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Google to weaken ad blockers on Chrome in a push for security
(cybernews.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Fortunately, this is mitigated by not using Chrome.
This is the way
Chrome’s user-base is so large that sites might start explicitly requiring chrome.
Just like they keep insisting we disable adblockers to view them. Both are easy to circumvent, but mostly my reaction is to just close the tab and look for the content elsewhere.
Google has already talked about a plan to cryptographically authenticate a browser. We likely won’t be able to get around that.
Creators really need to release torrents of their libraries of content so that we can access it without having to go through platforms. Maybe release them twice a year? Four times a year? Imagine just pulling up a creator's torrent, clicking which videos you want to download to watch, then waiting a few minutes and playing it right off of your computer. I bet that could also work with peertube?
Implicitly they often do already because web devs have become more and more lazy and don't test any browser but the one they prefer themselves.
Google has already talked about a plan to cryptographically authenticate a browser. We likely won’t be able to get around that.
As far as I remember they acted in parallel and pushed the implementation already. They claimed it to be rogue actions of over-enthusiastic devs after the concept paper caused a public outcry.
I haven't followed that issue but Google will continue to try to close us in, for sure.
There's literally a work around for Google making YouTube videos ~~pose~~ pause for 5 seconds before playing on Firefox due to adblocker use. It's to use the adblocker to trick Google into thinking Firefox is chrome.
They are also working on ways to let websites cryptographically authenticate a browser. So if they wanted to badly enough, that workaround wouldn’t work.
I don't necessarily agree. I see what you're saying but they've been losing this pretty much at every turn.
They haven’t really tried because of anti trust. They need buy in from other major players and then they will be successful.