Re: Chrome's next update will kill adblockers

Nuno Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aaaanyway, there are other browsers out there, some which even support
> non-webext extensions.

True, but the only ones I'm really happy with won't work with most
of the Web anymore, and Firefox is only barely clinging on to
compatibility.

On the Mac side, I see Safari already did this in 2019, when Google
started trying to do it in Chrome too:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-neutered-ad-blockers-in-safari-but-unlike-chrome-users-didnt-say-a-thing/

"But unlike Google, Apple never received any flak, and came out of
 the whole process with a reputation of caring about users' privacy,
 rather than attempting to "neuter ad blockers." The reasons may be
 Apple's smaller userbase, the fact that changes rolled out across
 years instead of months, and the fact that Apple doesn't rely on
 ads for its profits, meaning there was no ulterior motive behind
 its ecosystem changes."

I guess Google's worked out that the "changes rolled out across
years instead of months" approach works for them too.

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