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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by DolphinMath@slrpnk.net to c/technology@beehaw.org

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The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

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[-] Alto@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

I mean, yeah. They absolutely don't want to be spending bandwidth on those of us who use adblockers. What I don't think a lot of people realize is that Google is perfectly happy with the people who are essentially never served an ad not using the service anymore. Saves them money.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 7 months ago

I meant firefox and non chrome users in general but yeah

[-] tesseract@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Everything you said is correct. But the infuriating part is that YouTube reached that position by killing off its competition. YouTube wouldn't be the only one standing now if they had shown the same behavior 10 years ago. Even more infuriating is that there are a lot of people around who support this entitlement from Google - because you know, you're stealing from the creators! All creators should find a way to accept donations without feeding the abusive corporation.