Gregory's ServerGoogle confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024 ๐คก
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 money users block ads on YT and content creators need to be paid companies pay Google to sponsor ads on search results, nobody is clicking them anymore, companies stop paying Google money Those content creators already make vastly more than I do... It's already not fair. I have no concern for them because of my ad block. @Soullioness @bbbhltz @nixCraft Iโm happy with paying for good content but Iโm not happy with Google disabling uBlock for power. It will make a (hopefully large) number of users not to use Chrome anymore. @Soullioness @aes__ @davidd @nixCraft Per 1000 ad views, advertisers pay a rate to YT. YT then takes ~45% and the creator gets the rest. Length and subject influence the rate. Something like $1.50 to $30.00 USD per 1000 videos. So, in order to make big money, you do need to be *at least* a macro-influencer in a specific category, and make consistently long videos (>8 mins.) that have sponsors and are watched by people without adblockers. @Soullioness @aes__ @bbbhltz While the big creators do indeed make a lot of money, smaller ones do - in most cases - not.  @aes__ @Soullioness @bbbhltz @davidd @nixCraft Why should my computer catch a virus or I should watch 5 minute ads ยซ to support creators ยป? @Soullioness @bbbhltz @davidd @nixCraft It's always like that for jobs with high publicity (unless there are mafias involved, like the music label industry ๐). @Natanox @Soullioness @davidd @nixCraft >"content creator" is a shitty word we can all agree on that   @Soullioness @bbbhltz @davidd @nixCraft the joke is if you pay for YT Premium you still get ads in the content as the creators have sponsorship and in video ads. If YT blocked ALL ads in content then maybe it would be worth paying for  Few things in life are more useless than You Tube โcelebrities.โ Well, BTS and all its offshoots, too.  @ecksearoh He is also a homophobe who donated to an political cause against marriage equality.  @ecksearoh I'd recommend vivaldi.com, if it needs to be chromium-based. Otherwise Firefox, or a fork of it, like LibreWolf or Mullvad. @ecksearoh Edge becomes more and more AdWare.  @nixCraft @megatronicthronbanks @nixCraft The declarative solution based on MV3 will never be as good as what uBlock does now. As someone put it, "This is roughly the equivalent of taking a heuristic malware blocker and making it depend solely on file names or file checksums". They will just override it eventually. And, a chrome derivative won't make a dent in Google's power to corrupt the web. People need to throw out anything based on chrome or blink - starting yesterday. @megatronicthronbanks @nixCraft I'm not at all worried about nerds. They know the solution. They just needed a push - which this one might be. What I'm worried about is that websites may start blocking non-chromium browsers. Some already do. The only way out is for alternative browsers to have a large enough market share. All the world's nerds are not going to be enough for that. @megatronicthronbanks @goku12 @laurailway @goku12  @megatronicthronbanks @nixCraft Chrome has severely restricted the access of plugins. They won't find any other way, except to bring out their own browser with this built in.  @nixCraft But I love Chrome so much. It has: * customization features Oh wait, that's Firefox.  @nixCraft https://www.tomsguide.com/news/googles-new-extension-platform-could-break-ad-blockers-what-we-know @nixCraft Why is anyone still using this shit browser and why was anyone ever using it when there are better options available? Firefox, Brave, Mullvad, DuckDuckGo, Vivaldi, LibreWolf, etc. There is no reason strong enough to overcome the fact that Google is a surveillance company. Stop being such lazy shitheads already. because most people don't care. they get a browser with windows, chromebook, their mac, and then they use that browser. @nixCraft @obsolescentsapien @nixCraft they will most likely remove it from Chromium, too, which will result in other chromium based browsers, like Brave, Vivaldi, Edge,โฆ loosing that as well. Aren't they using the same plugin repo, too? I think Firefox and LibreWolf are the real alternatives here. @duco @obsolescentsapien @nixCraft I might be wrong, but it sounds like they are removing it from the browser, not the repo. If they change chromium, the change can always be reverted because it is open source. If they change the repo, they can always change the chromium to use another source for the plug-in. @obsolescentsapien @obsolescentsapien @nixCraft I use Firefox since many years. @nixCraft uBo is better on Firefox anyway due to the DNS API. @barthol5280 @Nixcraft Hah yeah adding images in the GSuite was broken for