Starting June 2024, adblockers such as uBlock Origin and many other extensions on Chrome will no longer work as intended. Google Chrome will begin disabling extensions based on an older extension platform, called Manifest V2, as it moves to the more limited V3 version.
The FBI recommends that everyone use an adblocker as part of their basic security toolkit.
If your browser vendor has a problem with that, switch to a different browser.
Fortunately, this is mitigated by not using Chrome.
This is the way
Chrome’s user-base is so large that sites might start explicitly requiring chrome.
Just like they keep insisting we disable adblockers to view them. Both are easy to circumvent, but mostly my reaction is to just close the tab and look for the content elsewhere.
Google has already talked about a plan to cryptographically authenticate a browser. We likely won’t be able to get around that.
Creators really need to release torrents of their libraries of content so that we can access it without having to go through platforms. Maybe release them twice a year? Four times a year? Imagine just pulling up a creator’s torrent, clicking which videos you want to download to watch, then waiting a few minutes and playing it right off of your computer. I bet that could also work with peertube?
Implicitly they often do already because web devs have become more and more lazy and don’t test any browser but the one they prefer themselves.
Google has already talked about a plan to cryptographically authenticate a browser. We likely won’t be able to get around that.
As far as I remember they acted in parallel and pushed the implementation already. They claimed it to be rogue actions of over-enthusiastic devs after the concept paper caused a public outcry.
I haven’t followed that issue but Google will continue to try to close us in, for sure.
Hmm, weird. Using an ad-blocker is basic security advice at this point because Google and other ad companies don’t vet their advertisers properly, so malware or phishing often makes its way into ads. But yes, believe Google’s lies and stop using an ad-blocker for “security reasons”. Honestly, these shitty big tech corporations should just go fuck themselves.
They mean ad revenue security
Yeah that’s the only kind of security they care about. Fuck Big Tech! And most importantly, stop using their garbage services.
“Security”, haha yeah right
Literally my reaction when I saw that.
Does this make the company look good or bad? Does this hurt or help their brand?
They need to fix google search. Relevant results are the keywords.
I will NEVER touch Chrome. If I MUST I will use Chromium once in a long ass while. Otherwise, fuck off your bullshit spying CIA/FBI/etc. website.
This reads like “gun makers softens triggers on guns to improve gun safety” or “baby formula makers poison baby food to build up babies’ tolerance to poisoned baby food”
What a messed up title.
The one and only reason they are doing this is to boost ad revenue.
That they even mention the word “security” in this is a farce.
It’s still as insecure as ever, since a malicious plugin can simply spy on and report on your usage.
It’s funny. Seeing this post was the catalyst for me to finally set Firefox as the default browser on my phone and start using it daily. Going to set it up on my work laptop tomorrow too.
Also stop using Google as your search engine, there are much better options like DuckDuckGo. You can also use Startpage if you like Google search results, it’s a meta search engine that pulls everything from Google without exposing you to Google tracking.
“much better”
Not perfect but much better than Google
Ha, no. You might have some points, but you blow all your credibility with anybody who has ever used Duck Duck Go.
What’s the issue with DuckDuckGo and why is it worse than Google? Provide actual arguments please.
Q: “dark haired actress from witcher show”
Google: “Anya Chalotra (born 1994 or 1995) is a British actress primarily known for her role as Yennefer of Vengerberg in the Netflix original series The Witcher”
DDG: “The Witcher (TV Series 2019- ) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb”Q: “AA203”
Google: “American Airlines flight 203, Amsterdam to Philadelphia: Arrived at 308pm”
DDG: “AA203 (AAL203) American Airlines Flight Tracking and History - Flightaware”Q: “time signature of mission impossible theme”
Google: “5/4 time”
DDG: “Theme from Mission: Impossible
American television theme music
“Theme from Mission: Impossible” is the theme tune of the TV series Mission: Impossible. The theme was written and composed by Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin and has since gone on to appear in several other works of the Mission: Impossible franchise, including the 1988 TV series, the film series, and the video game series. Wikipedia…”Q: “Golang test for string empty”
Google: “In Golang, we can do this by:
Comparing it with an empty string.
Evaluating the length of the string; if it’s zero, then the string is empty, and vice versa.” DDG: “https://stackoverflow.com › questions › 18594330 › what-is-the-best-way-to-test-for-an-empty-string-in-go
What is the best way to test for an empty string in Go?”Q: “aoe4 finding landmarks”
Google: “Reddit: How do you know which buildings are landmarks?”
DDG: “https://ageofempires.fandom.com › wiki › Landmark
Landmark | Age of Empires Series Wiki | Fandom”These were just a handful of queries I threw at the two. Google often gives the exact answer with no other searching needed. DDG never does. When the results are links and they’re different, the Google results are simply better. Anybody objective who uses the two search engines knows this. Only someone with an axe to grind would pretend that DDG is anywhere near as good.
Ad blockers: 1, Google: 0
Totally reads like an Onion headline.
