• GoogleSellsAds@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    If you use anything Google, you are the product. This has been pretty obvious since the early 2000’s, yet people dive right into all the crap they release.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I use chromium for one thing, and it’s casting live sports to my Chromecast. My plans to implement a HTPC have just been expedited.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The modern Internet is completely unusable without an ad blocker. Way to remake ie6, Google!

  • arthurpizza@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    They started putting ads in Windows, a few users switched, but most still continue Windows.

    Google will roll this out and a few users will switch, but most will just keep using Chrome.

    We’ve already established that most users don’t seem to care.

  • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

    Google isn’t just disabling an extension, they’re attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.

  • time_fo_that@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Firefox ftw.

    I’ve actually been using Waterfox lately though because for some reason there’s a video codec issue on Firefox that makes YouTube videos not play correctly.

  • shimdidly@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m not worried about this at all. I don’t use Chrome anyways. I use Brave. It has a built-in ad blocker that works pretty well and I don’t see that going away.

  • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    …Oh, no! Anyway. Just giving people one more reason to finally make the switch to Firefox or something different.

    Google Chrome warns about disabling uBlock Origin. I warn Google Chrome that they’re being a little bitch & they’re going to lose users.