Correct. 65% of all human internet traffic is unmodified Chrome.
When Firefox was slow, Internet Explorer was clunky and didn’t render anything correctly, and scrappy upstart with a “Don’t be evil” slogan and great search engine Google came out with a new fast, memory efficient web browser, all us nerds ran out and told everyone “look! The internet doesn’t suck anymore! Use Chrome!” We were all amazed that we could have like 5 tabs open on our PCs with a whole gigabyte of RAM.
The normies echoed this through time, never unchanging - “my kid says ‘Chrome’ is the good one”. Even when sites started breaking when viewed in other browsers…didn’t we just finish fighting this “standards” war? Isn’t this what we destroyed Internet Explorer for?
Adblockers can still mute and stop the user from seeing the ads with black screen (or fast forward). Advertisers will still be mad.
Yes ik they disable the video controls but the video is still served just like before, just that they inject ads into it.
Reminds me of this post: https://lemmy.world/post/16500440
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This is why Chrome browsers wanted Manifest v3 or whatever- they took away the APIs for extensions to do stuff like that.
It doesn’t affect WebKit or gecko browsers though, or customised Chromium browsers.
Correct. 65% of all human internet traffic is unmodified Chrome.
When Firefox was slow, Internet Explorer was clunky and didn’t render anything correctly, and scrappy upstart with a “Don’t be evil” slogan and great search engine Google came out with a new fast, memory efficient web browser, all us nerds ran out and told everyone “look! The internet doesn’t suck anymore! Use Chrome!” We were all amazed that we could have like 5 tabs open on our PCs with a whole gigabyte of RAM.
The normies echoed this through time, never unchanging - “my kid says ‘Chrome’ is the good one”. Even when sites started breaking when viewed in other browsers…didn’t we just finish fighting this “standards” war? Isn’t this what we destroyed Internet Explorer for?