.

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[–] Mio@feddit.nu 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Block Chrome and use anything not Chrome based. In other words use Firefox.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But Firefox is about to loose it's funding because google is a monopoly lol

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Firefox is open source. It's not going anywhere; even if Mozilla Co. goes broke and closes down the Mozilla Foundation.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

Sure. But loosing the money to fund development surely won't help, will it? My point is that there is a real danger here. There are other forces at play which is why you have the chrome dominance already. Long term firefox will fall behind if not maintained. There really needs to be a push to finance firefox or alternatives.

Or imagine if more and more websites "require" some new web protocol to prevent ad blocking, or use of DMCA against browsers or addons altering websites as "web apps". This is another problem that cannot be solved through individual responsibility.

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So Google is a monopoly and removing funding to Firefox will help them not to be a monopoly? That does not sound right. Rather the opposite.

Nothing has been decided or done yet. Most likely they will just be forced to not abuse their position, for example make ads for it on www.google.com, don't bundle Chrome with Android and such things.

I believe there will always be an alternative to Chrome available as the Open Source community will find a way together.