This is pretty amazing! People are taking my WordPress plugin that lets you warn site visitors if they don't have an ad-blocking browser plugin installed, and making versions of the project for non-WordPress sites.
I have the cleanest website on Earth, yet Google sends traffic to sites like this one. I come to the conclusion that Google rewards sites running Google Ads. It makes sense because it makes Google more money. User experience can go to /dev/null 🙂 and good luck reading any of this. LOL.
#AdBlockers will be limited to 30,000 rules … no more
They will no longer be able to update themselves daily, but only when new versions of extensions are published (which Google sometimes takes up to 3 weeks to validate)
To sum up, #AdBlocking extensions will always be late on websites, and in any case will not have enough rules to cover all sites.
Slowing down the extension update process is blatantly security hostile, all because the biggest ad company is throwing a temper tantrum over people daring to try and take back control of what is allowed to run on their own devices #Chrome#AdBlockers#ManifestV3
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
Interested in reducing the need for ad blockers? Make things safer for the public. Users are only trying to protect their privacy.
The solution is to regulate the Ad Networks! Establish limits on the types, quantity, and frequency of the data they can collect. Reduce AND limit the number of ad trackers a website can allow.
I invoke #fediverse omniscience: #Youtube keeps harassing me telling to switch off #adblockers but I do NOT use them. I just use #Firefox :firefox:
Does anyone know how to tell Youtube that?
Ok, ok, I should go other websites. This is on my todo list...
Ad blockers aren't just a convenience, they're a necessary first line of defense nowadays -- due to the prevalence of malvertising & various scripting attacks via social media posts. ⚔️
I've already posted about this before on Mastodon, but I just had the realization that I really don't use YouTube very much anymore ever since the crackdown on adblockers started.
It's not a very enjoyable experience when there's a minimum of four or five ads per video so I don't go on there very much anymore.
It seems (to be confirmed) that #Google asserts this delay wasn't implemented to penalize directly #Firefox users or people that use different browsers from #Chrome. Instead, it was specifically targeted at #adblockers.
> Yes it's TiVo for Youtube. And this...THIS...is the real use case for desktop AI: Detecting ads and automatically skipping them. Funny how the AI barons never mention how AI can empower normies against them.
Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBOwill be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).
The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .
#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!
EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.
I'd be curious to see if, with #YouTube 's new war on #AdBlockers, there is any drop in subscriptions, views, likes & comments, or any scramble to find alternative providers to watch.
I find ads awful for all the civilization-destroying reasons, but also because I can't look at them -- too much flashing. I think the ad industry as a whole is in gross violation of the #ADA.
Currently my deathbed video consumption is mostly archive.org, but hey ... they're under attack too. Hmm.
I'm not against #ads on the net. I'm against constant barrage of ads. I'm against constant tracking. Show me ads like TV did in the 80s. It worked then. It can work now. Every fifteen minutes, show me a couple of minutes of ads. That's fine. It's not the ads for ads-sake. It's the kind of ads and the nefarious nature of ads. #adblockers#adblockWarshttps://youtu.be/_GARcKCaUfI?si=jCnFR5eRfpphFUA5&t=329
Cometh the weekend, cometh the #linkdump. My daily-ish newsletter includes a section called "Hey look at this," with three short links per day, but sometimes those links get backed up and I need to clean house. Here's the eight previous installments:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
But the dream of securing Google against its own users lives on. Youtube has embarked on an aggressive campaign of refusing to show videos to people running #AdBlockers, triggering an arms-race of ad-blocker-blockers and ad-blocker-blocker-blockers: