Google finally rolled out the changes that permanently disable Ublock Origin on its Chrome browser, meaning users will no longer be able to block advertising. According to this article, "the problem started with Manifest V3, Chrome's new extension specification, which is supposed to improve privacy." By 'improve privacy' what Google means is 'disable your ability to block requests'. Firefox (which is the browser I use) meanwhile has reaffirmed its commitment to support ad-blocking. What's interesting about all this is that there has been a flood of posts on Reddit (which recently struck a $60 million Google training deal) criticizing Firefox for all manner of woes, from being slow, and broken, and having bad terms of use - none of these seem directed at readers at all; the purpose seems only to be to place them on Reddit, perhaps reflecting the suggestion in MIT Technology Review that "your most important customer may be AI", not people.
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