There's a lot of reporting about YouTube's war on ad blockers and Google's new Chrome extension limits, and most of it is wrong.
  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    744·
    10 months ago

    What a shitty article. The entire point is “well, they’re not wrong that Google is evil and clearly wants to kill adblockers, but they’re MAYBE factually incorrect on some aspects”, reported by the extension developers themselves (who may or may not be more knowledgeable about this than the author).

    Yes, it might be the case that extensions manage to work through the limitations and still limp along. In fact, this is probably what’s going to happen. The point still stands that MV3 will severely gimp adblockers and Google knows what it’s doing, the factual aspects of which (that the author doesn’t actually know about, by the way) are largely irrelevant.

    • kpw@kbin.social
      193·
      10 months ago

      It was the first article about this subject with explained at least a little bit how MV3 will hurt ad blockers so it was still an interesting read.

    • Aatube@kbin.social
      31·
      10 months ago

      It’s not maybe, it’s incorrect on the major aspect of every rule requiring a full update. There’s enough space for no-full-update-needed blocking of most ads and swapping out filter lists. Still, it’ll gimp the corners.

  • JimboDHimbo@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    10 months ago

    So am I wrong in assuming that the guy who wrote this article, is also the same person who posted the article here? Because they are both named Corbin.

  • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
    52·
    10 months ago

    I kinda agree, the whole adblocking space has felt very circle-jerky lately. Tech news writers are just cashing in on the hype with low quality articles. That said, even if google is not technically locking down adblockers, this does tend to be the first step towards killing such a thing. Its kinda the unspoken implication of the whole conversation

    Also, considering you are criticizing clickbait-y tech articles, you should probably stay away from clickbait.