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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 5 months ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 82 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

what i don't get is all the people complaining about google and at the same time using their browser...

i believe that trying to steer masses away from chrome would be more useful in the long run than trying to make it work

[-] mtpender@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago

Just use Firefox

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

I use FF as my primary browser on my desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.

As much as I love and support FF and the Mozilla Foundation, I find that some websites simply need a Chromium-based browser to function properly. It's frustrating as hell.

I wonder how many people tried FF, had their favourite site stop working, and then switched back to Chrome.

[-] bw1faeh0@feddit.de 12 points 5 months ago

Until now I never had issues with Firefox.

But here in Germany the fanbase of ff ist larger. Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?

That's an interesting observation. I'm not sure, since I'm in Canada.

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago

If you properly use firefox personalised the way you want it, it gives you shitty unusable websites in Europe too. Banking says no, newspapers being buggy to unreadable with certain script blocking or cookie refusal, disable adblock to continue windows etc, it all exists here too. I always try ff. If really needed I open the shitty site in edge and afterwards return to ff... Also public (tax payer funded!) flemish radio and tv for example is completely unusable in ff with proper settings, works "perfect" in edge or chrome. German and Dutch public TV and radio works fine in ff tho.