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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] Aiastarei@lemmy.world 104 points 2 years ago (6 children)

With Chrome killing ad blocking, they'll quickly care

[–] Shikadi@wirebase.org 183 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Except most people don't use adblock. I don't even know how they live

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I forget that these people exist sometimes. I can’t ever go back to the internet with no ad blockers.

[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You realize the Internet costs money. Those sites don't charge due to advertising. If everyone used ad blocker. There wouldn't be internet.

But blind there

[–] GreyDawn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I suspect they spend most of their time in apps and not surfing the internet. Just a guess really since I saw the mobile traffic exceeded desktop. A lot of people don't spend hours on the "internet" surfing. Tic Tok sure. Hell I'm getting more and more like that. Even when I use chrome I still only go the the same sites for the most part. lol

[–] amenotef@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It could be a good thing. Maybe they won't bother about people blocking ads because they become even less than before.

So maybe you need to pause the ad block a lot less.

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, you met my parents.

I had to install ublock origin on my mother's Chrome because she never would otherwise. Doesn't even know how.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google’s doing a pretty shitty job on that front since uBlock is already prepared with a new version that will work largely the same after the changeover.

[–] Aiastarei@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Do you have a post clarifying how uBlock got prepared? I can't seem to find anything

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

They won't. The vast majority aren't using any kind of ad-blockers in the first place or Google would go out of business.

[–] persolb@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I’m going to use Chrome as long as I can. If they update and break my Adblock extensions (and there isn’t a fix in a day or two from devs), I switch browsers or find some other workaround.

I’m glad people with more ability to avoid the problem are trying to do so proactively (via ad-on updates, alternative browsers, etc)… so I don’t need to worry about an ‘escape route’… because I know there will be one.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The plan to deprecate Chrome V2 extensions has been constantly postponed again and again for years now. There is NO SCHEDULED DATE for this to happen currently, and when it is announced it will be more than 6 months out.

Source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ?pli=1

If Google really wanted to kill ad blockers, they would have done this years ago.

They don't. They want to force ad blockers and other similar extensions to use more efficient APIs that don't slow down the web. Extension developers overall (not just ad blockers) aren't happy with the changes, so they're still working on the APIs.

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

IIRC the original cutoff date was supposed to be this summer (or possibly winter).

Not surprised you’re being downvoted but definitely disappointed seeing it.