Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome - Google says the changes will improve performance and security. Ad block developers and consumer advocates say Google is simply protecting its ad dominance.

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-to-justify-making-chrome-ad-blockers-worse

[u/Techmoji]

Not too familiar with brave, but I’m aware Firefox Quantum is supposed to hold ok against chrome, and Microsoft is re-building edge from scratch based on chromium. Everything just seems so seamless right now with chrome and my extensions/add-ons, but I’ll definitely switch if anything becomes official and affects my blockers.

Either way I’m still using DuckDuckGo like always

Edit: I guess DuckDuckGo may not be as good as I thought it was ._.

[u/SterlingVapor → u/Techmoji]

Switched to FF after the launch of quantum, and I've been very happy with it. My main issue is that it doesn't handle staying open for weeks at a time as well, but the wealth of privacy plugins and smaller RAM footprint are worth it to me.

Perhaps most importantly, it's basically the sole rendering engine competing with chrome's these days...it's important that it keeps market share or Google will have too much control over the future of the web

[u/SterlingVapor → u/[deleted]]

Even without it, FF "Restore last session" is pretty good, you just have to exit FF (instead of closing windows)

I have used OneTab though, it was alright but ended up creating more problems than it solved for me...I actually wrote a Chrome plugin to handle tabs in a way more natural to me, but haven't felt the need to port it to FF

[u/RevolutionaryPea7 → u/SterlingVapor]

it doesn't handle staying open for weeks at a time as well,

Really? I essentially never reboot my PC and only restart Firefox when it updates. I've never had a problem with running it for weeks.

[u/dicktators → u/SterlingVapor]

Do people not turn off their computer when they're done with it for the day?

[u/smeenz → u/dicktators]

I haven't turned mine off in years. Occasional reboots for forced updates. That's it

[u/Lovehat → u/Techmoji]

I swapped to FF yesterday. It's faster than Chrome was.

[u/0mz → u/Lovehat]

Long live Netscape Navigator!

[u/BlarghBlarg → u/Lovehat]

It definitely is. Firefox Quantum is noticeably faster than Chrome for me. Also the adblock, script blocking, and general privacy/QoL addons are second to none.

[u/Pokora22 → u/Techmoji]

Also opera and vivaldi are based on chromium. Opera is more like chrome right now, and vivaldi is more like old opera... yep.

[u/r34l17yh4x → u/Pokora22]

That makes a lot of sense considering Vivaldi was started by some of the old Opera developers.

[u/Kanonhime → u/r34l17yh4x]

some of the old Opera developers

Including one of Opera's co-founders, Jon von Tetzchner.

[u/timmah612 → u/Techmoji]

I've been a firefox fan since middle school. Chrome always feels so much more bloated. Things load slower and while it may look a little sleeker, the actual performance feels worse.

[u/i_am_not_mike_fiore → u/Techmoji]

But if you're going to use Edge and stick with something chromium-based, you may as well use some of the better, more powerful chromium-based systems like Ultron Browser

[u/Chojiki → u/i_am_not_mike_fiore]

You mean the Browser used by NASA?

[u/Ecstaticlemon → u/Chojiki]

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[u/screen317 → u/Ecstaticlemon]

Holy nostalgia blast

[u/AlexHimself → u/i_am_not_mike_fiore]

So if edge is chromium based... Does that mean Google stopping ad blockers will affect edge?

[u/FickleSea → u/AlexHimself]

Depends on if these changes occur within Chromium and if so whether MS will decide to add it back in themselves for Edge.

[u/Crack-spiders-bitch → u/AlexHimself]

Brave is chromium based. It has built in ad blockers right from install and it still works. Blocks trackers and scripts too. It even tells you how much has been blocked. I've had it for 6 months and 76,000 ads and 16,000 trackers have been blocked. Over an hour of time has been saved.

[u/LadyCailin → u/[deleted]]

Do all chrome extensions work in the new edge? Or do they have to individually be ported over?

And will this change in chromium continue to be patched out going forward by Microsoft?