Chrome to end support for ad blockers

[mclaren85]

All chrome based browsers will lack official support for developing ad block extensions by the end of the year, sources claim.

Ad-block developers fear end is near for their extensions

Overhaul of Chrome add-ons set for January, Google says it's for all our own good

www.theregister.com

 

[P4-630]

Hopefully Raymond Hill can make the transition from Mv2 to Mv3 and still getting uBlock Origin working as intended....

 

[Space Lynx]

Hopefully Raymond Hill can make the transition from Mv2 to Mv3 and still getting uBlock Origin working as intended....

I have already made the transition to Firefox and Ublock Origin permanently for everything I do (on Android and on the computer)

The rest can go to hell. Long live Firefox!

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Firefox so okay.

 

[P4-630]

I just don't want to have another account just for using Firefox to store passwords and favorites ....
Firefox doesn't work with googles services, so no Firefox for me...

 

[cvaldes]

LOL, where did I put that installer for Internet Junkbuster?

 

[Space Lynx]

I just don't want to have another account just for using Firefox to store passwords and favorites ....
Firefox doesn't work with googles services, so no Firefox for me...

it took me about 40 minutes to transfer all of that, it was a pain I admit, but 40 mins isn't the end of the world. and I just prefer Firefox personally.

 

[ThrashZone]

I just don't want to have another account just for using Firefox to store passwords and favorites ....
Firefox doesn't work with googles services, so no Firefox for me...

Hi,
Which google services is that
Sure isn't gmail.

I don't sign into firefox
Passwords you can't remember your passwords ?
Bookmarks I'm not sure what you're talking about there bud I have hundreds of bookmarks on my favorites bar in folders

Sync bookmarks maybe but that's why they also have import and export to html.

 

[Valantar]

Passwords you can't remember your passwords ?

Most of us have hundreds if not thousands of accounts across the web. Are you saying you can remember unique passwords for each of those? Or do you just reuse passwords like it's 1999?

That said, Firefox has a decent password manager built in. I use Lastpass for its cross platform compatibility + web access in a pinch. Plenty of other options out there too.


As for this chrome news: that is some grade A crap right there. I can't help but see this as the beginning of the end for Chrome's browser dominance. I've been very happy using FF for the past few years, FWIW.

 

[Space Lynx]

Most of us have hundreds if not thousands of accounts across the web. Are you saying you can remember unique passwords for each of those? Or do you just reuse passwords like it's 1999?

That said, Firefox has a decent password manager built in. I use Lastpass for its cross platform compatibility + web access in a pinch. Plenty of other options out there too.


As for this chrome news: that is some grade A crap right there. I can't help but see this as the beginning of the end for Chrome's browser dominance. I've been very happy using FF for the past few years, FWIW.

FireFox has improved immensely in the last two years alone, its a top notch experience.

I have no need for Chrome based browsers ever again.

 

[Frick]

Passwords you can't remember your passwords ?

I have 197 entries in Bitwarden... Some are doubles, most are more or less one-offs, many are from stores I bought one thing from, some are ones I use once per year, some are for work, some are pins... Remembering them all is futile unless using the same password everywhere or variations on that password and that is a bad idea.

 

[cvaldes]

I have nearly a thousand accounts in LastPass.

The old advice of making a password “easy to remember but hard to guess” is no longer valid in 2022. If you do that, you’re recycling a handful of shorter, less complex passwords, something I did 10-15 years ago.

I steadily moved to long, more complex passwords for more important accounts but by the mid-2010s it was clear the largest Internet companies had serious security breaches. So today I use LastPass to generate unique 16-character passwords with special characters. No more recycling passwords.

Once I hit about 80-90 passwords I started keeping track of them in a file. This was maybe around 2005. Smartphone based cloud syncing password lockers were the game changers, first 1Password, then LastPass and later biometric methods like Touch ID and Face ID.

Of my 1000 passwords a hundred are probably for discontinued services and sites. Easily 200 are for really important sites that I rarely access: DMV, US Department of Homeland Security (for passport stuff), Covered California health insurance portal, tax assessor pay portals, stuff like that.

There are probably another 100 passwords for initial registration that I may never visit again.

On top of that I now use maybe 5-6 email addresses for account registration but messages from only two of those mail accounts reach my phone or computer e-mail app. So beyond remembering the password I also need to remember which email address I used for registration. Worse, some services make you log in with a user name, others require an e-mail.

There is no way I’m going to remember my Marriott.com password or the one I need when my Global Entry renewal is up.

With biometric authentication (Touch ID or Face ID for Apple devices) today, I actually type in my passwords even less frequently making them even harder to remember.

Anyhow I use ad blockers primarily for security reasons, an unassailable position.

If Google does disable ad blocker support in Chromium, it’s Firefox on my PCs. It will encourage me to web surf more on my Apple devices like I’m doing right now.

 

[P4-630]

Passwords you can't remember your passwords ?

