Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by badloginagain on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @04:54PM (#20045344)

The original creators of Opera have been building out Vivaldi for a while, which has the specific design goal of being a browser for power users

https://vivaldi.com/

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by rasz on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:45PM (#20046445)

UI in javascript = still to this day it can take 2-3 seconds when opening new tabs or going fullscreen. Plus they released a statement about "observing" Google adblock decisions instead of going hard in with "we will not deprecate webrequest usability in our fork".

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by mixedCase on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:01PM (#20045433)

Without source available, it seems like it's targeted for a section of power users.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by chadcatlett on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:04PM (#20045465)

I have no idea if it would compile and is actually complete, but Vivaldi does do sourcecode tarballs.

https://vivaldi.com/source/

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by mixedCase on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:46PM (#20045890)

These are the changes made to Chromium. The code for the UI (made with web technologies) is easy to access, but it's under a proprietary license.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by lone_haxx0r on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @07:50PM (#20046932)

What's their business model?

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by jccalhoun on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @08:44PM (#20047266)

the same business model as all the other free browsers: search referrals

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