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posted by chromas on Monday June 10 2019, @08:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the lynx++ dept.

Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to Ignore Chrome's Anti-Ad-Blocker Changes, Despite Shared Codebase

Despite sharing a common Chromium codebase, browser makers like Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi don't have plans on crippling support for ad blocker extensions in their products -- as Google is currently planning on doing within Chrome.

The three browsers makers have confirmed to ZDNet, or in public comments, of not intending to support a change to the extensions system that Google plans to add to Chromium, the open-source browser project on which Chrome, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi are all based on.

A few hours after reading about Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi breaking with Google blocking ad-blockers, I find this story -
Firefox may introduce a paid version in order to reduce its reliance on Google revenue

Mozilla, the maker of open source browser Firefox, is by no means strapped for cash; although the said browser is offered free of charge, the foundation has a lucrative search deal with Google.

Some of the revenue also comes thanks to its controversially proprietary online bookmarking service Pocket, and some from sponsored content and donations.

But although the Google deal is sweet – Mozilla is very dependent on it and nervous about the prospect, however unlikely, of losing it. Therefore it always seems be on the lookout for new revenue streams.

Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall

In an interview with German media outlet T3N, the company's CEO, Chris Beard, said that it's aiming to launch the new version by October, with features like a VPN and secure cloud storage.

The company's already experimented with a VPN service by partnering up with ProtonVPN and offering a $10 subscription. Now, the company's thinking of offering some amount of free VPN bandwidth to get you started, and then charge a premium for metered access in the form of a monthly subscription.

So - what is the future? Are browsers to be divided between "free" browsers, that play games with Google, and paid browsers, which thumb their noses at Google?

And, how will all of that affect those of us who routinely modify their browsers? Will we have to work harder, for the same effect - or will we just be shot down in flames? Surrender to Google, or pay to browse?


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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:06AM (2 children)

    by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:06AM (#854072) Homepage

    >I'm on Falkon

    Falkon is built on the Chromium core, so you're using the numerous contributions of people employed by the corporations and moneyed interests you have been warning about for years. This is by design of course; FOSS software is meant to be forked, used, extended, and Chromium is FOSS. It just seems odd that you're bad-mouthing the people who have contributed greatly to a tool you claim to prefer in adjacent sentences.

    >learning to use Surf

    The suckless philosophy is too much like Luddism to me, but whatever makes you happy.

    >false, overly-manicured Disneyland

    Is this a reference to Neal Stephenson? Ironically, Neal Stephenson has come to accept the Disneyland of modern user interfaces; he has become an Apple Eloi rather than a Linux/Unix/plan9 Morlock.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:27AM (#854134)

    It just seems odd that you're bad-mouthing the people who have contributed greatly to a tool you claim to prefer in adjacent sentences.

    No it's not at all odd. Life is complicated and not black-and-white. Good people also do bad things and bad people also do good things...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:48AM (#854138)

    he has become an Apple Eloi

    Let's see … Eloi live in a pretty world, but are preyed upon without really understanding what happens to them. Yeah, fits perfectly.