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My ad blocker is part of my security.
Not your security, silly. Their security (financial).
A push for ~~security~~ revenue
Obviously, what else would you expect from these big tech conglomerates?
Hmm, weird. Using an ad-blocker is basic security advice at this point because Google and other ad companies don't vet their advertisers properly, so malware or phishing often makes its way into ads. But yes, believe Google's lies and stop using an ad-blocker for "security reasons". Honestly, these shitty big tech corporations should just go fuck themselves.
They mean ad revenue security
Yeah that's the only kind of security they care about. Fuck Big Tech! And most importantly, stop using their garbage services.
Some speculate this is an intentional move by Google due to suspected loss of ad-revenue. We don’t know
Oh, we know. It may technically qualify as speculation, but we know.
This reads like "gun makers softens triggers on guns to improve gun safety" or "baby formula makers poison baby food to build up babies' tolerance to poisoned baby food"
The FBI recommends that everyone use an adblocker as part of their basic security toolkit.
If your browser vendor has a problem with that, switch to a different browser.
I was about to comment on this, but my Android phone spontaneously rebooted.
Anyway. Before I was so rudely interrupted, I was about to say: Firefox. It is a thing. An awesome thing.
It's funny. Seeing this post was the catalyst for me to finally set Firefox as the default browser on my phone and start using it daily. Going to set it up on my work laptop tomorrow too.
Also stop using Google as your search engine, there are much better options like DuckDuckGo. You can also use Startpage if you like Google search results, it's a meta search engine that pulls everything from Google without exposing you to Google tracking.
Wtf is with the headline. We all know that is untrue - it's about Mr Do-no-evil's bottom line.
But does the average consumer? Because only like 37% of users worldwide use one.
What a messed up title.
The one and only reason they are doing this is to boost ad revenue.
Good thing I handle all that at the router!
Not same domain ads.
Yeah it doesn't get everything, but it gets the vast majority of stuff and I'm ok with that. I've been working hard at pulling down the videos I want from YouTube and uploading them to my peertube instance so I don't need to use YouTube directly anymore most of the time.
"We wanna weaken ad blockers because ~~we like money~~ of security."
a little tweak of title:
"Google to weaken adblockers on Chrome in a push for ad revenue security."
Whenever Google or Apple do something that affects your experience in the name of security then.... RUN
I will NEVER touch Chrome. If I MUST I will use Chromium once in a long ass while. Otherwise, fuck off your bullshit spying CIA/FBI/etc. website.
Does this make the company look good or bad? Does this hurt or help their brand?
They need to fix google search. Relevant results are the keywords.
Will this affect Chromite?
Yes. Only browsers not based on chromium won't see any effects from this.
It depends on the browser. Not all chromium browsers are including the change in their versions.
Chrome and all Chromium based browsers use the Blink engine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_engine