Google reveals the next step in its war on ad blockers: slower extension updates

[Rocky4040]

There are only few percentage that whine on internet, most of people will find their alternative... the premium since they can't live with ads and there is too much hassle to keep changing Ads blocker

This lesson already proof itself during Netflix password sharing crack down, despite internet whine their subscribers rise and also stock price rise.

From what I see in my office PCs, non geek will keep using Chrome... No matter what. It's like holy grail for most people. Some people they don't even know what is Edge and keep asking me when I use Edge or other in front of them when supporting.

So I can say Google will have their way in the end.

Yep they will just act like sheep and allow Google to do this to them. I would have no problem paying a monthly sub with YT if it was something like $1.99 -$2.99 a month I'll be dammed if I am going to pay $13.99 a month just to get rid of AD's. The AD's are happening way to often and most of them are very annoying. My favorite part is when YT tries to sneak in those 2-4 minute AD's in hopes you will forget to hit the Skip AD button and you watch the AD.

On my computers and phone I never see the AD's but I do see them on the Roku 4K TV because their is not way to block the AD's on the Roku that I know of anyway. As for Netflix they priced their way out of my living room along time ago when they started getting greedy and raising the price every year. I went back to them for about a year but we were sharing an account and splitting the monthly subscription. When they started the stop the password sharing crap they worked their way out of mine and pretty much everyone I know living rooms.

I actually do not miss Netflix at all. I found that on the Roku system there are way more options to get entertainment and 90% of it is free with minimal AD's for the free stuff. I sub to a couple of channels on my prime account and with prime and the couple channels we sub to it is still cheaper than Neflix and there is way more stuff to watch.

 

[Trapped Nowhere]

Yep they will just act like sheep and allow Google to do this to them. I would have no problem paying a monthly sub with YT if it was something like $1.99 -$2.99 a month I'll be dammed if I am going to pay $13.99 a month just to get rid of AD's. The AD's are happening way to often and most of them are very annoying. My favorite part is when YT tries to sneak in those 2-4 minute AD's in hopes you will forget to hit the Skip AD button and you watch the AD.

On my computers and phone I never see the AD's but I do see them on the Roku 4K TV because their is not way to block the AD's on the Roku that I know of anyway. As for Netflix they priced their way out of my living room along time ago when they started getting greedy and raising the price every year. I went back to them for about a year but we were sharing an account and splitting the monthly subscription. When they started the stop the password sharing crap they worked their way out of mine and pretty much everyone I know living rooms.

I actually do not miss Netflix at all. I found that on the Roku system there are way more options to get entertainment and 90% of it is free with minimal AD's for the free stuff. I sub to a couple of channels on my prime account and with prime and the couple channels we sub to it is still cheaper than Neflix and there is way more stuff to watch.

I believe blocking through the router is a popular way people get around it for those kind of devices and smart tvs

 

[Uniromax]

1) No longer use Chrome / ChromeOS
2) No longer use Youtube
3) No longer use Google

In that order. If it ever gets to the point where I can no longer control what appears on my screen, I'll just go find a way that I can.

 

[OortCloud]

1) No longer use Chrome / ChromeOS
2) No longer use Youtube
3) No longer use Google

In that order. If it ever gets to the point where I can no longer control what appears on my screen, I'll just go find a way that I can.

1 - Is an abomination, so not a problem!
3 - I wish the alternatives were better. I really want to ditch Google but it just does a better job than the myriad of alternatives I've tried.
2 - I love YouTube's content - how can we get content creators to upload their videos elsewhere and have them earn a living? Maybe some platform in which clicking 'like' on a video also pays them 10 cents or something? DTube looks good, just needs the big players to make the jump and who knows what snowball might start rolling.

 

[redgarl]

The day it will really happen, I will simply stop wasting my time on youtube. Let's not pretend it is some quality viewing anyway. Beside ARTE and some CBC content available on youtube, I am not impress with the garbage hosted on the platform.

Everybody is a parasite just begging for money from donations or advertisements of garbage product that are gimmicks or borderline fraudulent.

 

[Primey]

Long term Chrome user here. I've finally made the switch to Edge because of this. Google can piss off.

 

[Rocky4040]

I believe blocking through the router is a popular way people get around it for those kind of devices and smart tvs

oh I will have to check that out thx

 

[havok585]

The exact same thing could be said of internet explorer in the 2000s. Chrome was but a geek project, a few % of the market.

We all know how that went.

If chrome screws up its services enough, people WILL leave. It has happened before, it will happen again. No service is inevitable.

I'll use firefox when it's bugs are fixed (which is never) and they start actually listening to users instead of playing controlled opposition (also never happening) and they fix the privacy issues (you bet that aint happening).

To this day, firefox has occasional hard locks and crashes for no apparent reason, whereas chrome does not. And firefox REALLY struggles with the whole improting/exporting bookmarks when you have several hundred of them spread through multiple folders.

I have more faith in brave or vivaldi hard forking the chromium project and making their own codebase over firefox managing to catch up to the 21st century.

If google dropped the censorship, dropped the demonitization,a nd gave creators actual tools to fight false DMCAs and copyright takedowns, it would be worth $15 a month, especially given how much most of us will use it VS amazon prime, or netflix.

Never had issues with firefox, it's just you.

 

[WhoCaresAnymore]

"Kiss my ads"

 

[3volv3d]

Advertising should be illegal end of. Waste of money, time, jobs. Worse than lawyers.

