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Firefox encountered a sad (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 85 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Didn't make Chrome Adblockers unusable a while ago? Are 90% of the people now using chrome with ads??

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    somehow, some people can use the net without an adblocker. i have no idea how, but they're out there.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And I'm grateful for these people. If everyone was using adblockers then companies like Google and advertisers would try even harder to break adblockers so it's best if some amount of the population continues to browse without adblockers so I can get ad free access to the internet

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s naive to think they’re not trying as hard as they can. Companies are not allowed to stop going for more, if 99% of all users didn’t block ads, they’d go just as hard after the 1% that did.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure they are not sitting on their hands but if someday it started affecting their profits at a larger level, they'd put far more resources into anti ad block I think than they do now, also Chrome has already made ad blockers difficult to run on chrome which I guess was their endgame, thankfully non chrome based browsers like Firefox and Safari still exist so I'll continue supporting them, hopefully ladybird is also successful

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I see it all the time at work: all the boomers rawdogging the web on Edge, like the company IT department intended.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Ublock origin (for chrome) is gone, but ublock lite is available. Idk what the difference is

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fewer calories!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    uBoL sucks A LOT compared to uBo.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They always were. Chrome on mobile has never supported add-ons, and that's been the main driver of browsing for a while now.

    Desktop Chrome still has ad-blockers, but they're just less effective now, as they can't phone home for faster updates iirc.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The most significant changes was around the webRequest API, used to intercept and modify network requests. uBlock Origin used the API to block unwanted content before it loads. Google killed it because they want to force their ads and tracking on users.

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