Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • @[email protected]
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    371 month ago

    Make no mistake, what Google is doing is absolutely dangerous. Malvertisements are definitely a thing. Back in 2010, I got a virus from an ad on a meme site that just went through and trashed my hard drive.

    It’s unfortunate that there are use cases out there where Chrome is absolutely required. Firefox can’t display large directories, for instance. It’ll lock up while chromium browsers work fine.

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      51 month ago

      If you have examples, maybe you can report it on their issue tracker? I wish the browser had built-in ways to report problems like how amd’s bug reporter works

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      21 month ago

      Can you expand on what you mean by Firefox can’t display large directories? Curious to see this for myself with FF and a couple of forks I’m playing with.

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        129 days ago

        The only example I can think of off the top of my head is something I’ll have to DM you.