 

[Gars]

They already own us (our data/credentials/etc./
and still wont more money by putting adds on what you watching
pretty bad behavior, the closest this days is blizz, putting beta version of something and ppl test it within their subscription

 

[Archean]

Does google want to lose it's chrome monopoly by giving all users a worse experience because some users use ad blockers? Many people switched to chrome because it was objectively the best browser at the time. Frankly, I haven't used Chrome going on 5 years now and I'm one of those weirdo fringe Linux users. Imagine what gimping the user experience in other aspects of your browser would do to fight one problem.

I see a lot of people saying that if people don't watch ads then they aren't paying for the service but that's only part of the story. Many people who use ad blockers have no interest in what the ads are trying to sell ANYWAY. Google is using it's ban on ad blockers as a way to scam advertisers out of revinue. Yes, ad viewership will go up but the amount of sales-per-ad will go down.

I'm only using Linux as my OS on almost every machine I run for nearly 3+ years now, and in this period I've developed a special dislike for 'Desktop GUI Environments', hence, I've probably turned into one of those weirdos.

Firefox is pretty solid solution indeed, however, there are some good privacy focused alternatives available for users, in recent weeks I've been trying Thorium Open Source Project, and it seems pretty good alternative for those who want Chrome based browser.

Google probably doesn't get it that people will always find ways to install required extensions (if they want to stick with chrome); hence it will only start a new arms race with users; thanks to 'Need' for Profits to rise each financial cycle.

 

[erickmendes]

From "Do no evil" down to "Do no ad block", geez

 

[oasked]

YouTube works fine in Edge (with UBlock Origin), for now.

I use Chrome for most browsing, Edge for work based activities (work computer) and Edge for YouTube at home. Works well for me.

The informed will adapt when roadblocks like this arise, as they always have. The masses will probably put up with it...

 

[Underdog]

I have to admit I haven't found YT to be an essential part of my online experience. There are far more convenient sources of entertainment out there and I sure as Hell won't be paying to avoid ads. Once in a while I find it useful to learn how to tackle a problem like how to repair a device or to see someone else's creative handiwork but there is a huge amount of total timewasting dross on display. I don't want to watch hordes of fat guys in baseball caps showing me how to open a box and place the contents on a table in front of them. I have better things to do with my time.

My attitude toward all advertising is the same. I am not prompted to buy something simply because some halfwit tells me my life will be better if I buy this or that product. He can bombard me with some catchy jingle that gets stuck into my sub conscious (are you listening, McDonalds?) but I still refuse to run to the nearest golden arches to be served some distant relation to actual food by some spotty yoof. I am sick to death of everything costing $xxxxxx.99. What is the fascination with everything having 99 at the end? And some special offer on a new mattress/laptop/solar panel installation that is so limited I must "hurry" or I'll miss out. I guess I managed to somehow avoid the brainwash, think for myself, and spend what little cash I have on things I need, not want. I don't give a sh*t if its the latest, greatest, most modern innovative piece of pseudo-technology so no amount of advertising is going to get me reaching for my wallet.

 

[arrowflash]

Couldn't tech savvy / power users just bypass Google's extension review delay, by manually updating the extensions directly from their official Github / websites instead of using Chrome Web Store? It's a PITA but it works.

And the extension filters themselves are never reviewed by Google and I doubt they can do it, since the filters are updated from external repositories, at least that's how it works in uBO.

 

[internetleechers]

Advertising should be illegal end of. Waste of money, time, jobs. Worse than lawyers.

If there are none, not many people will be here. Since I found this post via Google discovery feed (some kind of advertising from Google) and my browsing data collected by many website (cookies).

And also we won't have any series via television since they earn money from them. You only get government news to watch, if advertising are illegal.

 

[pmshah]

Does google want to lose it's chrome monopoly by giving all users a worse experience because some users use ad blockers? Many people switched to chrome because it was objectively the best browser at the time. Frankly, I haven't used Chrome going on 5 years now and I'm one of those weirdo fringe Linux users. Imagine what gimping the user experience in other aspects of your browser would do to fight one problem.

I see a lot of people saying that if people don't watch ads then they aren't paying for the service but that's only part of the story. Many people who use ad blockers have no interest in what the ads are trying to sell ANYWAY. Google is using it's ban on ad blockers as a way to scam advertisers out of revinue. Yes, ad viewership will go up but the amount of sales-per-ad will go down.

I use Chromium based Vivaldi. Don't have any ad blockers and have very clearly unblocked browser's own security. The stupid YouTube insists on its analysis. Just waiting for someone else to come up with something similar to YouTube and watch mass migration.

 

[yRaz]

I use Chromium based Vivaldi. Don't have any ad blockers and have very clearly unblocked browser's own security. The stupid YouTube insists on its analysis. Just waiting for someone else to come up with something similar to YouTube and watch mass migration.

I use Firefox with ublock and have had no problems.

 

[HyperPete]

Here a big FU to Google. I already use Firefox and DuckDuckGo. I guess I'll be looking for a tube replacement.

 

[Northy]

Google: We're going to knife the security and functionality of our main product unless you watch ads
Public: google search: best alternatives to chrome

 

[Archean]

Here a big FU to Google. I already use Firefox and DuckDuckGo. I guess I'll be looking for a tube replacement.

FreeTube (https://freetubeapp.io/) is a brilliant YouTube client on Linux, I've not used Windows in a long while now, but I'll assume it is just as good on Windows as well.

 

[ThatTechDude]

Imagine. You're developping your extension, you spot a major security flaw, you try to lauch a patch asap to fix it but Google decides you can't because it's too salty about AdBlockers