Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      It’s not like they contracted some sort of terminal illness. Anyone can migrate whenever. It’s not hard.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        I believe that some organizations restrict what applications can be installed on work computers, so that might not necessarily be true, at least for work machines.

  • mke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    I think lots of people are overestimating how many will migrate to Firefox in the near future over this.

    • High switching cost compared to finding another extension (e.g. uBO Lite), even if the resulting experience is worse.
    • Just as some Firefox users like Firefox, many Chrome users enjoy what they have too. They don’t want to lose that.
    • The kind of tech-aware person who’d switch over this is much more likely to have seen the news months ago and taken action already.

    As fun as it is to imagine an Adpocalypse shocking the masses and getting them to try out alternatives to big tech, it’s also way too optimistic, I feel.

    • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, same with people here declaring the death of reddit, or Twitter, or any of these massive, mainstream services. People in bubbles (and Lemmy is definitely a bubble) always seem to underestimate how little everyone else cares or even knows about the things that are important to them. The service needs to be extremely bad in a user experience way, not an ethical way, for an extended period of time and there needs to be a big social movement where lots of people migrate to a direct and equivalent competitor within a short space of time. Most people will not do it on their own, they will wait until they see their peers doing it and only then can a migration start to snowball.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        “Netflix will die when they ban account sharing!!” - Reddit/Lemmy/Techtubers

        Netflix actually went on to have a massive jump in revenue, because most normal people can’t be arsed to set up a Plex/Emby/Jellyfin server and buy a shitload of storage.

    • experbia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      I agree folks are overestimating how many will switch. but also maybe you’re underestimating too - a lot of browser installations are managed by the “family tech guy”. the father, mother, brother, sister, aunt or uncle who sets up everyone’s new laptops on Christmas and has the suggestions when you look for a new phone. we all know the type. a lot of us are the type.

      setting up granny’s laptop? I’ll install whatever browser lets me automatically block the most “1000th visitor!” banner ads and change the desktop icon to the old AOL icon because that’s all she knows the internet as. she doesn’t know of care about the browser options so it’s up to me. Chrome used to be fast and simple so it was the right choice. Firefox has caught up a fair bit on UX simplicity and speed and now offers better blocking and general security, so it just stole the crown for these installations imo. I trust it more to not let her mess the computer up, so even if I’m not using it as my main personal browser, it gets use here.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    Stop using Chrome, it is adware at this point. Use Firefox or if that’s too different, use Brave or Edge or a different chromium offshoot that isn’t going to support manifest v3.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    3 months ago

    This headline is premature. They haven’t pulled the plug yet. I still have Chrome installed, fully updated, and all the extensions are still there.

  • CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    It deserves mentioning that Firefox on Android supports extensions, so if you uninstall/disable the official YouTube app then add uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock you get a more tolerable experience.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Or just use Revanced or Grayjay, both of which are ad free and support sponsor block. Revanced is still a bit more feature complete imo, but also more buggy on my device, and more of a hassle to update. The browser YouTube experience is so bad, ads or ad free.

  • faethon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    At this point I am seriously wondering why people would like to use Chrome over Firefox for instance.

    • rooster_butt@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      Because I use chrome for standard use and Firefox for sailing the high seas. And I much prefer just having 2 separate browsers for containerization. I’m just going to have to use librewolf or something when I do get the the mv3 update.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        Why not just use something like Fences on Firefox? It allows you to containerize individual tabs. I use it all the time to separate work and personal accounts.

        • rooster_butt@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Does this allow you enable/disable add-ons on a per container basis? What about bookmarks?

      • ruabmbua@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Back in the day when I still used windows, I did not even use IE to download Firefox. I used the FTP functionality inside the explorer to download Firefox from the Mozilla FTP.

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      I use multiple profiles in chrome for my different logged in usages, for some reason Firefox makes it hard to switch profiles.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        0·
        3 months ago

        “Hard” is a strong word. It’s not built into the default interface, granted, but it’s not that hard to use FF’s command line: firefox -P

        They have said they’re thinking about rejigging the whole thing though.

        • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          3 months ago

          Ok, telling people to open a command line and TYPE firefox -P is HARD. In chrome you just click the icon in the upper right and select whatever profile you want.

          It makes no sense that you have to either open about:profiles then select “launch in new window” or open the command line to start a new profile, makes NO sense at all.

          You can open a firefox private window with a keyboard shortcut, but if you want to be logged into two different accounts in two different profiles, you have to go through a minimum of three non-intuitive steps.

          Even the extension that adds the profile switching doesn’t work anymore because it’s not maintained.

          • palordrolap@fedia.io
            1·
            3 months ago

            Dude, if that’s all-caps HARD, then I don’t know how you’d classify, say, compiling things from source and fixing any problems that might crop up along the way. Or fixing missing DLL / OCX hell when trying to get an old Windows game running under Linux, because let me tell you, I’ve done both of those and had to give up. firefox -P is heaven by comparison.

            You could even put it into a shortcut and you wouldn’t have to type it any more.

            Yes the interface sucks, but HARD is not it.

  • idefix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    There’s only 34 million uBlock Origin users on Chrome? So, billions are using Chrome without any ad-blockers? That’s crazy and unsafe

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Most users are fucking idiots and will continue to raw-dog the internet while visiting the most malicious sites possible.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Lemmy has a really biased idea of what the average computer user can do. Imagine Janet in accounting, who calls help desk to reset her password every morning, and takes 30 minutes to remember how to check her email. Or the late GenZ just entering the workforce, who was surprised that their desktop wasn’t a touchscreen, and doesn’t know how a file structure works, because literally every device they’ve used growing up has been either a tablet or a Chromebook. That’s the average user.

    • alphabethunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      My boss once asked me to take a look at her computer that was super slow and barely functional, and the thing that surprised me the most was that she had been running Chrome without any adblock since ever, and when I asked her about adblock, she answered: “adwhat?”. Mind you that she’s still a millennial, and only a few years older than me.