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It's not often that something annoys me so much that I have to post it. As I opened chrome I got a popup about "Smarter ads". This includes the ad topics that have been long discussed along with other ways for chrome to track you end to end. #switchtofirefox
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Related content:
* #SwitchToFirefox: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/switch/
* another example on how #google abuses it's #monopoly on #chrome for fighting #adblockers: https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk/102323061506790600
* a #joke about #Chrome, #Safari and #Firefox in a bar: https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk/102323121010402287 -
What you can do:
Switch to another browser. You see what a company having a monopoly on a browser does. We need #browserDiversity (for a whole lot more reaons BTW)!Here is how to switch to #Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/switch/
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However, that does not make them malicious. What would actually matter is a statistic on how many add-ons that used the API were *malicious add-ons*. (Re-read if you don't get the difference.)
That is a whole different story! -
1. Malicious: Many malicious add-ons used the API.
I am an extension developer and I can certainly tell you that all those malicious add-on's likely also used other APIs such as storage for saving data…
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In a hilarious blog post #Chromium devs they make very easily refutable "arguments" on why they block the old API for blocking content:
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarative-net-request.html
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Remember, it's not the first time #Google is abusing it's monopoly with Google #Chrome/#Chromium.
#Chrome's plan to block many of their adblocking add-on's is nearly finished.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-blocks-adblockers-in-chrome-and-everyone-is-mad/