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Power is typically zero-sum. As Google gains effective monopoly power, Mozilla and others whose interests are more aligned with the public interest lose power.
by quadrangle 9y ago
Power is typically zero-sum. As Google gains effective monopoly power, Mozilla and others whose interests are more aligned with the public interest lose power. I could go on.
Put simply, if nobody stops using other adblockers because of this, then nothing is directly a problem. The problems come when Google uses their power to do things like block adblockers in Chrome (as they already do on Android!) and other ramifications of their power.
Anyway, adblockers aren't just about obnoxious ads. They are also about the simple fact that if I want to search for some product, I would prefer a neutral result and don't want any amount of my results to be biased toward whoever spends the most money for the privilege, and further issues with advertising in general.
- sowbug 9y ago> as they already do on Android! This is exclusionary detailing, wouldn't you say? Chrome on Android doesn't have an extensions platform.
- ben-schaaf 9y agoThat doesn't stop you from using a local proxy to filter ad network traffic, like what Adblock Plus does on android. Adblock Plus was removed from the play store in 2013 [0]. That being said there are other browsers on android that either support extensions (like firefox) or have an adblocker built in. [0]: https://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-for-android-removed-from-google-play-store https://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-for-android-remove...
- saiya-jin 9y agoThis made me switch to firefox in android as my default and only browser a year ago, can't recommend enough. What is this obsession with Chrome anyway? I am a software dev (true, not really frontend these days anymore) and I can't tell the difference (apart from desktop Chrome taking much more memory due to segregated processes)
- sowbug 9y agoGreat, but irrelevant to this thread.
- Dylan16807 9y agoWhich means that's an understatement of how bad the problem is.
- sowbug 9y agoOh, please. Lack of an extensions platform is not evidence of an intent to suppress your specific pet extension.
- quadrangle 9y agoThanks for clarifying. I don't use it. I just verified by talking to others that uBlock and Firefox was possible while uBlock in Chrome on Android was not (nor was any other adblocker).