I've been saying it for years.... Chrome is the new ie
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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no the fuck it won't. chrome is not the only browser.
Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of ~~popular ad blockers~~ a large portion of the public using their vanilla product that stops ad blocking
google takes giant leap toward obsolescence
they want a walled garden much like apple has.
Sounds like chrome gonna lose a bunch of subscribers because fuck that
Why use anything from google? They’re an advertising company.
It baffles me. I told my dad I can get him adfree youtube in just 5 minutes if I install firefox on his phone.
His response was that he doesn't want to install "yet another app" as if it's a big deal.
I'm so often left speechless by this stuff. It's asinine.
Eat your ad slop then... Wtf else can I say...
They don't want to be bothered learning something new, they'll just stick to what works for them.
Learning what? There's no learning involved, unless you count pressing a different app icon and typing in youtube in search as "learning".
And in the specific case of my dad, he's no tech illiterate. He has Linux Mint on his laptop. He can get by just fine. He's just really fucking lazy with this stuff.
I can understand that.
I'm an early Xer, and my mom an early boomer. She's been a computer user since the late 70s. Right now, She does all these things, install a bajillion apps for things like the BBC and 10 other news services even though I have explained to her that she could have them all as bookmarks in FF, with ad and tracker blocking, etc.
She understands it. She does, but at her age she can't be arsed to open a website, bookmark it, then go to bookmarks, etc. I've even tried to get her to turn things into PWAs, which she gets ! But can't be arsed.
I'm an IT guy, the eternal tech support for friends and family. Now my eldest son is an analyst at a major telco, and I send him all the traffic, and sometimes even ask him to do or figure out stuff for me, because I can't be arsed. Same reasons I've been on Mint for a few years, until I discovered CachyOS. I started my Linux journey in Slackware, painfully downloaded as diskette images, and have been distro hopping all my life, using all major distros at one time or another. Now I can't be arsed.
Im still a tinkerer, a maker, homelabber, etc. but the mundane, I can't be arsed.
Whatever. Fuck you Pichai.
Just switch to Brave or Firefox, it's simple
Don't use Brave.
Eh, Brave is good enough after you disable all the bloatware. The search engine is also good. It is my second browser after WebLibre (Gecko browser built from scratch)
Brave is bullshit Malware.
Use Vivaldi.
Made by the people who made the original Opera.
Hyper customizable, ad, tracking, and pop-up blocker by default.
I've been a Firefox user since the days of mosaic. I used the original Opera for years, coming back to FF when Opera was bought by the Chinese. While I still have FF as my main browser, I'm now finding myself using Vivaldi about 50% of the time. Damn good.
Use Vivaldi.
also chrome-based, unfortunately
True, but one of the better options.
I disagree, because they'll eventually cave in and deprecate manifest v2, then you'll have to do without adblockers on vivaldi too
manifest only applies to extensions. Vivaldi's adblocker is built in.
let's hope they don't sold out then
It'll mark the end of Chrome for anyone who gives a shit about their privacy.
It'll mark the end of chrome for anyone that wants to use a website without 2/3 of it being filled with ads and slowing tons crawl because of all the invasive scripts
Who still trusts fucking google chrome? Fuck them. Firefox bitch.
Librewolf
No it won't... It WILL mark the end of Google Chrome though...
I don't know if it would, necessarily. So many alternatives are chrome-based, and part of the reason google was able to accrue that share to begin with was by putting a "get chrome now" in the corner of every search you did.
Most alternatives don't have that same kind of advertising reach to displace chrome, especially not for casual users.
I doubt there's many people who care about using add block who don't at least know what Firefox is.
Sigh.. I'm afraid you are correct... It's why we can't have a sane and wonderfull world.
No... It will mark the end of some of them in Chrome. Not in general.
What actually happens is that some people move away from Chrome, because ads suck.
They'll continue to work just fine in Firefox.
I think that the concern is whether a number of websites might stop working with Firefox if Chrome users consistently represent ad revenue and Firefox users generally don't.
I use Firefox, but it has relatively-limited marketshare in 2026. A lot of people just browse on mobile devices and on Android devices, and there Chrome's probably the default browser.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/
Chrome at 70.25%.
Safari at 15.72%.
Edge at 5.14%.
Firefox at 2.19%.
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It already has.
This is misleading.
UBlock has been deprecated on Chrome, for a long time. UBlock Lite is its replacement and will continue to function (albeit with more limited efficacy).
What they are talking about is a complicated series of command line flags to re-enable Manifest V2+installing UBlock from source… But who in their right mind would still be using vanilla Google Chrome and jumping through all those hoops?
It will be an issue for forks like Helium or Ungoogled Chromium. They’ll just have to patch in a native blocker, I suppose.
TL;DR: Headline is wrong.
Chrome users will notice nothing. The end happened a long time ago.
So use Firefox! On Android its ad blockers work well too
The fact there's extentions on FF & it's forks for mobile makes me sooo blown away anyone ever choses anything else!
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people are still using it?
Ublock Lite works just fine for me
This will hopefully move more people to use Firefox again.
Maybe 0,00001% of the user base will. People don’t care, us nerds need to come to term with this
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Chrome is the modern day IE. We use it for work, but not much else.
I used to manage software that needed to be tested in all 3 major browsers every time we had an issue, and that was the only reason Chrome was even in my work PC. I moved on from that position, so bye bye Chrome
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