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corbin OP , to Technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

That's up to 30K dynamic rules, at least 30K static rules, and at least 1K regex rules: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/declarativeNetRequest#property-GUARANTEED_MINIMUM_STATIC_RULES

That seems like it's fine for general use, and those limits might go up again. EasyList and the other big lists can be consolidated to varying degrees with Chrome's rules format, and there's probably some dead rules in there. uBlock Origin on Firefox will definitely be more versatile moving forward, but every time I've used uBlock Origin Lite in Chrome it's almost the same experience.

corbin OP , to Technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

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corbin OP , to Technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

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corbin OP , to Technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

The article talks about Firefox too.

corbin OP , to Technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

Adblock users are still a statistical minority of web users. Most people don’t care (as evidenced by Netflix’s ad tier gaining subscribers every quarter) or don’t know those extensions exist.

corbin OP , to Technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

Except the part where it didn't imply that at all?

That performance cost seems to be negligible in uBlock Origin and other popular ad blockers that have focused on optimization (uBO has an explainer wiki page), but there were probably other extensions not doing that well. It’s not hard to see a situation where multiple poorly-optimized extensions installed using the Web Request API could dramatically slow down Chrome, and the user would have no way of knowing the issue.

corbin OP , to Technology in Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

What specifically is "google propaganda and fear mongering" in the article?

corbin OP , to Technology in The problem with GIMP

Yeah, the destructive editing and lack of a content aware fill is made me stop using it and go back to Photoshop. Krita also seems more usable these days in the FOSS world. The name is a lot easier to fix than those missing features, though.

corbin OP , to Technology in I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun

I didn't buy those adapters, I just used a computer that had a FireWire 400 port. I haven't found any evidence of those direct USB cables working with old iPods.

corbin OP , to Technology in I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun

I’m not quite that young.

corbin , to Ask Lemmy in Just saw this while getting gas. Why is it illegal to get less than 4 gallons?

E15 is a different blend of fuel, it's not at all gas pumps and regular 87/89/91 octane level fuel is still available (because not all cars can use E15 like the sticker says). Sheetz stations sell it in my area around Raleigh, NC.

corbin OP , to Technology in Steam is a ticking time bomb

It's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. Apple very obviously doesn't want the Mac gaming ecosystem to exist in the same capacity as Windows and Linux, but Valve also has an obligation to its customers using Macs to keep the service running well.

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