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.
Lot's of people asking me why I filed a complaint against #YouTube for their illegal deployment of #spyware to detect #adblockers instead of simply paying for YouTube Premium.
The answer is simple - YouTube Premium has no ads but Google still use it to profile you for advertising on their other products.
I refuse to pay for any service which doesn't respect my fundamental rights.
And so should everyone else, because until they do, Alphabet will continue with their illegal #surveillance.
To all the people crying about "Why shouldn't YouTube be allowed to make money from ads!"
If I print a newspaper entirely funded through advertising revenue - and you pick up a free copy, do you think it is ok for me to break in to your house to make sure you are looking at the ads?
Because that is what YouTube are doing when they deploy their spyware to detect #adblockers #privacy is a #fundamentalright - fight for it or lose it.
If large websites respected our choices regarding ads (DNT is a decade old, people!) and served contextual ads when asked to not track, we would not need to use #AdBlockers.
Instead, for over a decade now web publishing industry's been hell bent on screwing readers over, ignoring clearly stated preferences, misrepresenting what they do with the data, and using dark patterns to maliciously mis-implement legal requirements when forced to do so.
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.
I'm wondering if you have any #thoughts on the "#Web#Environment#Integrity" proposal by some #Google folks. I wrote a short thread about it, but would be interested in hearing your thoughts before reading it (if you do read it - I'm not demanding it 😀 ).
Something very super cool about the #youtube ad blocking fiasco is that I actually PAY FOR YOUTUBE as I’m happy to compensate people for a service and use #adblockers as a crucial security tool, but since I have a bunch of different accounts and profiles to keep work and life separate, and they aren’t clever enough to figure that out or do feasible automatic migrations, I got to spend 6 hours painfully migrating 800 channel subscriptions by hand in hundreds of browser tabs. And it’s making me question subscribing to YouTube.
#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.
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.
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. ⚔️
Can someone please make a #AutoMaxResolution addon similar to #SponsorBlock that can be set to a default resolution or automagically selects the monitor / browser Window size or maybe one above as default instead?
Opening a video I'd wanted to look at on #PipedKavinRocks (https://piped.kavin.rocks), I see the comments (Always The Best Part Of YouTube, #amirite?), but no video, instead "initial player response is not valid".
mpv & ytdlp are hosed on this particular box, though I can try on another. I ... have suspicions there'll be issues there as well.
I don't rely much on YT anyway, but if it's a choice between nothing at all or forced ads, it really isn't a tough decision at all: nothing wins.
(Most of my non-textual information comes via podcast these days, YT does have some good content, if you can go hunting for it, but really, it's not that compelling.)
And in other news, I hear a birbsite now requires logins to read... That's ... even more idiotic than Diaspora*'s regwall landing page bullshit --- at least there if you do have a URL (and the post is public) you can read it.
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 think #adblockers are a necessity in this era of web. If a rogue adv infects my computer who's the responsible of the damage it does? The site owner or the adv manager?
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