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A comment on Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week.

Re:Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kick... by ppetty on Friday May 31, 2024 @03:36PM (#40539352)
Regarding links in the article, it’s definitely lacking (as mentioned links like this: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...) but also why don’t articles like this offer a consistent set of alternate browsers like Firefox, Safari & all the Chromium derivatives (Brave, DuckDuckGo & Arc) that include ad blockers? I get that there’s a difference between those & the free choice to pick your ad blocker; but eventually everyone grows tired of the cat n mouse game. Why not help promote switching?

Almost all of these, for example, have desktop variants:

https://developer.apple.com/support/browser-choice-screen/

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Re:Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kick... by grounder on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:44PM (#40541408)
I use Vivaldi and love it. I hope their built-in ad-blocking continues to work even if the uBlock Origin extension does not.
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Re:Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kick... by DangitBobby on Saturday June 01, 2024 @01:19AM (#40543094)
I'd go and download the MV2 version of the extension today. Vivaldi lets you load extensions directly from .crx files (unlike Chrome, which refuses to run extensions that were not published on the Chrome store), and MV2 extensions will probably keep working in Chromium for at least a year since Google has said they will allow some special enterprise extensions to keep using MV2 for a while.
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