Sounds like chrome gonna lose a bunch of subscribers because fuck that
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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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.
Fuck google. Get Firefox.
LibreWolf!
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...
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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 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.
people are still using it?
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.
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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Firefox users:
I mean literally though. "Good thing I use Firefox" was literally my first thought.
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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
How many times was chrome the culprit for problems?
It was often. Curiously enough, more often than Edge
Chrome is in a similar position that IE used to be. It uses its majority position to move web development away from standards and so devs need to write extra code to support both chrome and others - or make chrome only sites.
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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!
most "regular users" dont know about the forks, or even extensions.
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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
The other thing people on Lemmy / Hackernews/ Reddit don't seem to get is that people are not using laptop or desktop computers anymore. More and more people only have a phone and maybe a tablet. People with phones and tablets do not know what a browser is. It's baked into the system. Everyone on Android is using Chrome and they very likely don't even know it.
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And mark the end (actually a while ago) of my use of Google Chrome. What a xrap browser it has become.
You might not know, but you can say "crap" on the internet.
I HAVE REPORTED YOU TO THE INTERNET POLICE.
CONSEQUENCES... Will NEVER be the same!
X and c are right next to each other. Probably just a typo
You might not know, but you can say "crap" on the internet.
Nice!
- xrap!
- crat!
- crraaaab!
Well, I'll keep practicing.
crraaaab!
i have chosen. this is your fault. my wife blames youuuU!
Chrome is the modern day IE. We use it for work, but not much else.
Bullshit, there are other, better browsers who do not intentionally break basic security features like ad blocking. Switch to Firefox and Ublock Origin or any of the many forks it has.
If you are using Chrome, Brave, or similar, you should stop using it and switch to something that isn't shit. Ads are a major attack vector for malware and scams. If you are not blocking them already , you need to start immediately!
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