Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by bad_user on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:54AM (#20050235)

Aren't Opera and Vivaldi just a re-skinning of Chromium?

If yes, then it probably won’t save you.

And here you have the actual problem with Chrome — unless you fork it and have resources to maintain that fork, its open source nature is absolutely irrelevant. And even if you manage to fork it, you’re not operating at Google’s scale so your fork will be irrelevant.

PS: I use Firefox on top of MacOS and works just fine for me ;-)

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by pps on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:06AM (#20050322)

I don't know how much different they need to be from Chrome/Chromium to not be affected (and if some built-in blocker like in Opera still will be fine), that's why I'm asking :) There is also Safari, but I would rather cook my CPU with FF than use Safari.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by andrethegiant on Thursday May 30, 2019 @09:29AM (#20050899)

What don't you like about Safari?

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by pps on Thursday May 30, 2019 @09:53AM (#20051115)

Basically everything except the fact that it doesn't eat huge amount of RAM. I can't stand iOS either, so not being able to sync tabs/bookmarks between my devices is probably the biggest drawback.

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