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[–] 533 points 2 years ago (14 children)

I'm warning Google that Google Chrome may soon be disabled on my devices.

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

    It already is on mine, no trace of chromium or it's forks.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Discord, slack, bitwarden, steam, Microsoft teams, visual studio code, balena etcher . Anyone else know of any electron apps or heavily modified version of chrome?😄

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Teams has switched to Microsoft's own edition of the same concept, "Edge WebView2". Now that Edge is just being Chrome wearing a rubber Scooby Doo mask, I don't expect the differences are vast.

    Another fun iteration is Plex's desktop client, which uses QtWebEngine... however surprise! still the Chromium engine underneath.

    Signal's desktop app is plain old Electron though.

    Of the ones on your list, worth noting that Discord and Slack work fine with FirefoxPWA.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    What pisses me off is how many websites don't work right with Firefox now. There's been several times where I've had issues with a site functioning on Firefox and had to switch to a chromium browser.

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    Saying this about any corporation's product is guaranteed not to age well.

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    [–] 233 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    meanwhile firefox lists it as recommended and also lets you use it on firefox mobile.

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  • [–] 130 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Google needs to be broken up by government.

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    [+] 127 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)
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    [–] 113 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    IT guys will stop using it...

    Which means they'll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won't ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward.

    Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS.

    Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol.

    I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run.

    You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.

    Unfortunately it's a bigger problem.

    Google doesn't plan to block uBlock Origin itself, but the APIs it uses to integrate into Chrome in order to function. This will effectively disable all adblockers on Chrome. uBlock won't be removed from the Chrome extension store, it will just have 90% of its functionality removed.

    Additionally, this isn't a Chrome-only change, but a change in the open source Chromium, an upstream browser of Chrome all other Chrome-based browsers use (essentially everything aside from Firefox and Safari themselves).

    The change itself is involved in changing the browser's "Manifest", a list of allowed API calls for extensions. The current one is called Manifest v2 and the new one was dubbed Manifest v3.

    Theorethically Chromium-based browsers could "backport" Manifest v2 due to the open source nature of Chromium. However that is unlikely as it's projected to take a lot of resources to change, due mostly to security implications of the change.

    Vendors of other Chromium-based browsers themselves have little to gain from making the change aside from name recognition for "allowing uBlock", which most users either wouldn't care for or already use Firefox, so the loss for Google isn't projected to be large, just as the gains for other vendors.

    TLDR: uBlock won't be removed from the Chrome extension store, but the mechanisms through which it blocks ads will be blocked. The block isn't a change in Chrome but in Chromium and affects all Chromium-based brosers (all except Firefox and Safari). Other vendors could change that to allow adblockers but it's projected to take a lot of time and resources.

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    [–] 108 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Thank you Google I hope shitty moves like this drives enough people away to better browsers like Firefox. It desperately needs a bigger market share.

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    [–] 96 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    So, what they're saying is: Chrome will have severely decreased functionality and users will no longer be able to protect themselves from sketchy ads that contain scams, malware, and other nefarious bullshit (often hosted on Google's own ad networks)?

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    [–] 92 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sadly I'm far more attached to ad blocking than I am to a browser.

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    [–] 90 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That’s a funny way to say “you should uninstall chrome rather than leaving it unused” but I hear you Google. 🫡

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    [–] 89 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

    Yeah, we saw this coming. When Manifest v3 first talked about.

    Google an ad company are killing ad blockers. Yeah, that sounds right.

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    [–] 84 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    The modern Internet is completely unusable without an ad blocker. Way to remake ie6, Google!

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    [–] 68 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    ...Oh, no! Anyway. Just giving people one more reason to finally make the switch to Firefox or something different.

    Google Chrome warns about disabling uBlock Origin. I warn Google Chrome that they're being a little bitch & they're going to lose users.

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    [–] 66 points 2 years ago

    Sounds like another reason not to use Chrome.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Could turn out to be a good thing. All power users will dump Chrome practically overnight, a huge boon to the alternatives, that could actually give them enough momentum to compete with Google for a change. I'm sure they've considered this, probably an empty treat.

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago

    Thanks for reaffirming why I refuse to use Chrome.

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

    I'm using Firefox or forks.

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago

    Oh no uses Firefox Anyway....

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    They started putting ads in Windows, a few users switched, but most still continue Windows.

    Google will roll this out and a few users will switch, but most will just keep using Chrome.

    We've already established that most users don't seem to care.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago

    Good riddance then. Fuck chrome

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    I rlly hate how some sites don't work on Firefox

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

    I'm showing my age, but back when IE was basically the only browser and Firefox (Firebird back then) launched, people often lamented that things didn't work in Firefox. The solution? People used Firefox and web developers were forced to make their shit work in Firefox. When Chrome came out, suddenly we had three real options and the way to make everything work? Open Standards.

    Now, Chrome is in the position IE was back before Firefox came around. How ever will we make sure things work in Firefox??? Use Firefox. If enough people dump Google's malware browser, the web has to go back to supporting multiple browsers through open standards.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago

    I guess it's a good thing I'm on Firefox now instead of Chrome.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Glad I have firefox as well but also looking forward to a cool new project called Ladybird. https://ladybird.org

    Not sure if its the right one but glad there are more projects out there trying to jump into the game. (I know extensions are a long way off for it but i see it as hope.)

    Also please consider running pihole or adguard home. Or any other full home DNS add blocker. It will help.

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    Google Chrome is about to be disabled? Got it.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Let this be my warning to Google that I will never go back to their browser when they do. Challas! ✌️

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    Google sneezes and your future is stolen by an ad that's selling it back to you. Google is too big to exist.

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