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Google to weaken ad blockers on Chrome in a push for security (cybernews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Starting June 2024, adblockers such as uBlock Origin and many other extensions on Chrome will no longer work as intended. Google Chrome will begin disabling extensions based on an older extension platform, called Manifest V2, as it moves to the more limited V3 version.

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 136 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

Fortunately, this is mitigated by not using Chrome.

[–] argo_yamato@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

This is the way

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 98 points 10 months ago (10 children)

"Security", haha yeah right

[–] radix@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

The security of their cash flow.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literally my reaction when I saw that.

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

they obviously mean their financial security.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

The security of their profits

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[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My ad blocker is part of my security.

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Not your security, silly. Their security (financial).

[–] callmepk@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A push for ~~security~~ revenue

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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They mean ad revenue security

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 39 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 35 points 10 months ago

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"

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago

By sheer coincidence I am sure, YouTube (a Google subsidiary) just started "accidentally" degrading their performance on Firefox but not Chrome.

[–] incognito_15@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

"much better"

[–] skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

As if you get actual results with google now days.

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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Totally reads like an Onion headline.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 18 points 10 months ago

Yeah, malware is often distributed via ads. They also track+expose information that could be used for spear phishing, identity theft and so on, if it falls into the wrong hands. So, ad blocking is certainly recommended for security.

[–] kurgal@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

Ad blockers: 1, Google: 0

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is with the headline. We all know that is untrue - it's about Mr Do-no-evil's bottom line.

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[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What a messed up title.

The one and only reason they are doing this is to boost ad revenue.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That they even mention the word "security" in this is a farce.

It's still as insecure as ever, since a malicious plugin can simply spy on and report on your usage.

[–] devz0r@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

They meant their (financial) security, not ours.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I handle all that at the router!

[–] ___@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not same domain ads.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

"We wanna weaken ad blockers because ~~we like money~~ of security."

[–] Companion1666@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

a little tweak of title:

"Google to weaken adblockers on Chrome in a push for ad revenue security."

[–] nfsu2@feddit.cl 5 points 10 months ago

Whenever Google or Apple do something that affects your experience in the name of security then.... RUN

[–] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

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