Google to kill ad-blocking in Chrome?

[FeuerFrei]

I tried out the Opera browser based on several users mentioning it here. However, I had two concerns about it, so I uninstalled it after using it for a couple of days.

First off, it seems to work pretty good, and I had no issues browsing various sites. The bad: When first installing it, it asked what I wanted to import from my other browser. I specifically unchecked saved passwords, but it did so anyways. After seeing that, I wanted to see who owned it, and it appears it was purchased by a group of Chinese investors in 2016. So after those two things, I uninstalled it.

I was checking out Android browsers on teh Play store recently, and I believe the latest reviews for Opera complained that now it actually inserts an ad on every page - IIRC.

 

[lxskllr]

You didn't know Chrome now has a crushingly huge market share?

Tends to happen when the dominant search engine spams it every time a search is made, and sabotages other browsers on popular services like youtube. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. I should switch to chrome like the other people that do what they're told.

 

[Captante]

Try using https://brave.com/. it's basically chrome(chromium based) with scripts and ads blocked by default, no extensions needed. That being said the browser may collapse at some point as their business model may fail, but in the meantime it's pretty sweet.

Downloaded & will give a try ... btw although I found the built in script blocking it was disabled by default in settings.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You didn't know Chrome now has a crushingly huge market share?

Not that I don't know I'm more amazed at it, I don't get why. Firefox has been around for way longer and is not owned by a spy company. Seems like a no brainer to use Firefox.

 

[Rifter]

Not that I don't know I'm more amazed at it, I don't get why. Firefox has been around for way longer and is not owned by a spy company. Seems like a no brainer to use Firefox.

Firefox was rather slow before the big update though, so i can see why firefox lost some users.

 

[Sonikku]

I miss when the most troublesome ads were not the ones with malware trying to hijack your computer, but instead flashy ones trying to give you a seizure with something written like "IMPORTANT- If this banner ad is flashing, YOU'VE WON A PRIZE!".

Man, those were the days. 🙁

 

[BudAshes]

Downloaded & will give a try ... btw although I found the built in script blocking it was disabled by default in settings.

Yeah you are right, forgot I had to enable that.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't have an issue with seeing legit ads.

My issue is the shady advertising companies some websites partner with (** COUGH - sounds familiar for some reason - COUGH **) that hijack your browser. For example, I quit reading USA Today because most of the time I have to disable my adblocker to see the article. A few weeks back they had an article on Ohio State football, so I disabled my adblocker to read it.

And guess what happened? I got a redirect from one their crappy ad partners that said my files were locked and to call a phone number to get them unlocked. I couldn't even close the browser the normal way, I had to CTRL-ALT-DEL to kill Chrome altogether to get rid of it.

If they find a way to get rid of that crap, I'll stop blocking all their ads.

It was exactly that sort of thing, that motivated my idea behind this:

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/web-browser-mining-standard-api.2565224/

Hopefully, if something like that gets implemented, internet ads might become mostly a thing of the past?

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Better break out the raspberry pi and get pihole running

My problem with pi-hole is that every stupid person will google something, and then click the first/second link - which is obviously a sponsored link.

Pi-hole will obviously block those, even though it's exactly where they want to go.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I've heard this before and people always say "They are never going to do it. They would loose their market share as the top browser." Well I believe they have already done it on the Google Play Store so it was just a matter of time before it happened on the desktop.

Google is an advertising firm. They make their money by selling us advertisements. Why in the hell would they want a program that blocks their customers ads from reaching us?

Well, I'm no expert - but just a hunch....

Google Chrome is a web browser. I'm fairly sure they collect all kinds of usage data and other shit that we aren't fully aware of - REGARDLESS of our adblock addons.

Someone like myself - only uses Chrome specifically for addons like ublock. If they get rid of it - I will cease to use Chrome. Period.

 

[zinfamous]

I've heard this before and people always say "They are never going to do it. They would loose their market share as the top browser." Well I believe they have already done it on the Google Play Store so it was just a matter of time before it happened on the desktop.

Google is an advertising firm. They make their money by selling us advertisements. Why in the hell would they want a program that blocks their customers ads from reaching us?

I don't think they really make so much money selling us advertisements as they do selling us to their advertisers.

 

[zinfamous]

Well, I'm no expert - but just a hunch....

Google Chrome is a web browser. I'm fairly sure they collect all kinds of usage data and other shit that we aren't fully aware of - REGARDLESS of our adblock addons.

Someone like myself - only uses Chrome specifically for addons like ublock. If they get rid of it - I will cease to use Chrome. Period.

yes, this.