• Engywuck@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Nope. Many Chromium forks already have very good inbuilt adblockers , which won’t be affected by the MV3 stuff. On top of that, one could also use system-wide blockers suck as AdGuard and DNS-level blockers (which is not even a bad idea if you’re on Windows anyway).

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      8 months ago

      System wide ad blockers can’t block a lot of ads, namely same-domain ads or those that are built into the html. Much rarer than the external page kind (DNS ones) thankfully.

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      8 months ago

      Man’s 3 poignant inquiries away from peddling Brave. Tread carefully folks.

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        8 months ago

        As long as these browsers themselves exist. Inbuilt adblockers aren’t extension, are integral parts of the browsers, and don’t need to follow extensions’ rules.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah surel, I’ll use the inadequate browser but fox the problems with system wide ad blockers, instead of just using a browser, that doesn’t steal my data and let’s me install addons that I want. Google is way out of bounds here imho.

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        8 months ago

        Use whatever suits you. I’m just saying that people already using browsers with a built-in AdBlock aren’t going to switch, because they won’t even notice the MV3 stuff.

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          8 months ago

          Aren’t all those ad blockers and distribution platforms too? Heard about ABP that sell ad space for example.

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            8 months ago

            IIRC, ABP used to whiteliste some “acceptable” ads (non invasive, etc…). Frankly, it’s been literally ages since I have used it, so I don’t know how they behave right now. I was referring to AdGuard as a system-wide adblocker, though, which is a completely different story.

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            8 months ago

            If anything, they’re worse.

            1. Brave is an advertising company, that blocks everyone, but them. Forcing over people and companies into their system.
            2. They’re heavily in the blockchain ecosystem, with their own worthless crypto.
            3. They take from open source projects (uBlock, Chromium, etc), but threaten legal action when someone forks them.
            4. They install bloat/spyware on your Windows system (later claimed it was a mistake).
            5. Brave, and its CEO is right-wing, lobbying against things like same-sex marriage.

            I could go on.