Fortunately, this is mitigated by not using Chrome.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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My ad blocker is part of my security.
Not your security, silly. Their security (financial).
A push for ~~security~~ revenue
Some speculate this is an intentional move by Google due to suspected loss of ad-revenue. We don’t know
Oh, we know. It may technically qualify as speculation, but we know.
This reads like "gun makers softens triggers on guns to improve gun safety" or "baby formula makers poison baby food to build up babies' tolerance to poisoned baby food"
The FBI recommends that everyone use an adblocker as part of their basic security toolkit.
If your browser vendor has a problem with that, switch to a different browser.
I was about to comment on this, but my Android phone spontaneously rebooted.
Anyway. Before I was so rudely interrupted, I was about to say: Firefox. It is a thing. An awesome thing.
By sheer coincidence I am sure, YouTube (a Google subsidiary) just started "accidentally" degrading their performance on Firefox but not Chrome.
It's funny. Seeing this post was the catalyst for me to finally set Firefox as the default browser on my phone and start using it daily. Going to set it up on my work laptop tomorrow too.
Totally reads like an Onion headline.
Yeah, malware is often distributed via ads. They also track+expose information that could be used for spear phishing, identity theft and so on, if it falls into the wrong hands. So, ad blocking is certainly recommended for security.
Ad blockers: 1, Google: 0
Wtf is with the headline. We all know that is untrue - it's about Mr Do-no-evil's bottom line.
But does the average consumer? Because only like 37% of users worldwide use one.
What a messed up title.
The one and only reason they are doing this is to boost ad revenue.
That they even mention the word "security" in this is a farce.
It's still as insecure as ever, since a malicious plugin can simply spy on and report on your usage.
They meant their (financial) security, not ours.
Good thing I handle all that at the router!
Not same domain ads.
Yeah it doesn't get everything, but it gets the vast majority of stuff and I'm ok with that. I've been working hard at pulling down the videos I want from YouTube and uploading them to my peertube instance so I don't need to use YouTube directly anymore most of the time.
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a little tweak of title:
"Google to weaken adblockers on Chrome in a push for ad revenue security."
"We wanna weaken ad blockers because ~~we like money~~ of security."
Whenever Google or Apple do something that affects your experience in the name of security then.... RUN
Does this make the company look good or bad? Does this hurt or help their brand?
They need to fix google search. Relevant results are the keywords.
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