Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome

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▶Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 01:33:42 No.1024105[Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome.

https://archive.fo/190dp

>Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including ad blockers.

>If the overhaul goes ahead, Adblock Plus and similar plugins that rely on basic filtering will, with some tweaks, still be able to function to some degree, unlike more ambitious extensions, such as uBlock Origin, which will be harder hit.

>In a note posted Tuesday to the Chromium bug tracker, Raymond Hill, the developer behind uBlock Origin and uMatrix, said the changes contemplated by the Manifest v3 proposal will ruin his ad and content blocking extensions, and take control of content away from users.

>Content blockers may be used to hide or black-hole ads, but they have broader applications. They're predicated on the notion that users, rather than anyone else, should be able to control how their browser presents and interacts with remote resources.

▶Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 01:46:24 No.1024111>>1024112 >>1024116

>Following a huge outcry from plugin developers and netizens, Google has reiterated that the proposed changes are not set in stone, and are subject to revision. While the internet goliath wants to rein in the level of access granted to Chrome browser extensions, it is prepared to work through the messy matter with third-party coders -- who will have to rewrite parts of their software if this all goes ahead.

So FUD for now?

▶Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 01:46:55 No.1024112

>>1024111

This is the same thing mozilla said. "We will work with developers." They don't give a fuck, they want to do a rewrite. If you get burned it's because they don't give a fuck about you. If you complain, they'll tell you that 40% of people don't even use addons, and you're lucky they're keeping any at all. You think google is going to be more willing to compromise then mozilla was? Get real.

This is standard marketdroid speak. Deny there is an issue constantly, say that everything will work out just fine if you wait. Then after it happens, they say yes this is an issue but it's too late, it already went through. They want to keep people calm, without having to actually change their business plans. Until they say "every feature of ubo will be supported in their full existing capacity" then I will continue to call bullshit.

Some food for thought: suppose that ubo and other addons used these apis in a way google plans to support in manifest v3. In that case, there would exist a version of these apis that contained whatever changes google wants, but were backwards compatible. Someone in one of threads suggested running the web request filtering code in a vm with restricted run time. That would enable existing addons to continue working, while preventing abuse of the api. Google isn't doing that, because they don't want existing addons to keep working. There are addons they want to break, and they're breaking compat with these apis to do that.

▶Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 01:58:11 No.1024114

This will just push people to network layer solutions like Adguard.

▶Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 01:58:29 No.1024115

Just enable the blocker-blockers then.

▶Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 01:59:07 No.1024116>>1024118

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>>1024111

Fuck them, they're still candy coating it. Developers won't have to "rewrite parts of their code", that's such an ingenuous and slimy way to wave off the issue and paint the developers as being lazy and afraid of change when the reality is Google is wants to give developers no alternative after the api shift. Before you could do x, after you cannot do x at all. You can't just re-write your code and be able to do x again when the entire core goal of the api change was to disallow x.

I read their proposal doc. Google says

>We want developers to fall into a pit of success!

Translation:

<We want developers to fall into a pit.

▶Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 02:03:48 No.1024118>>1024132

>>1024116

When I fall into pits, I don't think to myself "Success!".

More like a pit of shit.

▶Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 02:11:18 No.1024120>>1024565

news: google to remove adblockers from chrome

reddit: 20k upvotes thousands comments

/tech/: thread bumplocked by corrupt mod who got a bribe from google

don't know about you but I am moving to reddit, it has smaller censorship and its less corrupt than this place

▶Anonymous 01/28/19 (Mon) 02:36:51 No.1024132

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>>1024118

Devniggers, Devniggers, Devniggers!

*throws chair*

▶Anonymous 01/29/19 (Tue) 02:04:19 No.1024519

uninstall Chrome, install Tor Browser instead

https://torproject.org

▶Anonymous 01/29/19 (Tue) 05:08:06 No.1024565

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>>1024120

>who got a bribe from google

nah m8 he does it for free

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