Sure - but this isn’t just about chrome extensions. There’s a (good) movement towards standardised browser extensions that work in all browsers and all the major browsers (including Chrome/FireFox) are on board with that.
So, Chrome allowing ad blockers to function properly is good news for everyone. We don’t want to go back to a world where every browser needs a different ad blocker.
1000% disagree. The web, for example, would never exist if it was limited to a single browser - regardless of wether that browser was open source or proprietary, it has only been as successful as it is because it’s an open standard.
Web Extensions are finally going the same way - https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md — there have been attempts do this in the past, but they never worked. It is working this time and Chrome’s stance on ad blocking is a direct threat to that.
It was quite the Wild West with early browsers. Different browsers could interpret the same site in different ways. Some browser added their own functionality as they wished. There were no strict standards. Web developers didn’t exactly follow the W3C standards either. And then you could always do it in a Flash or Java applet if browsers didn’t support what you wanted.
This was also the time with the most diverse set of browsers. Today the web standards are much more formalized and more strictly followed, and ironically this is also the time where almost everybody use different flavors of Chrome.
Sure - but this isn’t just about chrome extensions. There’s a (good) movement towards standardised browser extensions that work in all browsers and all the major browsers (including Chrome/FireFox) are on board with that.
So, Chrome allowing ad blockers to function properly is good news for everyone. We don’t want to go back to a world where every browser needs a different ad blocker.
Making everything fall under one umbrella is never a good idea. Literally never. Especially in software.
I’d like to hold my own umbrella and not worry about somebody else pulling it off my head when it starts raining thanks.
1000% disagree. The web, for example, would never exist if it was limited to a single browser - regardless of wether that browser was open source or proprietary, it has only been as successful as it is because it’s an open standard.
Web Extensions are finally going the same way - https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md — there have been attempts do this in the past, but they never worked. It is working this time and Chrome’s stance on ad blocking is a direct threat to that.
it also opens additional possibilities for universally effective attack vectors. No thank you.
It was quite the Wild West with early browsers. Different browsers could interpret the same site in different ways. Some browser added their own functionality as they wished. There were no strict standards. Web developers didn’t exactly follow the W3C standards either. And then you could always do it in a Flash or Java applet if browsers didn’t support what you wanted.
This was also the time with the most diverse set of browsers. Today the web standards are much more formalized and more strictly followed, and ironically this is also the time where almost everybody use different flavors of Chrome.
It’s a trap, this is all bad. standerlise the internet, and then they’l be able to charge you for Xbox live ons team and more