Google Will Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome

January 23rd, 2019

For safety.

*snort*

Via: Register:

Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including various ad blockers.

Adblock Plus will most likely not be affected, though similar third-party plugins will, for reasons we will explain. The drafted changes will also limit the capabilities available to extension developers, ostensibly for the sake of speed and safety. Chromium forms the central core of Google Chrome, and, soon, Microsoft Edge.

In a note posted Tuesday to the Chromium bug tracker, Raymond Hill, the developer behind uBlock Origin and uMatrix, said the changes contemplated by the Manifest v3 proposal will ruin his ad and content blocking extensions, and take control of content away from users.

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3 Responses to “Google Will Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome”

  1. Loveandlight says:
    January 23, 2019 at 12:17 pm

    There are some websites that will choke the living daylights out of your browser if you don’t have an advertisement-blocker of some kind.

  2. williamspd says:
    January 27, 2019 at 5:20 am

    I still use Opera when I want to do some serious ad-free browsing. Any other recommended options?

  3. Kevin says:
    January 27, 2019 at 5:36 am

    I use Firefox with uBlockOrigin, NoScript and DisableJavascript. Mostly I leave uBlockOrigin to do the job, but in extreme cases, I also use the other two plugins.

    finance.yahoo.com is where you can go to hone your skills. That’s the most annoying site I’ve ever visited. Video that starts playing automatically… I just hate that.

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