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| Google to block Adblock from Chrome... again? |
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| sleemanj:
Chromium exists. |
| cdev:
There are good reasons why I don't use it. |
| bd139:
I take it no one read why they’re doing this change? Turns out the APIs used for content blocking have been used by a lot of not too honest plugins regularly installed by big names for click fraud, malicious rewriting and generally much dickery. So they’re turning them off as a security measure. This will kill off lots of nasty and stupid shit like Nectar, a fairly innocent sounding extension that gives you supermarket points for using the web. It does this by leaking everything you click to a third party. Also it kills all the horrid “adblock” clones which manipulate your data or do fuck all or upsell you shit. This is a massive problem across the board when it comes to day to day “end user” PC maintenance. There is an alternative which is the same as safari, edge, IE etc. This is the plugins provide a list of patterned URLs to block and the browser subscribes to them. That keeps the plugin out of the control loop of the request processing which makes the above scenarios impossible. Thus it’s a good thing. But that’s assuming Google don’t disallow certain URLs being added to the lists. If they did that there would be massive outcry and they would instantly be shot by GDPR for disallowing opt out. So they won’t do that. So everyone, chill the fuck out and stop reading tabloid rags like The Regieter. |
| amyk:
--- Quote from: bd139 on January 28, 2019, 08:31:48 am ---So they’re turning them off as a security measure. --- End quote --- Everything is done for "security". The only thing being secured is Google's profits. ::) Of course they're going to say it's for security ---- no one would agree if they actually told the truth. --- Quote from: bd139 on January 28, 2019, 08:31:48 am ---This will kill off lots of nasty and stupid shit like Nectar, a fairly innocent sounding extension that gives you supermarket points for using the web. It does this by leaking everything you click to a third party. Also it kills all the horrid “adblock” clones which manipulate your data or do fuck all or upsell you shit. This is a massive problem across the board when it comes to day to day “end user” PC maintenance. --- End quote --- It's not a problem, and even if it is, it's not Google's job to decide. (Hint: what is Google's main purpose? ...the same sort of tracking "third party" that wants to know everything about you. They just want to monopolise that space.) |
| bd139:
I think you're just paranoid and this is a better privacy outcome. It's about inverting the responsibility. Which sounds more secure to you? 1) Hire someone random to say yes/no to each URL. That person writes all the URLs down and sells them. 2) Hire someone to give you a list of URLs and you say yes/no based on whether they are on the list. Bold thing is impossible in scenario 2. This is security 101. Don't let PII / secure info leave your domain of responsibility. |
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