I guess this solves the debate over whether Chromium browsers can be trusted. For those unaware the "upgrade" from MV2 to MV3 massively reduced the capabilities of browser extensions, degrading some and completely destroying others. This was mainly done to neuter ad blockers because they got in the way of Google's business model which is degrading your user experience and security so they can steal your data.
Brave says they disagree with the change but they don't have the resources to maintain MV2. They are maintaining a select few MV2 extensions which means they're probably fine for a relatively normie friendly privacy setup. It's a deal breaker for me though. If Google can do this to Brave there's all kinds of other bad things they can do. I don't trust any Chromium based browser at this point, and in any case there's one MV2 extension I use that Brave doesn't support. I guess I'll change to Firefox and maybe try some forks. I'm open to suggestions. I was actually watching a video about the Ladybird browser last night. It looks promising but it's not end user ready yet. They're aiming to go live some time this year. That's something to keep an eye on.
At work I am forced to deal with browsing without one and I will quite literally run some sites through a service that just returns the raw text of the website in order to make it readable.
I'm no coder, but I'm thinking a "workaround" for an adblocker would be to resize the ads to a 1x1 pixel frame. That way the ad is technically being allowed, the browser is verifying that it's being displayed, but it's actually not practically visible.
Dont even need to do that. You can make the ad believe it loaded and never actually load it. Modern internet structure is really weird. If you are ever curious, press f12 and look at what is on a very average reddit page. Its crazy how much shit there is.
I guess this solves the debate over whether Chromium browsers can be trusted. For those unaware the "upgrade" from MV2 to MV3 massively reduced the capabilities of browser extensions, degrading some and completely destroying others. This was mainly done to neuter ad blockers because they got in the way of Google's business model which is degrading your user experience and security so they can steal your data.
Brave says they disagree with the change but they don't have the resources to maintain MV2. They are maintaining a select few MV2 extensions which means they're probably fine for a relatively normie friendly privacy setup. It's a deal breaker for me though. If Google can do this to Brave there's all kinds of other bad things they can do. I don't trust any Chromium based browser at this point, and in any case there's one MV2 extension I use that Brave doesn't support. I guess I'll change to Firefox and maybe try some forks. I'm open to suggestions. I was actually watching a video about the Ladybird browser last night. It looks promising but it's not end user ready yet. They're aiming to go live some time this year. That's something to keep an eye on.
I think Ill give up on the internet before I go back to ads.
The internet is unusable without an adblocker.
At work I am forced to deal with browsing without one and I will quite literally run some sites through a service that just returns the raw text of the website in order to make it readable.
A service? Most browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari offer a native text-only Reader Mode.
Do they? I've never laid eyes on that feature.
I'm no coder, but I'm thinking a "workaround" for an adblocker would be to resize the ads to a 1x1 pixel frame. That way the ad is technically being allowed, the browser is verifying that it's being displayed, but it's actually not practically visible.
Dont even need to do that. You can make the ad believe it loaded and never actually load it. Modern internet structure is really weird. If you are ever curious, press f12 and look at what is on a very average reddit page. Its crazy how much shit there is.