You're about to witness in real-time why monopolies are dangerously bad for individual rights and independence. A while back there was this uproar and all sorts of tips on how to circumvent Youtube's new adblock policy. One of those tips involved what to do when you use Chrome as a browser but in case you weren't up to date on it as a Chrome user don't bother because Google, owner of both Chrome and de facto Youtube has handicapped adblock developers in their Chrome app extension.
"Google's war on ad blockers is just gearing up, with YouTube doing its best to ad blockers and Chrome aiming to roll out the ad block-limiting...In addition to hamstringing Chrome's extension platform with no real user-centric justifications, Manifest V3 will also put roadblocks up before extension updates, which will delay an extension developer's ability to quickly respond to changes. YouTube can instantly switch up its ad delivery system, but once Manifest V3 becomes mandatory, that won't be true for extension developers. If ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game of updates and counter-updates, then Google will force the mouse to slow down."
This V3 shjite of theirs is also quite alarming regarding users' privacy and safety on the web, despite the money hungry filth at Google claiming the contrary: "Google claims that Manifest V3 will improve browser privacy, security, and performance."
Ohh do they now? Reality check: "it means ad blockers will essentially be crippled. That would be terrible news for users, not just because ads can be annoying, but because they can also be highly dangerous spreaders of malware – something Google doesn’t seem to be able to stop....Firefox’s Add-On Operations Manager pointed out that malicious add-ons can still steal user data in Manifest V3 using the webRequest API, which Google’s latest extension changes will not block. Privacy advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), meanwhile, have called Google’s Manifest V3 strategy “deceitful and threatening,” arguing that it is “outright harmful to privacy efforts.”
The article then goes on about alternatives like Firefox, which is not bad per se but in all honesty this is another unique opportunity for Brave to shine. They are already at record highs with almost 58 million users as of April 2023, so this might just send them over the 60 million hump come 2024. So don't stop talking about these better alternatives. The more people use it, the less users, info, data and hence power the likes of Google will have.
