Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Google Chrome Goes To War With Adblock... AGAIN" video.

  1. The threat of MV3 is literally what motivated me to switch (back) to Firefox, after I was literally one of the first adopters of Chrome back in 2008.
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  2. You post on an Alphabet-owned platform... Not calling you out for hypocrisy, it's just that Google going down will take a lot with it (which is why I wish [competitors]¹ all the best) ¹recently any time I include the name of any other streaming platform—and I mean ANY—in my YT comments, YT puts my account in timeout for a day for "spam."
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  3. More importantly its ad-blocking extensions work on mobile. Sometimes I'll open a webpage in some app, and it'll render in Chrome, and it's shocking how much worse the experience is than if I click the "open in Firefox" dooblie.
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  4. As much as I hate how Apple forces all iOS browsers to use WebKit, I'm at least grateful that it's effectively capped VP8's market share. I also hear from web devs that WebKit is the absolute worst when it comes to actually adhering to standards, though, so 🤷‍♂️
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  5.  @max_im_um  I was fine with them collecting my data at the time because at that point everyone using Chrome was serving as a beta tester. This was also squarely in Google's "Don't be evil" era, when they had an unparalleled level of public goodwill.
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