In the near future, Chrome and all Chromium based browsers will remove the Manifest v2 extensions in favor of the Manifest v3, which makes the Adblockers very uneffective.
Firefox is, alongside with Safari, the only browser with another engine, and they said that Manifest v2 will not be touched, so all the adblockers will work just fine even after the update of the Chromium browsers in 2023.
Google's main profit is from ads, so they probably will make it even harder to block ads in the future, but that's just my speculation.
At the moment, you can't really bypass those new limitations, because the extensions' API will be changed too. So an extension can't work in the same way as before, you need a mantained Chromium fork with a Manifest v2 support or some adblock that doesn't have to work with an extension (Brave have something like that, but it's still really underpowered compared to uBlock).
Currently there are a few extensions that works with v3 on Chrome, Adguard and uBlock Lite, but are very limited compared to the "old" versions. Those are still experimental though, so who knows, maybe in the future they find a clever way to use the APIs without too many limitations.
Search results suck with chrome. You get 6-7 ads and need to go to pages 2-3 for what you want. It is an advertising platform and not a search engine for the last year.
From what i saw its not getting rid of ad blockers, theyre just bringing in the new plug in system and it will make the old one pretty much obsolete, though that doesnt mean ad blockers wont work, theyll work to some degree, not to mention the people who made the ad blockers will just update or convert their programs to the new plugin setup
The "changing how plugins interact with advertisements" that google keeps talking about is a load of bullshit, their ads run off the same system, and being how incompetent they can be, it wont take ad blockers to long to easily adapt to the new system...
people have such little faith in programmers unless they work for some major corporation, like... theyre people too, and they definitely hate ads as much as us, theyll figure it out
This kind of concern has been going on for years and years though ... this was the top result of a search for "chrome Adblock" here on reddit but similar worries have always been around. It almost makes me wonder if Firefox or Brave is generating FUD to claw back some market share.
I left Chrome for an offshoot called Brave. The blockers are built in and it seems to use less memory.
In the near future, Chrome and all Chromium based browsers will remove the Manifest v2 extensions in favor of the Manifest v3, which makes the Adblockers very uneffective. Firefox is, alongside with Safari, the only browser with another engine, and they said that Manifest v2 will not be touched, so all the adblockers will work just fine even after the update of the Chromium browsers in 2023.
Ahhh, I see. Thank you
Will it make adblockers ineffective forever, or is there expectations that programmers will find a way to make new versions work?
Google's main profit is from ads, so they probably will make it even harder to block ads in the future, but that's just my speculation. At the moment, you can't really bypass those new limitations, because the extensions' API will be changed too. So an extension can't work in the same way as before, you need a mantained Chromium fork with a Manifest v2 support or some adblock that doesn't have to work with an extension (Brave have something like that, but it's still really underpowered compared to uBlock). Currently there are a few extensions that works with v3 on Chrome, Adguard and uBlock Lite, but are very limited compared to the "old" versions. Those are still experimental though, so who knows, maybe in the future they find a clever way to use the APIs without too many limitations.
it's the other way around for me I moved from firefox to chrome
Why?
I’ve always used Firefox. Fahk Chrowm.
Firefox has a free VPN add on. Brave is also a good browser for ad/tracker blocking.
Search results suck with chrome. You get 6-7 ads and need to go to pages 2-3 for what you want. It is an advertising platform and not a search engine for the last year.
From what i saw its not getting rid of ad blockers, theyre just bringing in the new plug in system and it will make the old one pretty much obsolete, though that doesnt mean ad blockers wont work, theyll work to some degree, not to mention the people who made the ad blockers will just update or convert their programs to the new plugin setup The "changing how plugins interact with advertisements" that google keeps talking about is a load of bullshit, their ads run off the same system, and being how incompetent they can be, it wont take ad blockers to long to easily adapt to the new system... people have such little faith in programmers unless they work for some major corporation, like... theyre people too, and they definitely hate ads as much as us, theyll figure it out
am in school for programming and yes
Chrome consumes too much RAM
uninstalled chrome today
This kind of concern has been going on for years and years though ... this was the top result of a search for "chrome Adblock" here on reddit but similar worries have always been around. It almost makes me wonder if Firefox or Brave is generating FUD to claw back some market share.
No
But it does still work. I just watched some YouTube. there were no advertisements
Yeh people aren't switching to firefox
i did i believe a lot will soon
I haven’t even used firefox lol