Chrome may soon break Ad-Blockers

[Amazonsucks]

Malwarebytes Anti Exploit used to shield Chrome by default, but similar changes made them stop. That by itself made many computers vulnerable while the owners think they have explout mitigations protecting their Chrome.

 

You can still create a custom Chrome.exe shield but thanks to these upcoming changes on Google's part, that wont work for long. When that happens IE will be safer to use than Chrome

 

These changes are very anti consumer, which is typical of Google's insane management.

[GoldenLag]

if google doesnt like something:

 

1. make changes that break that thing (example: Edge's lower power Playback)
2. Deny app developers to support said thing. 
3. flood it and take over it and make it like google. 

[suicidalfranco]

enters Pi-Hole

 

The no stresses solution that not only makes your browsing habits better but also your mobile app consumption gets better.

Get it now while they're hot.

[chazragg]

wonder how this will affect projects like brave browser?. if this code gets pushed to the chromium repo are they forced to use it or could they edit it out? 

[Yongtjunkit]

Wow , anyway for me to download an old version of chrome that doesn’t block adblockers? 

[porina]

1 hour ago, suicidalfranco said:

enters Pi-Hole

 

The no stresses solution that not only makes your browsing habits better but also your mobile app consumption gets better.

Get it now while they're hot.

Been thinking of moving to this type of solution for a while. Would you rate it as easy to use, effective and doesn't break sites you do want to work?

[MoonSpot]

2 hours ago, Kamina said:

Then I'll just migrate.

Already gave up the google search engine for duckduckgo. 

 

....

It does seem to work better.

[Guest]

4 hours ago, mr moose said:

This is about it, I'm so glad people were pleased that MS were forced to adopt the chromium path.  Because another independent option is always a bad thing right?

I may be wrong but... Anyone can fork and modify an open source browser, that includes supporting a deprecated API's, I've seen that happen on other open source projects, so.....

What's even the point of that? One can make a monopoly of what they want, but that software has an open source license
This would apply only on the Google Chrome browser, and presumably into the MS one which will probably be proprietary (Chromium has a BSD license so they can do that) 

[mr moose]

5 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

I may be wrong but... Anyone can fork and modify an open source browser, that includes supporting a deprecated API's, I've seen that happen on other open source projects, so.....
 

I can't, so I am limited to what's available.

[Ashleyyyy]

6 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

I may be wrong but... Anyone can fork and modify an open source browser, that includes supporting a deprecated API's, I've seen that happen on other open source projects, so.....

What's even the point of that? One can make a monopoly of what they want, but that software has an open source license
This would apply only on the Google Chrome browser, and presumably into the MS one which will probably be proprietary (Chromium has a BSD license so they can do that) 

well google chrome is based on an open-source browser, that being chromium. AFAIK google chrome isn't open-source.

[Ashleyyyy]

well i guess i'll just use FireFox then. that kinda sucks because chrome is faster in my experience... but oh well. 

[Guest]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

well google chrome is based on an open-source browser, that being chromium. AFAIK google chrome isn't open-source.

I infact said that applies only to Google Chrome which is what the majority uses, but chromium is really close to it

[Misanthrope]

4 hours ago, mr moose said:

This is about it, I'm so glad people were pleased that MS were forced to adopt the chromium path.  Because another independent option is always a bad thing right?

Did you just call Microsoft, the guys who came up with the idea of killing independent browser options an independent browser option?

[mr moose]

1 minute ago, Misanthrope said:

Did you just call Microsoft, the guys who came up with the idea of killing independent browser options an independent browser option?

No, I called edge an independent browser, because it is not the same a FF or chrome.  At least it was different from chrome.  

[Donut417]

So whats to stop some one from using a PiHole setup instead? Hell this goes in to affect Ill just buy a Raspberry Pi and get Pi Hole going. 

[duncannah]

If firefox wasn't so shit then I would switch

[Misanthrope]

1 hour ago, mr moose said:

No, I called edge an independent browser, because it is not the same a FF or chrome.  At least it was different from chrome.  

