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If I learned one thing, when talking with people about stuff like that: Most people unfortunately don't care. Many don't even have an ad blocker to begin with.

I doubt most people use an adblocker.

Anyone who's aware of these issues or cares about them really should have been smart enough to switch to Firefox a long time ago.

I've seen this one before.

• A ton of people will complain
• Firefox will get a bunch of users for a few days
• 90% will go back to Chrome

That last 10% will be happier but that's just the way it goes. This is based on Netflix, Reddit, Twitter, and Microsoft.

The description is "Google will disable MV2 extensions in 2024, including ublock origin" and the title is "Google will disable Ublock origin in 2024"

YouTube clickbait title moment.

I use firefox btw

The majority of people on Chrome at this point are the same people that only ever used Internet Explorer until like 2015. They aren't even using Ublock, they don't even know what it is. The kind of people who have their nephew set their computers up for them.

Not sure they understand the flow on effects. Those of us being affected and work in the corporate IT space who have a lot of say in what browsers are used will simply replace chrome with Firefox on our thousands of machines nationwide without a second thought. They are digging their own grave.

Google when people don't stop using chrome and just disable ublock:

:)

Back before web browsers had ad-blocking extensions, we had programs like Web Washer. It was a local, ad-blocking proxy program that you ran along side your browser. To use it, you just changed your browser's network settings to point to Web Washer. And the ads would be filtered before they even reached your browser. It would be no problem to implement this again.

Google when people stop using chrome

Not so sure about that. I know more than enough persons who still like to use Edge (Internet Explorer).

It won't do anything to their market share. At work my colleagues keep asking me "Why don't you use chrome?" or saying things like "Isn't Firefox slow?". They simply don't know or don't care to know. Also Firefox IS slow or just doesn't work, not because it's a bad browser but I've been seeing a trend of websites being designed to make it appear slow, like YouTube takes 5 extra secs on Firefox to load videos Clipcham and Adobe outright not supporting Firefox on their websites. The internet is a clown show.

I'm sure some people will swap, but nah no way it's a meaningful loss

Ad blockers will still exist too, they just won't be as effective. If the layman installs an ad blocker and gets one less ad, they won't question it further

uBlock Origin has a Manifest V3 version, it's not going anywhere. I swear there are more people not reading anything here than Facebook.

Sadly, they know damn well that people won't stop using it

I wonder what is the thought process here, why wouldn't someone who went the length of installing an adblocker look for other browsers as options?

And everyone rediscovered Firefox and the world was at ease.

Anyone that really cared switched a year ago when they said they were going to do this. They told us they were going to do this publicly.

I saw a comment mention something about “power vs authority,” and that seems relevant here.

I stopped using Chrome a while back, but still use Gmail because I'm lazy. Every time I crank open Gmail in another browser, Google whines at me to use Chrome. That grizzling pop-up is now the main reason I don't use Chrome, and it will eventually drive me to migrate away from Gmail. DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

We still have maybe two years before they start destrying gmail. I think they're already itching

I remember when Chrome released and it was a hot mess performance wise. I haven't used it since and it doesn't seem like I'm missing anything.

It didn’t even make sense, because the point of Google was never to make money anyway. The point of Google was to make investors believe it was worth billions of dollars.