Google Chrome’s ad-blocking plan could be a privacy disaster

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 83 points 10 months ago

Name a more iconic duo then Google and privacy disasters

[-] Tosti@feddit.nl 75 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Purged by creator

[-] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

google and dead projects

[-] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml -2 points 10 months ago

YouTube and supporting content creators.

[-] Killercat103@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

The YouTuber would be better of if you donated 1 cent instead of watching an ad.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 57 points 10 months ago

This one and the Tux one have been getting a lot of use lately thanks to Chrome and Win11.

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I have embraced firefox as my primary browser now. I have a few remaining cookies on chrome that I have to re-establish in FF, and then I can't even imagine any reason I'd even need to use chrome again other than some obscure internal web app that I can spin up on a throwaway virtual machine.

[-] ridethisbike@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

TL;DR... Google is limiting how many rules that extensions can have. Ad blockers need ~300k to run effectively, Google will limit them to 30k in Chrome citing "privacy and a light weight user experience" as the reason. This change will effectively make ad blockers in chrome all but useless. The solution will likely mean switching to more privacy focused browsers, such as Firefox.

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 39 points 10 months ago

Brb, installing ad blocker part 1 through 10

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

So you just need to to some regex magic to reduce the amount of rules?

[+] LemmyPlay@lemmings.world 40 points 10 months ago

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[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

I interpret it as both, Firefox and Franz Ferdinand

[-] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago

Firofox pls chomsky-yes-honey

[-] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“Could” as if there’s a possibility it will respect your privacy lmfao

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

Google... could be a privacy disaster

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[-] Deregon@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago

Google [...] a privacy disaster

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Google [...] a privacy disaster

Googles "piracy disaster"

Gets pinged for targeted marketing and also flagged for IP criminal law prosecution capitalist-laugh

[-] mawkishdave@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

With that bs I have been changing everything away from Google. It takes a little work but I am looking the results so far.

[-] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

It made me install grapheneOS and I actually like my phone again.

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Same here. I daresay my phone is now finally again as nice as in the early days of smart phones.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Stop using Chrome then.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

Google *’s * plan could be a privacy disaster.

I thought it might read better not being so unnecessarily specific.

[+] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world -60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Blah blah blah blah privacy circle jerk click bait.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

Mainly we're talking about avoiding mass surveillance, not simply about privacy. There's no technical or practical reason to allow mega-corporations to track our every online move.

[-] Senseless@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago

So you won't have a problem telling me your address so I can make photos of you shitting and post them on the internet. Seen as privacy is just a circle jerk.