Most users (at least in my observation, in the instances and communities i’m on) on Lemmy are privacy minded, open source fans, linux enthusiasts , etc.
Google is evil and will suck up any data they can find on you and sell it to anyone that will give them a buck. Lemmy users don’t like that. (me either)
Google also makes a lot of money selling ads that are crafted for your likes based on the data they steal from you. Lemmy users also don’t like that (me either).
Ad blockers will hamper some (not much) of google’s ad revenue so they don’t like them. many users use Ad Blockers ( I use an ad blocking DNS server)
Recently Google announced that their Chrome browser would not allow ad-blockers because it’s changing the functionality that ad-blockers use (Google sucks, don’t use Google stuff)

So that is why it’s showing up an Lemmy a lot right now.

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I searched but could not find any announcement. Can you link where they say they won't allow adblock?

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not like they actually announced it. They wouldn't do something so suicidal. However, they have changed the code API that add-ons like adblockers use under the guise of "keeping people secure"

These changes have essentially neutered adblockers so they're only 10-20% as effective as they once were.

Firefox has gone out of their way to speak out against this, that it doesn't help privacy or security quite as much as they say and ensures their browser still includes the code required to make add-ons like adblockers work properly.

Firefox isn't the only option, but most other browsers are based on chrome. Meaning they don't have a lot of options. Some have opted to build their own adblockers directly into the browsers, howeever those adblockers aren't as good options as having an unaffiliated add-on that we can swap out if it gets dirty, and starts taking money from advertisers to deliberately stop blocking specific ads from them.

brave is a particularly bad offender. It specifically actually only blocks ads that don't come from its own ad service - using adblockers as a means to stop other ad services from competing with it.

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

You guys are talking about the removal of manifest v2. According to a reddit post in ublockorigin. The lite version will be very limited compared to the regular version. Fortunately, Firefox still works, and it won't be an issue for a while(on mobile and desktop)

[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://tech.co/news/google-chrome-ad-blockers-2023

[–] drekly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It, and Google's own blog, says June.

We're way past June and adblockers still work?

[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

“ In June 2023, the Chrome Web Store will no longer allow Manifest V2 items to be published with visibility set to Public. All existing Manifest V2 items with visibility set to Public at that time will have their visibility changed to Unlisted. In January 2024, following the expiration of the Manifest V2 enterprise policy, the Chrome Web Store will remove all remaining Manifest V2 items from the store. “

Looks like existing ones might still work until January?