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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: 0.693s | 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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amelius ◴[13 Jul 25 08:00 UTC] No.44548418[source]▶
We need webmasters to nudge people away from Chrome. E.g. show an annoying popup on opening the page or add a small delay.
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1. al_borland ◴[13 Jul 25 09:51 UTC] No.44548948[source]▶
We also need Google to stop showing annoying pop-ups every time someone goes to their homepage, Gmail, or any other site they own. They also need to stop promoting users on mobile to open links in Chrome, when the user doesn’t even have Chrome installed, and has chosen the “default browser” option 100 times already.

I’m so fed up with these nudges.

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2. kevincox ◴[13 Jul 25 19:23 UTC] No.44552791[source]▶
And most importantly these are anti-competitive. They are using Google's other markets to give them an unfair marketing advantage that other browsers do not have. Neither Firefox, Brave or anyone else can have these prompts on Android, Google Search. They are using an unfair advantage to take over the market against the common good.