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Google is first and foremost an advertising company, it's in their interest to hobble ad blockers as much as possible. Personally I'm hoping that they do, becau
by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Google is first and foremost an advertising company, it's in their interest to hobble ad blockers as much as possible. Personally I'm hoping that they do, because it'll drive people away from Chrome and nip what's looking increasingly like a monopoly in the bud by driving users to browsers that do support ad blocking.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> it'll drive people away from Chrome and nip what's looking increasingly like a monopoly in the bud by driving users to browsers that do support ad blocking I certainly hope so. I showed Firefox and uBlock Origin to all my friends and they loved it, especially the fact it blocks YouTube ads. Lots of people simply don't know about this.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoYeah, I don't really do "tech support" for family members any more because I've not used Windows in such a long time I'm pretty useless at troubleshooting it, but I do take the time to install Firefox and ad blockers on it which is worthwhile even if you don't have an issue with the adtech industry because it reduces the attack surface for malware.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoSimilar experiences here. I don't know anything about Windows anymore but I'll still install Firerox with uBlock Origin on every computer I come across. People notice that the web is just so much nicer. Most don't understand why, they just know. Malware also stopped being an issue: no more malicious ads for them to click.