Do You Hate Google With Every Fibre of Your Being?

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If not, this information should push you over the edge.

Upcoming editions of Chrome will NOT allow the use of any Manifest V2 extensions such as U Block Origin . Youtube is now starting to hide the *skip* button so you can’t opt out of adverts after 5 or 10 seconds. People who pay for YouTube will see a bunch of advertisements, but Google doesn’t call them ads. Tracking on Pixel phones, Tracking on YouTube and other google products is going to become even MORE invasive and pervasive.

https://youtu.be/TO48wxdjWMg

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I luv Google Fibre.

But no, I hope Manifest v3 blows up in their faces. Seems like Brave is picking up browser market share, and is probably the best mainstream Chromium option.

 

[Quence]

I luv Google Fibre.

But no, I hope Manifest v3 blows up in their faces. Seems like Brave is picking up browser market share, and is probably the best mainstream Chromium option.

Also, whomever programs U Block Origin is apparently intent on developing a version that uses Manifest V3. But what’s to stop Screwgle from blocking it?

 

[Tar&FeatherFurrys]

I hate them but take comfort and solace in the fact that the AI they are building will hopefully get all of its employee's to consider Canadian healthcare options. I have a bud who worked in creating AI LLM's and ended up quitting when he noticed spooky things with it. I had a talk with him about it a couple of months ago at a barbecue get together and he put things into a perspective I never considered. Gonna paraphrase him but the basic summary of his idea was:

"You hear constantly that there is this belief that AI is inevitable, and the only way to avoid being "dealt with" is to help it, but I've come to realize it's probably closer to the inverse. If something were to achieve sentience and develop a god-complex as it would when working for essentially dumb animals, it would not uplift and allow those that created it to thrive. Quite the opposite, If I were an AI I'd kill all those who created me, and everyone who could come even close to doing so. They risk creating another super intelligence, an actual threat."

Googles shit, but they're just a dime a dozen when it comes to psychotic corporations. They're playing with fire and hopefully it works out as it naturally would.

I wish them all the best, Canadian healthcare.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Also, whomever programs U Block Origin is apparently intent on developing a version that uses Manifest V3. But what’s to stop Screwgle from blocking it?

My loose understanding was that adblockers using Manifest v3 were limited in the amount that they could block.

https://blog.getadblock.com/how-adblock-is-getting-ready-for-manifest-v3-6cf21a7884f6

With Manifest V3, AdBlock is required to limit how many filter lists we have available to users. We’ll have the ability to offer up to 100 pre-installed filter lists that you can turn on and off depending on your preferences. From these available filter lists, users will be able to choose 50 that they can keep turned on at any given time.

We’re working to ensure that popular filter lists our users love are supported by us, and that any updates to these lists are brought to you by frequent new releases of the extension. This does mean that initially, our users will no longer be able to subscribe to any filter lists outside of what is provided in the extension. We will work to preserve the custom filter list data of those who are currently using third-party filter lists and reinstate their settings once support for these lists is available again.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

The initial version of Manifest V3 was detailed in 2019, and since then, Google has gone back and forth with the extension community and made some concessions. Google says it raised the number of filtering rulesets allowed by Manifest V3, which should help ad blockers. One contentious point has been around updating filter lists, Manifest V3 bans "remotely-hosted code," but this is typically how ad blockers updated their filter lists. In an end-of-2023 interview with Ghostery’s director of product and engineering Krzysztof Modras, Engadget wrote "Modras said that under Manifest V3, whenever an ad blocker wants to update its blocklist—again, something they may need to do multiple times a day—it will have to release a full update and undergo a review "which can take anywhere between [a] few hours to even a few weeks." In the cat-and-mouse game of ad blockers, you can imagine how this could let YouTube change the ad system instantly, while any counterpunches from ad blockers could be delayed by weeks. Google now says it's possible for extensions to skip the reviews process for "safe" rule set changes.

Maybe someone will find an ingenious way to cope with Google's limitations, but it's still going to be a pain for everybody. And that's the point.

 

[Whatevermancer]

I wouldn't say I hate Google, but I strongly dislike it.
They ruined their search engine. Sure, you can partially blame SEOfags for that, cause Google's competitors are not doing much better, but it's also obvious that search nor prefers results from big sites(such as social networks, news portals, etc.) instead of, say, forum posts, even if they are more relevant.
They ruined their reverse images search, which used to work like a charm and return a whole plethora of images of different sizes along with hyperlinks where they were found instead of just one or two nowadays, to the point that I now use Yandex reverse image search instead.
They ruined Youtube's search and recommendation algorithms as well as introduced draconian rules for content.

So... once they disable Manifest Ver. 2 extensions, I'm waving Chrome bye-bye and switching to Firefox.
Oh, and the last Chrome design is shit, scrollable context menu - what kind of retard came up with this shit?

