Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex...
by johnnyanmac on Saturday December 02, 2023 @08:25AM
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Yeah, I only use Chrome once in a blue moon and have had a few dozen interviews through teams on web. Haven't had a problem yet (or, no more problems than Google meet/Zoom). My last role used teams on the day to day and Chrome wasn't even installed on my work machine.
honestly slowing down updates for adblockers sounds like a dangerous idea. sooner or later, someone will send you to court for an appstore monopoly, and sooner or later youll lose that case. in the meantime people lose interest in your ecosystem because of the increasingly predatory chicanery that makes their browsing experience suck. sending more eyes to firefox makes firefox better. eventually, better than even you.
This all smacks of "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas." Manifest V3 is dead on arrival if youre going to bury the average google user in an avalanche of unskippable ads and full screen GPU testers. nobody wants this modern hell, and you've everything in your power to reform or amend it to dial back the surveillance capitalism and hyper consumption.