literally years. I don't even think it was intentional, but something broken only on Firefox is def not going to be prioritized to be fixed @nixCraft  @nixCraft Google confirms we will stop using Chrome in 2024. Next, YouTube allowed only on Chrome. There's a // with IE in the 2000's I think. @nixCraft I am waiting for the day when one gets literally burned at the stake for using adblock. Network-wide blocking via DNS filters is still an option though, like https://pi-hole.net  @nixCraft the only thing this guarantees is an upsurge in the uninstallations of Chrome. @nixCraft Google's effort to thwart ad blockers demonstrates it's an advertising sales business and that search, youtube, and everything else it does are devices to leverage content Google does not create as a sea upon which to float billable ads. None of us are obligated to accept Google's ads "because content creators need to be paid". The ads are there because 1) Google can't figure out another way to make money, and, 2) Most of the "content" Google platforms isn't worth paying for.  @nixCraft This should be the #FinalStraw to ban #GoogleChrome and all #Cromium browsers- period!  Firefox and Thunderbird sind it was Netscape Navigator...  @nixCraft By mid 2024 they will have another method that will do the same thing. Only this time you will never know.   @nixCraft The bigger question is why are people still using the google reconnaissance platform...I'm sorry...Chrome browser, when there are far more private browsers out there that allows UBO or similar protection out of the box. https://privacytests.org/private.html @nixCraft@mastodon.social The biggest problem I see is that the chromium-based alternatives such as Brave and Vivaldi will not be able to get mv2. They are already desperately pointing out that they would then improve their own blockers. Only uBlock Origin offers much more than pure adblocking. I wouldn't want to do without it. @nixCraft Well, I've not used Chrome for over a year anyway. However, curious what the impact will be on Cromium based browsers... Not only the blocking uBlock Origin.   @nixCraft Disable Chrome. Disable Google. Use Firefox. Use DuckDuckGo.    @nixCraft Things you can do to (I think) make Google's job harder beyond switch to Firefox:  @nixCraft I switched to Firefox many years ago as soon as manifest v3 was originally announced. It was pretty clear at that point that the eventual goal was to do something like this. Iโll be donating to the Mozilla foundation now. @nixCraft That's fine, it's their browser. But I wonder if this also effects Chromium based browsers. (or Freetube)    @nixCraft my PiHole go brrrrrr. Also I'm happy to welcome Firefox back as my primary browser. @nixCraft the problem is Google blocking extensions that block ads is it pisses off the people who have the technical know how to change browsers. I understand why they think this is a good idea, but it seems incredibly short sighted. There's reasons people jumped to chrome why give them reasons to jump off. @nixCraft Yawn. AdGuard runs as a service outside the browser, so it will continue to work no matter what Google (or anyone else) does, blocking ads in any browser, and also ads in non-browser apps.  @nixCraft if they touch SmartTube I will set my Google TV on fire   @nixCraft well, the battle plan seems pretty clear. The era of shock ads is upon us. I really hope Google likes angry school officials yelling about tub girl ads on the 4th graders Chromebooks. @nixCraft   @nixCraft I see the struggles that people using Chrome go through, and it feels like there's a bit of Stockholm syndrome happening there.   @nixCraft@mastodon.social Sorry Google, I'm already using โ:firefox:โ โ:awesome_rotate:โ @nixCraft my answer to Google is simple they wonโt win this battle. https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624 At the end of the day, no one wants to browse the Internet without their digital protection, as itโs full of STDs. @nixCraft also the best browser to choose for all the Vivaldi fans is https://floorp.app/en/ Firefox based, you can make it yourself if youโre so inclined.  @nixCraft don't care what will happen to chrome as I use FF +uBlock since age and now proton VPN to enforce the fight ๐  @nixCraft It's not even close to being able to use Chrome yet in 2023. Deserves a wooden beating @nixCraft And users like me will disable Chrome on our computers. Extremely shortsighted move by Google.  @nixCraft This is going to massively increase the workload of the IT department at almost every company and government office in the world. Ads are THE major vector for malware in organizations that are otherwise competently protected. @nixCraft man i JUST switched to ungoogled-chromium ๐ญ back to firefox i go |
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