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Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers (9to5google.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 90 points 4 months ago (21 children)

So use Firefox! On Android its ad blockers work well too

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  • [–] 66 points 4 months ago (18 children)

    The fact there's extentions on FF & it's forks for mobile makes me sooo blown away anyone ever choses anything else!

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Agree - I just don’t understand why you’d use anything else on a PC.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    100% It's just somehow way more blatant for me with mobile as it's BEEN like this... which propbably helped make Google more confident in doing the same thing with PCs 🤯

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    mobile has forks and adblockers. you can even use brave if you want. ironfox is one firefox, but i stopped using it, because it does something wierd with different websites, and and on reddit where i browse sparingly.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    The forks of Firefox are just as good or better, and largely lack the AI bullshit.

    Firefox is my go-to browser, but don't trust Mozilla and be ready to switch to an alternative just in case Firefox gets enshittified too much.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    "But my cousin told me the fox fire is used by hackers or something, and the Google one said it was faster."

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I shit you not, I used to work for a company (with no IT dept btw) that refused to use Firefox because they said it was "a trojan virus."

    What I think happened is one of their dipshit employees downloaded something they shouldn't have and got a virus and the bosses blamed the browser.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    non tech savy ppl just go with the default.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    In pretty much all of life, the most consistent thing I've learned is that if it's default anything, that off rip should make you reassess it

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    well except in the worst OS ever, iOS, where you can only use the worst web standards compliant webengine for vague security reasons, you know, to keep you safe from yourself

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    You don’t like the OS; ok. Nobody likes the forced usage of the engine. But WebKit being the “worst web standards compliant” is simply not true. It’s maybe the highest on interop and certainly competitive in other ways. I wish there were more WebKit and Gecko; way too much Blink right now. Come on Ladybird and Servo.

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