When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slowe
For ad/trackerblocking no need of the ChromeStore in Vivaldi, also easy to install extensions from other sources, even scripts. Only bad for other Chromiums.
Is google going to make the internet free with guaranteed high speeds? If not, they need to quit stealing the bandwidth I pay for.
Ads fucking suck, and what Google is doing definitely seems like monopolistic abuse, but there are much better arguments against Google than what you’re saying. You pay your ISP to access content, not paying for the content directly. Analogously, imagine being mad at McDonald’s for not giving you free drive-through food… because you pay road taxes.
No, that analogy doesn’t work. Cox communication have confirmed that you are guaranteed the speed you pay for up to the cable modem. Ads use bandwidth. A more accurate analogy would be if you pay for a certain amount of time with a therapist, but throuought therapy, they stop to talk about something else but still count it towards your therapy time.
I think a better analogy would be paying for an all you can eat buffet, but every time you go up for a plate, Google shovels some of whatever they want onto it.
Oh sure, they try to guess what you might like by tracking your eating habits every time you visit the restaurant, but they still keep putting crap you don’t want on your plate that gets in the way of what you do want.
Oh, and also, some all you can eat buffets have a plate limit, after so many plates, you can only get a spoonful per trip. And Google still crams on stuff you don’t want.
Considering that the web was explicitly architected to allow users to control how they render documents, arguing that adblocking is bad or should be prohibited is exactly as arbitrary and ridiculous as claiming that Google is trying to “steal” my bandwidth by forcing me to download ads. That’s literally not how the web works. That’s why they had to consolidate a near browser monopoly so they could force this on everybody as a product policy.
The one thing that could absolutely kill Chrome’s market share… And they’re doing it. LMAO!
Mozilla couldn’t be happier!
I only use Chrome for work because our IT dept likes it. This will make it worthwhile to forgo their support and just use Firefox full time.
when the most popular browser engine is made by advertising corporation…
Yup, and that’s why I haven’t used Chrome as my primary browser in well over a decade. I went with Opera until they became a chromium clone and have been with Firefox ever since (and used them before Chrome was a thing). I only used Chrome for a couple years when it first came out, then bailed because other browsers were better in terms of features.
