Overhaul of Chrome add-ons set for January, Google says it's for all our own good
  • whoami@lemmygrad.mlOP
    16·
    3 years ago

    I’m a firefox/ublock origin user, but this has huge implications for the web moving forward

  • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    3 years ago

    2-3 years ago I remember there being some talk about this in various forums. I’m really not surprised given that Google is a trash company. I hate how Google alone can just decide what goes into a Web Standard and what a Browser has to do to be “usable”.

    I myself took a shot at writing my own web browser from scratch. Didn’t get that far into it. I lost interest because when I saw all the bullshit that a web browser has to support to be even semi-usable all my enthusiasm went down the drain. It’s literally impossible for a single person, or even a small group to make a quote on quote “usable web browser” from scratch. At this point it would be easier to just throw the current web in the trash and start over, honestly.

  • Seirdy
    7·
    3 years ago

    Funny that I just noticed this here, right after I posted my own thoughts on the matter: https://lemmy.ml/post/308999

    TLDR: Mv3’s declarativeNetRequest is a really good replacement for a subset of uBlock Origin’s functionality. If it didn’t herald an end to privileged extensions then I’d welcome it. But Google gotta Google; can’t take one step forward without two steps back.

    There are some valid reasons to use Blink; for those use-cases, I’d love to see a “de-Braved-Brave” fork of Brave that removes all the “cryptography-verified, decentralized pyramid scheme” nonsense but keeps the great content blocking.

    • whoami@lemmygrad.mlOP
      10·
      3 years ago

      I don’t trust anything from Brave; whole thing seems like a MLM to me.

      Second best option (after a revolution that eliminates google, I can only dream) is that a large enough org decides to write a different rendering engine so google doesn’t have a monopoly.

      • Seirdy
        7·
        3 years ago

        I agree about Brave which is why I said I’d like to see a fork that removes all the cryptocurrency nonsense.

        I think that among the indie crowd (not large orgs/corps) the best we can do is test our sites in other non-mainstream engines and stick to standards. The SerenityOS browser, Servo, and NetSurf are cirrently maintained; there’s also KHTML, Hv3, etc. Supporting one or two fully independent options in addition to the big three could go a long way.

  • Thann
    1·
    3 years ago

    Ideas are bulletproof.

    If google tries to kill uBlock, they will only end up hurting themselves. The backlash will be so severe they will risk loosing their stranglehold on the browser market.

    • makingStuffForFun
      1·
      2 years ago

      hardly. It’s like reddit and subs going dark for a couple of days. Nobody will care in the long run. Only users like us