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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wonder what would happen if µBlockOrigin was just pulled from the Chrome Webstore. Would that drive people to other browsers?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's uBO Lite, which is an MV3 version so one step towards making adblockers less useful as Google planned.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Many people have said they have switched already and have said it works without issues (as far as they know). I'm sure there is a huge amount of sites and configs that didn't make it into the lite version, I guess we'll find out when a huge userbase refuses to migrate from chrome and installs the uBo-lite

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    37 million Chrome users have downloaded Ublock Origin (if that isn't including duplicate downloads/multiple accounts on one user).

    5.3 billion people use the internet. 307 million in the U.S. as of 2022... what is that, 10% of Americans using Chrome using adblock? Less?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So max 37M users possibly willing to switch away from Chrome should it not be available anymore. Not nothing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    8.2% isn't nothing but I also wonder if it's worth anything to Google. That would bring Firefox from ~3.3% to 11.5% of the browser market share if everyone switched to non-chromium browsers.

    I just wonder if that's enough for anything. It's better than nothing of course, and for those users that switch there's almost nothing but benefits, It's more just that I have doubts about the willingness of the general public caring enough, and if 10% of people will have an effect for Firefox or against Google

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    IMO ~+10%pt just provide Google with a thicker armor against antitrust lawsuits. "Hey hey hey, can't sue us! We have a competitor with ~15% of the market! And we helped them get there! Look at the 500 million we give them per year!".

    If Mozilla wanted to be a threat to Google, IMO they could, but they'd rather pay their CEO 5M, fire a few hundred engineers, and spend a fraction of their Google money on Firefox.

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