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Ad blocking is the only thing that makes the web bearable. I hope the extension rejection was a mistake or over something unrelated to blocking functionality.
by xfitm3 7y ago
Ad blocking is the only thing that makes the web bearable. I hope the extension rejection was a mistake or over something unrelated to blocking functionality.
- alpaca128 7y agoNowadays ad blocking isn't even enough anymore. It feels like every website with news articles of any kind has some scrolling, autoplaying video embedded into the site, sometimes even with audio enabled. Unfortunately I haven't seen a blocker for that because it's not considered an ad. It is definitely more annoying than most ads, though.
- asymptotically2 7y agoIf you dig through the options, you can prevent videos from auto-playing.
- Santosh83 7y agoYou can block both video and audio from autoplaying in Firefox by going into about:config. It works. But in Chrome AFAIK you can only mute the audio and not the video from autoplaying.
- Klathmon 7y agoYou can stop video from playing as well in Chrome settings. Either globally, or on a site-per-site basis.
- alexis_fr 7y agoOn the other hand, the GDPR has made tracking diminish a lot. It’s just time the web became bearable, and that could have a synchronous effect on Google’s decisions.
- dastx 7y agoWell no, instead you get a giant banner saying "will you please accept these 10 billion trackers we've installed?" With some websites you can't even say no (which mind you is against GDPR) but who's gonna sue them?
- cuu508 7y agoOne good thing with the giant banners is that they make everyone more aware of all the tracking going on. I do sometimes just leave the site instead of clicking the single "I Agree" option.
- zamalek 7y agoChrome is removing the API that uBlock (and others) use, so adblocking is completely going away soon (the new API has limits that render it useless).