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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 5 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.724s | source
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al_borland ◴[12 Jul 25 20:51 UTC] No.44545060[source]▶
Even if bigs exists to work around what Google is doing, that isn’t the right way forward. If people don’t agree with Google move, the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome (and all Chromium browsers). Hit them where it hurts and take away their monopoly over the future direction of the web.
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high_priest ◴[12 Jul 25 20:58 UTC] No.44545103[source]▶
Its not happening
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agile-gift0262 ◴[12 Jul 25 21:22 UTC] No.44545297[source]▶
I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.
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1. xg15 ◴[12 Jul 25 23:01 UTC] No.44545937[source]▶
That's nice for you, but the monopoly is still there. In fact, you've strengthened Google's side in antitrust proceedings where they pretend they are not a monopoly because a small number of people use Firefox.
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2. worldsayshi ◴[12 Jul 25 23:26 UTC] No.44546101[source]▶
Yeah I'm surprised Google isn't imposing the same policies on Firefox. They ought to have considerable influence on Mozilla.
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3. cherryteastain ◴[13 Jul 25 00:39 UTC] No.44546484[source]▶
What do you propose then? Be a browser accelerationist, let Google do whatever the hell they want on your computer, and hope for big daddy government to tell them to stop?
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4. xg15 ◴[13 Jul 25 10:11 UTC] No.44549057[source]▶
Google is already doing what the hell they want on the vast majority of people's computers. (As are Apple and Microsoft)

Sure, go ahead and install Firefox, LineageOS, etc. (I did so too and am a happy user of both). But I'm just saying that this is not fighting the monopoly in any way, it's just retreating into a bubble where we can ignore it for a while.

I have no answers as to what to do instead, but I think acknowledging that a strategy has failed would be a useful first step.

5. bornfreddy ◴[13 Jul 25 18:08 UTC] No.44552241[source]▶
They do. They are just more underhanded about it, but no worries, the effect will be the same.