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World's biggest ad company getting rid of ad-blockers, who could see that coming? > Chromium got its webRequest API at a time it was trying to gain market shar

World's biggest ad company getting rid of ad-blockers, who could see that coming? > Chromium got its webRequest API at a time it was trying to gain market share against Firefox (Sep 2011), where Adblock Plus, Ghostery, Disconnect, NoScript, and other such extensions were the most or among the most popular extensions on Firefox. So the only reason they even implemented this browser standard was to gain market share and now that they are in the dominant position they yank it, getting rid of ad blockers. Straight out of the Microsoft playbook.

Ygg2 4y ago
Ah, the extinguish phase, of EEE.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  Firefox did them a favor by trashing the extension ecosystem that had put the pressure on Google in the first place.
  - Ygg2 4y ago
    Firefox did it because of security/performance concerns. Being able to customize UI doesn't lend itself to easy refactoring. In order to compete with Chrome most of XUL extensions had to go. Hyrum's law in practice.
    - encryptluks2 4y ago
      > Firefox did it because of security/performance concerns Isn't that the same concerns used in pushing Mv3?
      - Ygg2 4y ago
        XUL was a legacy system and it was blocking many optimization/refactors. Does Mv2 really hold Chrome back?
  - notriddle 4y ago
    https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/108/556/560/715/311/519/original/1d624e684edbf8b5.png https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/108/556/56...
bogomipz 4y ago
Interesting, so the WebRequest API has its origins at Mozilla? I remember discovering all those wonderful plugins at the time via Firefox but I didn't understand that was the enabler.
hoffs 4y ago
Have you not read the article before posting the comment? Ad blocking is nowhere near being killed