Technology

I'm warning Google that Google Chrome may soon be disabled on my devices.

Firefox my beloved.

meanwhile firefox lists it as recommended and also lets you use it on firefox mobile.

Google needs to be broken up by government.

Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

Google isn't just disabling an extension, they're attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.

IT guys will stop using it...

Which means they'll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won't ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward.

Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS.

Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol.

I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run.

You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.

Thank you Google I hope shitty moves like this drives enough people away to better browsers like Firefox. It desperately needs a bigger market share.

So, what they're saying is: Chrome will have severely decreased functionality and users will no longer be able to protect themselves from sketchy ads that contain scams, malware, and other nefarious bullshit (often hosted on Google's own ad networks)?

Sadly I'm far more attached to ad blocking than I am to a browser.

Yeah, we saw this coming. When Manifest v3 first talked about.

Google an ad company are killing ad blockers. Yeah, that sounds right.

That’s a funny way to say “you should uninstall chrome rather than leaving it unused” but I hear you Google. 🫡

The modern Internet is completely unusable without an ad blocker. Way to remake ie6, Google!

...Oh, no! Anyway. Just giving people one more reason to finally make the switch to Firefox or something different.

Google Chrome warns about disabling uBlock Origin. I warn Google Chrome that they're being a little bitch & they're going to lose users.

Sounds like another reason not to use Chrome.

Could turn out to be a good thing. All power users will dump Chrome practically overnight, a huge boon to the alternatives, that could actually give them enough momentum to compete with Google for a change. I'm sure they've considered this, probably an empty treat.

Thanks for reaffirming why I refuse to use Chrome.

I'm using Firefox or forks.

Oh no uses Firefox Anyway....

They started putting ads in Windows, a few users switched, but most still continue Windows.

Google will roll this out and a few users will switch, but most will just keep using Chrome.

We've already established that most users don't seem to care.

Good riddance then. Fuck chrome

I rlly hate how some sites don't work on Firefox

I guess it's a good thing I'm on Firefox now instead of Chrome.

Glad I have firefox as well but also looking forward to a cool new project called Ladybird. https://ladybird.org

Not sure if its the right one but glad there are more projects out there trying to jump into the game. (I know extensions are a long way off for it but i see it as hope.)

Also please consider running pihole or adguard home. Or any other full home DNS add blocker. It will help.

Google needs to be ended.

Google Chrome is about to be disabled? Got it.

🖕

Let this be my warning to Google that I will never go back to their browser when they do. Challas! ✌️

Google sneezes and your future is stolen by an ad that's selling it back to you. Google is too big to exist.