[Mental Outlaw] The End of Ad Blockers In Chrome (www.youtube.com)
from recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca to technology@beehaw.org on 09 Oct 2024 03:37
https://lemmy.ca/post/30592283

Please consider helping a friend by helping them migrate off of Chrome and towards something like:

Google’s beginning to roll out the deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions which includes ad blockers. Extensions are still manually installable but the process is no longer accessible for non-power users.

In addition to the continued enshitification of Chrome it seems that Google is also kneecapping people’s privacy and security:

“You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance,”

Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance

Google Will Track Your Location ‘Every 15 Minutes’—‘Even With GPS Disabled’

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kurcatovium@lemm.ee on 09 Oct 2024 17:55 next collapse

Isn’t Falkon pretty much dead?

recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca on 10 Oct 2024 04:34 collapse

Surprisingly Falkon’s still receiving updates and is still in active development as indicated by their Project Repo

About the releases

Falkon is a part of KDE Applications and KDE Gear, which are released typically 3 times a year en-masse

RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com on 09 Oct 2024 19:05 next collapse

I like Zen browser

disguised_doge@kbin.earth on 10 Oct 2024 01:45 collapse

Also possibly Fennec for mobile. It's Firefox based but cleaned up like Librewolf.

That and Brave & Vivaldi have built in adblock that allows them to keep MV2 era adblocking despite being Chromium based.