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Starting June 2024, adblockers such as uBlock Origin and many other extensions on Chrome will no longer work as intended. Google Chrome will begin disabling extensions based on an older extension platform, called Manifest V2, as it moves to the more limited V3 version.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (12 children)

Fortunately, this is mitigated by not using Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

This is the way

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago (10 children)

"Security", haha yeah right

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago

The security of their cash flow.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Literally my reaction when I saw that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

they obviously mean their financial security.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The security of their profits

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My ad blocker is part of my security.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Not your security, silly. Their security (financial).

[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A push for ~~security~~ revenue

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, weird. Using an ad-blocker is basic security advice at this point because Google and other ad companies don't vet their advertisers properly, so malware or phishing often makes its way into ads. But yes, believe Google's lies and stop using an ad-blocker for "security reasons". Honestly, these shitty big tech corporations should just go fuck themselves.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They mean ad revenue security

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

Some speculate this is an intentional move by Google due to suspected loss of ad-revenue. We don’t know

Oh, we know. It may technically qualify as speculation, but we know.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

This reads like "gun makers softens triggers on guns to improve gun safety" or "baby formula makers poison baby food to build up babies' tolerance to poisoned baby food"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The FBI recommends that everyone use an adblocker as part of their basic security toolkit.

If your browser vendor has a problem with that, switch to a different browser.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was about to comment on this, but my Android phone spontaneously rebooted.

Anyway. Before I was so rudely interrupted, I was about to say: Firefox. It is a thing. An awesome thing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

By sheer coincidence I am sure, YouTube (a Google subsidiary) just started "accidentally" degrading their performance on Firefox but not Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Totally reads like an Onion headline.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Yeah, malware is often distributed via ads. They also track+expose information that could be used for spear phishing, identity theft and so on, if it falls into the wrong hands. So, ad blocking is certainly recommended for security.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's funny. Seeing this post was the catalyst for me to finally set Firefox as the default browser on my phone and start using it daily. Going to set it up on my work laptop tomorrow too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also stop using Google as your search engine, there are much better options like DuckDuckGo. You can also use Startpage if you like Google search results, it's a meta search engine that pulls everything from Google without exposing you to Google tracking.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As if you get actual results with google now days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not perfect but much better than Google

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Ad blockers: 1, Google: 0

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is with the headline. We all know that is untrue - it's about Mr Do-no-evil's bottom line.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What a messed up title.

The one and only reason they are doing this is to boost ad revenue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That they even mention the word "security" in this is a farce.

It's still as insecure as ever, since a malicious plugin can simply spy on and report on your usage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

They meant their (financial) security, not ours.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I handle all that at the router!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Yeah it doesn't get everything, but it gets the vast majority of stuff and I'm ok with that. I've been working hard at pulling down the videos I want from YouTube and uploading them to my peertube instance so I don't need to use YouTube directly anymore most of the time.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

"We wanna weaken ad blockers because ~~we like money~~ of security."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

a little tweak of title:

"Google to weaken adblockers on Chrome in a push for ad revenue security."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Whenever Google or Apple do something that affects your experience in the name of security then.... RUN

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I will NEVER touch Chrome. If I MUST I will use Chromium once in a long ass while. Otherwise, fuck off your bullshit spying CIA/FBI/etc. website.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Does this make the company look good or bad? Does this hurt or help their brand?

They need to fix google search. Relevant results are the keywords.

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