@catsalad on the part of Google this is officially retarded and will backfire harder than their DRM for Web

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff

I guess that's what one gets when an advertising company gets a de-facto monopoly on a browser.

@catsalad I miss the "don't be evil" days

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff Just wish it was possible to split my tabs easily like I can in Vivaldi in other browsers. This is a must for my productivity. Having entire separate browser windows is not the same as a split tab.

@catsalad I'm hoping the EU whoops their ass in some way for this, thoug I'm not sure they could. Else, the web will be unbearable if Google has its ways.

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff or Vivaldi Browser, if one still fancies Chromium as a foundation.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff @samerfarha ublock just needs to release their own chromium browser

@catsalad
Wondering if extensions like #TamperMonkey or #GreaseMonkey will still be permitted, since one could load the source code directly into the extension and still quasi have uBlock.

@catsalad LibreWolf will fix it! Open Source Software is a blessing! @mozilla @torproject @eff

@catsalad
Bye bye Chrome. It was a nice time, as long as it lasted...
@mozilla @torproject @eff @daniel_bohrer

#uBO #Mv3 #Chrome #Google #AdBlockers #ManifestV3 #Firefox #TorBrowser

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff As users, we are supposed to have control of our traffic and what requests our browsers make. If we don't want to request the advert, it should be up to us!

This move is actively hostile.

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff Or, use an adblocker that doesn't run in the browser, like AdGuard. It blocks ads everywhere, including non-browser apps.

@catsalad 640Kb of ad blocking ought to be enough for anybody. :)

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff

Firefox FTW

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff I am removing chrome from my devices

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff well, another browser dies... Google Explorer or Chrome Edge will be the next version 😅

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff "Don't be evil"

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff it's not just YouTube. It sounds like they're going to make Chrome unusable for most serious purposes. Oh, well.

@catsalad
I wish that firefox could win on merit instead of being less shit, but this is apparently the world Google wants us to live in.

I love FF but I wish there were viable alternatives.

I don't love having a choice between privacy and a browser that always has to play catchup with bad-faith standards fuckery designed to make it run furiously just to stay in place.

@catsalad
Darnit.

I predicted this in a conversation with my mom, but… I really would have preferred *not* being proven right. I'll lean on her a little harder to finish leaving Chrome (she has Firefox but somehow is using both at any given time).

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff

If there was ever a reason to ditch chrome... for those of you who haven't seen the light and never used it at all.... then it's now.

Get a browser that's better... firefox, brave and so forth. Install some appropriate plugins like ublock origin, throw in ghostery, privacy badger and noscript to further enhance your privacy... and then use firefox containers to sandbox everything google, facebook and so forth. Stop the tracking data, make it worthless

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff
Have they said whether this update will get pushed to Windows 7 clients?

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff
Definitely, I've been using TOR and Firefox for years with DDG as the search engine.

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff
Provider: "We want you to do the thing."
Users: *do a whole another thing*
Provider: "We prevent you from doing the thing"
Users: *Circumvent it*
Provider: "We prevent you harder
Users: *leave*
Provider: :AAAAAA:

(One can hope, right? Right?)

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff ... We are on the case,trialing duck duck go! Come January 1st 2023 we'll be removing Google Chrome from our devices and pcs as a browser! :ivory_elephant:

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff

Final Warning on Google!

Ignoring it will make you their victim!

Final Warning on Google!

@catsalad
I am a happy Firefox user, and recommended that one to my Discord buddies, but how are some of the Chromium-based browsers reacting to this?

Namely Microsoft Edge (for work reasons) and Vivaldi (as that one has previously always been a very close second for me in terms of browser preference)?

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff What about chromium?

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff Ah shoot I meant to write EU regulators but I keep forgetting. Like someone should investigate it and if there isn't a law to prevent it, write one.

@catsalad I’ve always been #TeamFirefox, but this is just another argument not to use #Chrome 😉

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff I really wonder what will actually happen. #Chromium is open source, and theoretically slicing the blocking code could be done, only if Google don't actually rewrite the whole inner logic to be impossible to cut out bad slices.
But I see people moving from #Chrome to other browsers (opera, brave, ...) just because of the ad blockers, so yes, it works.

@catsalad I wonder how Brave and Vivaldi would deal with this - they've rejected the proposal, but how much can they do?

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff "Mozilla, apparently forced to follow in Google's wake for compatibility reasons, announced it will also be requiring extensions to switch to service workers. While Mozilla will continue to support the blocking capabilities of webRequest, in addition to implementing declarativeNetRequest, it was framed as a temporary reprieve “until there’s a better solution which covers all use cases we consider important.”"

@catsalad thanks, I added your toot to my bibliography @mozilla @torproject @eff

@catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff

thx mozilla, there is a firefox available!