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Am I wrong to think that all of this is trying too little, too late? Why wouldn’t people just use an adblocker st this point? Everyone I know and care about get

Am I wrong to think that all of this is trying too little, too late? Why wouldn’t people just use an adblocker st this point? Everyone I know and care about gets them installed by me, and I’m sure that not unusual. Getting uBO is isn’t a technically challenging activity, and it works. Am I missing the obvious again?

bcoates 9y ago
Google is hoping that this will discourage people from going to even the minimal effort to use an adblocker. The next step will be to mildly then not-so-mildly burden effective adblockers on Chrome.
bestnameever 9y ago
uBO seems to block ads well enough for me but not the tracking. I can easily see this by turning off uBO. What's a good way to block tracking within chrome?
- IntronExon 9y ago
  uMatrix and a random user agent spoofer should do it.
bzbarsky 9y ago
> Why wouldn’t people just use an adblocker st this point? Because once Google ships their built-in adblocker in Chrome, they plan to start putting up paywalls for users that are using other adblockers (but only on the sites where Chrome itself is not blocking ads). They've made this pretty clear in their communications about the whole thing if you read them carefully.
- kodablah 9y ago
  Can you show me where this is pretty clear? Not completely doubting you, but I am a bit skeptical that they would get into the cat-and-mouse game of ad blocker detection.
  - bzbarsky 9y ago
    See the bit about "Funding Choices" at https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-better-web-everyone/ https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-bett... and the documentation for that at https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7362965?hl=en https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7362965?hl=... [Edit: I guess https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7074355?hl=en&ref_topic=7074184 https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7074355?hl=... is a better toplevel summary of what "Funding Choices" is about.]

bcoates 9y ago

Google is hoping that this will discourage people from going to even the minimal effort to use an adblocker. The next step will be to mildly then not-so-mildly burden effective adblockers on Chrome.

bestnameever 9y ago

uBO seems to block ads well enough for me but not the tracking. I can easily see this by turning off uBO. What's a good way to block tracking within chrome?

IntronExon 9y ago
uMatrix and a random user agent spoofer should do it.

bzbarsky 9y ago

> Why wouldn’t people just use an adblocker st this point? Because once Google ships their built-in adblocker in Chrome, they plan to start putting up paywalls for users that are using other adblockers (but only on the sites where Chrome itself is not blocking ads). They've made this pretty clear in their communications about the whole thing if you read them carefully.

kodablah 9y ago
Can you show me where this is pretty clear? Not completely doubting you, but I am a bit skeptical that they would get into the cat-and-mouse game of ad blocker detection.
- bzbarsky 9y ago
  See the bit about "Funding Choices" at https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-better-web-everyone/ https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-bett... and the documentation for that at https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7362965?hl=en https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7362965?hl=... [Edit: I guess https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7074355?hl=en&ref_topic=7074184 https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7074355?hl=... is a better toplevel summary of what "Funding Choices" is about.]