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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by aanm1988 on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:35PM (#14474466)
Are the ads really that awful, or just in an area where google isn't winning already?
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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by groby_b on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:49PM (#14474512)
Have you ever surfed the web on mobile, without and ad blocker?
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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by majormajor on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:17PM (#14474625)
Mobile really is far worse than desktop web without a blocker, especially on Chrome on Android compared to my previous iOS or Windows Phones. I'd never seen so many driveby attempts to install crappy software.
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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by jdietrich on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:43PM (#14474717)
The desktop web is still a horrible experience, especially on slow connections or slow computers. Turn off adblock, open the inspector and you'll see ads consuming >90% of bandwidth, memory and CPU, even on mainstream sites. It really is an absurd situation.
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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by ben-schaaf on Saturday June 03, 2017 @12:32AM (#14475023)
That was one of the driving factors that made me switch to firefox (from chrome): I can use uBlock on mobile now.
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