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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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janalsncm ◴[12 Jul 25 23:03 UTC] No.44545951[source]▶
“Sorry, we don’t support any browsers other than Chrome”

I agree exploiting a bug isn’t a sustainable solution. But it’s also unrealistic to think switching is viable.

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oehpr ◴[12 Jul 25 23:14 UTC] No.44546025[source]▶
Keep chrome installed and fall back iff forced to. That way the majority of usage statistics show up as other browsers so when developers are making guesses at which browser to support, those statistics will push them away from chrome.

Additionally: you would be surprised how infrequently you have to switch to chrome

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1. Andrew_nenakhov ◴[12 Jul 25 23:35 UTC] No.44546157[source]▶
Btw, the 'website requires chrome browser' problem is often solved if you just make Firefox user agent say it is Chrome.
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2. XorNot ◴[12 Jul 25 23:43 UTC] No.44546195[source]▶
The problem is this needs to be a standard Firefox feature.