Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser

Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by CoryG89 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:37PM (#14153513)

I always suspected the reason we never got extensions in mobile Chrome is that they didn't want the ad blockers. I wasn't aware that Firefox mobile started supporting them. Going to give it a try.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by bobajeff on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:56AM (#14157193)

Just want to point out that's there is a really old issue for this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113111

It's been assigned to some unknown person since 2015.

Though I'm not so sure the reason for it's delay in coming to Android isn't technical rather than organizational.

Brave for Android is based off of Chromium and it didn't have extensions either.

It sounds like the way extension APIs were initially implemented didn't lend itself to a Android port.

"We never had the Android version compiling with extension support in the first place - in our early development internally, we hacked/commented/disabled random parts of extension code just to get the binary to compile, and we later tidied this up to disable extensions in a neater way to save binary size. So, you are basically talking about actually implementing extension support for android from scratch, including adding every thing that extensions require but aren't currently implemented for Android. This isn't likely to be especially easy. " - https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/chr...

Though I don't understand why since Firefox mobile extensions are based off a similarly designed system (Jetpack) to Chromes.

It seems that if nothing else they could create a new API for extensions on Android.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by Sylos on Sunday April 23, 2017 @02:40AM (#14176880)

> Though I don't understand why since Firefox mobile extensions are based off a similarly designed system (Jetpack) to Chromes.

Moreover, Mozilla is currently actually switching to an extended version of Chrome's extension API (which Mozilla calls "WebExtensions"). They had no problem implementing that on Android Firefox. Obviously, yes, there are APIs that just don't make sense on a mobile browser, but you have a well-defined API, so just blacklist extensions that require these APIs.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by coldpie on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:37AM (#14156066)

Firefox for Android is really good. Most passive browsing extensions work just as well on mobile as they do on desktop.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by petre on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:34AM (#14153996)

Opera mobile also has an integrated ad blocker but I also use a hosts file to filter just about everything.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by pc2g4d on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:59PM (#14160280)

Firefox is my preferred mobile browser for numerous reasons. I hope it's a good experience for you.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by JCharante on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:04AM (#14154323)

I thought it was because most app stores didn't allow apps to download code to be executed.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by icebraining on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:10AM (#14154343)

Nah, that's just Apple's. Google Play has always been much less restrictive.

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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:13AM (#14154354)

What app store does that other than Apple's? And a rule like that doesn't allow full web browsers so it's unrelated to the question of whether full web browsers have extensions.

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