Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • astanix@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Turning off auto updates on chrome was convoluted. I assume everything will break when they force this update even with auto updates off.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s probably going to prevent security updates too and that’s worse than ad tracking.

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        6 hours ago

        looking at the 4“ woman poledancing in the bottom right corner of my windows vista screen

        Huh?