It seems you never bought anything online...

 

[Dr. Dro]

I have already made the transition to Firefox and Ublock Origin permanently for everything I do (on Android and on the computer)

The rest can go to hell. Long live Firefox!

Firefox gang! If only Mozilla could finally make it as fast as Chromium

 

[95Viper]

Keep it on topic, please.

 

[AnotherReader]

Firefox gang! If only Mozilla could finally make it as fast as Chromium

It's fast enough on a good computer. I have Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Vivaldi on my computer, and speed isn't a concern for the sites I visit. I started using Firefox for its extensions and I've never gotten the love for Chrome; even the new Edge is better.

 

[Dr. Dro]

It's fast enough on a good computer. I have Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Vivaldi on my computer, and speed isn't a concern for the sites I visit. I started using Firefox for its extensions and I've never gotten the love for Chrome; even the new Edge is better.

I agree, most sites work fine, but it's still sluggish in places and the HDR video support in it is from terrible to non-existent, so these are things I would very much like to see resolved. I've always been a Firefox user at heart, faithful to it since 1.5

I've tried numerous Chromium-based browsers and Chrome itself over time, but I always return to Firefox as my main. It's just the best browser all-around. Opera would be my second-favorite, though.

 

[chrcoluk]

It took them a long time but firefox has finally become a usable browser for me, the old problems it had causing stutters and slow page loads are for the large part gone.

I just wish it had native side tabs support, and better tab management in general to match vivaldi.

 

[mclaren85]

It took them a long time but firefox has finally become a usable browser for me, the old problems it had causing stutters and slow page loads are for the large part gone.

I just wish it had native side tabs support, and better tab management in general to match vivaldi.

But still, firefox renders the fonts in a different way. In some sites, I can see the aliased fonts. Chrome based browsers made this type of rendering way better.

 

[hat]

Google services live on ads... ads which are often annoying and obtrusive at best, and downright malicious at worst. It's amazing how bloated, dysfunctional and confusing many websites become when browsing without adblock. If Google wishes to die on this hill, so be it, I'll be switching to Firefox or some other browser like everyone else in this thread.

 

[Space Lynx]

I agree, most sites work fine, but it's still sluggish in places and the HDR video support in it is from terrible to non-existent, so these are things I would very much like to see resolved. I've always been a Firefox user at heart, faithful to it since 1.5

I've tried numerous Chromium-based browsers and Chrome itself over time, but I always return to Firefox as my main. It's just the best browser all-around. Opera would be my second-favorite, though.

The only time HDR is worth watching imo is on an OLED screen with a 4K Blu Ray movie, and some games. Other than that I have no idea what benefit you are actually seeing, it must be miniscule beyond comprehension. So this is not an advantage for Chrome at all imo

Google services live on ads... ads which are often annoying and obtrusive at best, and downright malicious at worst. It's amazing how bloated, dysfunctional and confusing many websites become when browsing without adblock. If Google wishes to die on this hill, so be it, I'll be switching to Firefox or some other browser like everyone else in this thread.

Very good.

 

[ThrashZone]

I have 197 entries in Bitwarden... Some are doubles, most are more or less one-offs, many are from stores I bought one thing from, some are ones I use once per year, some are for work, some are pins... Remembering them all is futile unless using the same password everywhere or variations on that password and that is a bad idea.

Hi,
Yep well depending on a browser or add-on to remember your passwords for you is just as much of a bad idea.
But to each their own.

 

[AsRock]

Most of us have hundreds if not thousands of accounts across the web. Are you saying you can remember unique passwords for each of those? Or do you just reuse passwords like it's 1999?

That said, Firefox has a decent password manager built in. I use Lastpass for its cross platform compatibility + web access in a pinch. Plenty of other options out there too.


As for this chrome news: that is some grade A crap right there. I can't help but see this as the beginning of the end for Chrome's browser dominance. I've been very happy using FF for the past few years, FWIW.

Don't trust a app to hold passwords and surely don't trust computers. Just the good ol paper more.

Don't worry people be able to use that parm reader soon what store's all your data on the cloud hahaha. Don't want none of that finger \ eye or face crap so yesterday, i want to give every little bit of my details, to well anyone so i could be setup for that perfect murder haha.

 

[Assimilator]

Google services live on ads... ads which are often annoying and obtrusive at best, and downright malicious at worst. It's amazing how bloated, dysfunctional and confusing many websites become when browsing without adblock. If Google wishes to die on this hill, so be it, I'll be switching to Firefox or some other browser like everyone else in this thread.

They're not dying on any hill, though; they're slowly but surely strangling extensions' abilities to block content every few years, so it doesn't make them look so bad. It's the standard boiling frog metaphor (look it up), and unfortunately it works; it's the same playbook that authoritarian political parties use to erode rights and gain power.

 

[qubit]

Does that mean that Brace with its built-in ad blocking and YouTube ad killer will stop working its magic? That will be a sad day indeed.