It cannot be independent at all if it depends on an entity like Microsoft which is the same as Google: just trying (But unlike Google, failing) to get people into the Windows 10 ecosystem one way or another.

 

That is like the fucking opposite of independent.

[mr moose]

13 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

It cannot be independent at all if it depends on an entity like Microsoft which is the same as Google: just trying (But unlike Google, failing) to get people into the Windows 10 ecosystem one way or another.

 

That is like the fucking opposite of independent.

You know what the word independent means don't you?  Edge was a browser independent of chromium. But now it will be written based on it it is no longer going to bee independent. Just because it was written by MS doesn't change that. We now have one less option for a browser independent of google.

[JoostinOnline]

Everyone is talking about "going back to Firefox" but I honestly never understood the appeal of Chrome.

[HarryNyquist]

7 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

Everyone is talking about "going back to Firefox" but I honestly never understood the appeal of Chrome.

Yea. I used it for a while but switched when Firefox Quantum dropped. I was shocked at how much RAM Firefox DOESN'T use compared to Chrome.

 

The WebExtensions crap is a different story, but at least it still allows uBlock to work...

[porina]

9 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

Everyone is talking about "going back to Firefox" but I honestly never understood the appeal of Chrome.

People will have different reasons for switching browsers. Before moving to Chrome, I was a FF user. What made me look at moving was two fold. At the time, FF was still single threaded, so its performance sucked. Also, every version update, they moved the UI around, and I'm not sure if they're baked in or add-ins, but there were often new things I just didn't want or care about. The only reason I stuck with them so long was the FF implementation of ABP was much better than the Chrome version. It wasn't until I tried ublock origin that I found something I like as much as ABP on FF.

 

If ublock origin were to stop working, I'm not sure what I would do. There was the earlier suggestion of a network level block, but I'll have to see how that works in practice. I could revert back to ABP, maybe it has got better since I last used it. Likewise FF. 

[yian88]

Im actually surprised google didnt do this a decado ago since they make most of their money from ads, im surprised it lasted this llong before they started cracking down on adblockers.

As long as we have alternative browsers we are fine , as long as chrome is OS others can build browsers without those changes patches, opera/vivaldi etc. Last resort is firefox, although its really slow and not so pleasant i despise the html5 and css all websites implemented it made the web browsing so slow.

[pipnina]

3 hours ago, MoonSpot said:

....

It does seem to work better.

Hate to break it to ya

10 minutes ago, yian88 said:

Im actually surprised google didnt do this a decado ago since they make most of their money from ads, im surprised it lasted this llong before they started cracking down on adblockers.

As long as we have alternative browsers we are fine , as long as chrome is OS others can build browsers without those changes patches, opera/vivaldi etc. Last resort is firefox, although its really slow and not so pleasant i despise the html5 and css all websites implemented it made the web browsing so slow.

Chrome is not open source, Chromium is.

Also Firefox is not slow any more. Hasn't been since late 2017 and it's been improving since. Massive backend redesign.

[Blademaster91]

37 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

Everyone is talking about "going back to Firefox" but I honestly never understood the appeal of Chrome.

Yeah, I tried Chrome for a bit and didn't like that it used so much more RAM and I didn't notice any difference in loading sites.  And everyone complaining Firefox is slow probably haven't used it in a while.

[RejZoR]

I have no clue why people use Chrome turd in the first place... It's literally the worst browser design wise and to top it up it's Google's privacy nightmare. And as predicted, they dominated the market by relentlessly pushing it and then clamping down on other ad providers, shilling only their own. Well, I hope this adblock fiasco will backfire monumentally and people will move to Firefox (and Opera). I wonder how it'll be for Opera with their integrated AdBlock...

 

Anyway, I've been on Opera for like 2 years and now I've returned to Firefox because it's now supporting password managers on Android. I'll stay with Firefox for sure.