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The Adblockalypse is coming (lemmy.world)
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[+] 34 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Refuse? Why?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    According to my kids there's a few flash game sites like y8 (perhaps not flash, IIRC that got killed off, but you get the idea) where you're blocked for adblocking. As soon as I have white listed a site they'll find a new one. So they have ublock origin installed, but permanently switched off.

    And for some reason at least one kid actually likes youtube ads smh

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    As a zoomer I can never convince my friends to install AdBlock, they think it's too much of a hassle.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just because it's built on Chromium doesn't mean it has to follow Chromes rules. I know that's hard for you Firefox fanboys to admit though. Google will die but there's Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, and more.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But any browsers that use Chromium have to obey google even if they like it or not

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    No, Chromium is FOSS and every compay or dev is free to modify it to their like. Do you think that Windows with EDGE follow the rules of Google in this Chromium? Or the Chinese Opera? Vivaldi also don't with its gutted Chromium, But Mozilla does, even with Google devs working on Firefox, because Google is its major sponsor. Sends Data to Alphabet and Google analytics, because Mozilla made the mistake of making a contract with the devil, losing independence by relying on outside investors, above the worst one.

    I know that the Firefox fanboys are going to pepper me with downvotes now, because life is hard and so is the truth. The enemy is Google not the engine. Chromium folds to Google only if you use it as-is, without bothering to remove the GoogleAPIs it contains by default.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Google needs to sponsor Firefox because if Firefox goes away, they will get hit with the monopoly stick of the EU and get bigger restrictions.

    Just like what happened with Internet Explorer.

    So it is imperative to Google to keep Firefox afloat whatever the cost. And Firefox has to do nothing in return other than exist.

    Mozilla does not send any data to Google, which you can not say from any of the Chromium-based browsers like Edge.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Edge the last one, in EDGE all telemetries go to MS, Towerdata (the worst one, which use even keyloggers) and other afiliate sites. Firefox need the money from Google, because to maintan its Infrastructure, servers, bread and water for its devs. etc

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