Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by Arnavion on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:37PM (#38495921)

They benefit from people blocking ads, just not their ads. And they can't just build something into their browser to block everyone else's ads by default because that'll be uncompetitive.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by plagiarist on Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:04AM (#38496344)

Is it? I've seen ad blockers try that "privileged ads" model. It's hilariously unpopular and unprofitable due to product market mismatch.

Maybe I am cynical about the law, but I assume the only reason they don't block other networks is because it would be their same advertisers, and they would be furious enough to take action.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by charcircuit on Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:00AM (#38496575)

Chrome already ships with ad blockers built in for ads which are disruptive or use too much resources.

https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-w...

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by denton-scratch on Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:54AM (#38498998)

All ads are disruptive.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by Drakim on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:10AM (#38499099)

Note however that they get to decide this criteria, I as a user does not have any input as to which ads are "disruptive". And hey, it just so happens that their criteria allows for their own ads.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by indymike on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:22AM (#38499171)

It’s not an add blocker. It is a competitive as blocker.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by Arnavion on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:31PM (#38500193)

Yes, which is not "block everyone else's ads". Your own first link says that websites eventually fixed their ads to comply with their "Better Ads Standards" and thus became able to show them again.

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