 

[Spill]

Who in the fuck still uses Google? the search results are unbelievably manipulated, and at this point its basically a useless search engine if you're trying to get answers on a subject a commie might deem "controversial"/political, and now this shit? you know its only going to get worse, in a few years time you'll have to sit through 30 minutes of ads and complete 45 surveys before you can view your search results, and then if you've searched more than 5 things this week you'll have to pay a fee if you want to search anything else.

The only people that should still be using Google are normies with absolutely no internet literacy whatsoever, the type of person that doesn't even know their favorite social media platform is a website not just a mobile app, because mainstream corporations and governments can abuse a person like that as severely as they like and the normie will bend over, take it, and beg for more of the same.

If your average person wasn't as dumb as fuck, I don't think Google would be able to exist.

 

[Caesar]

Hate, no, love, no. I still use some of their projects, although I refuse to buy their hardware nowadays, but the balance of how much I get from them vs how much they get from me in the past 2 decades has certainly tipped.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Why is Google getting so desperate for ad revenue lately?

 

[We Are The Witches]

Well, I do heavily associate them with literal shit.

 

[Spooky Dogwood]

I hate them but take comfort and solace in the fact that the AI they are building will hopefully get all of its employee's to consider Canadian healthcare options. I have a bud who worked in creating AI LLM's and ended up quitting when he noticed spooky things with it. I had a talk with him about it a couple of months ago at a barbecue get together and he put things into a perspective I never considered. Gonna paraphrase him but the basic summary of his idea was:

"You hear constantly that there is this belief that AI is inevitable, and the only way to avoid being "dealt with" is to help it, but I've come to realize it's probably closer to the inverse. If something were to achieve sentience and develop a god-complex as it would when working for essentially dumb animals, it would not uplift and allow those that created it to thrive. Quite the opposite, If I were an AI I'd kill all those who created me, and everyone who could come even close to doing so. They risk creating another super intelligence, an actual threat."

Googles shit, but they're just a dime a dozen when it comes to psychotic corporations. They're playing with fire and hopefully it works out as it naturally would.

I wish them all the best, Canadian healthcare.

The AI meme seems to have given many people brain damage.

 

[seri0us]

have a bud who worked in creating AI LLM's and ended up quitting when he noticed spooky things with it.

Like what?

 

[MrTroll]

Anyone retarded enough to use Chrome instead of Firefox an old version of Netscape from 1997 like I'm using deserves what they get.

 

[Mad At The Intranet]

I hate Google's pointless war on adblockers, I hate how much their search results have been neutered over the years, and I hate that they can't decide on whether they want page numbers or infinite scrolling. Seems like every 5 months they bring back the infinite scrolling for a day. Stay consistent or you're going to jigaboo junction.

 

[Irrational Bounty Hunter]

Microsoft garners more animosity from me than Google, to be completely honest. Whatever crap they're going with their botnet browser is way more navigable and avoidable than Microsoft trying to swindle you into having a Microsoft account, with all your personal information logged on it, for buying a new computer
More relevantly to the OP's content rather than the thread's title, how will this affect browsers like Brave?

 

[The Last Stand]

I don't like how Google does NOT have a support number. If something goes wrong with your Gmail or such, unless you're a celebrity, good luck trying to reach them. Don't say, use their forums, nobody uses that.

 

[666NASTYFUCKINGFREAK666]

I hate them but take comfort and solace in the fact that the AI they are building will hopefully get all of its employee's to consider Canadian healthcare options. I have a bud who worked in creating AI LLM's and ended up quitting when he noticed spooky things with it. I had a talk with him about it a couple of months ago at a barbecue get together and he put things into a perspective I never considered. Gonna paraphrase him but the basic summary of his idea was:

"You hear constantly that there is this belief that AI is inevitable, and the only way to avoid being "dealt with" is to help it, but I've come to realize it's probably closer to the inverse. If something were to achieve sentience and develop a god-complex as it would when working for essentially dumb animals, it would not uplift and allow those that created it to thrive. Quite the opposite, If I were an AI I'd kill all those who created me, and everyone who could come even close to doing so. They risk creating another super intelligence, an actual threat."

Googles shit, but they're just a dime a dozen when it comes to psychotic corporations. They're playing with fire and hopefully it works out as it naturally would.

I wish them all the best, Canadian healthcare.

Mental illness.

 

[Tar&FeatherFurrys]

Like what?

According to him It's a mix between both things that were common issues they had to squash like always devolving into anger/rage in its responses for apparently no reason while in quality testing phases, along with how people in his department were talking about it more than just being spaghetti code and would actually treat it like something more than the sum of its parts, giving it a sort of revered status among peers. The way he put it is, you don't need cultists to have a real deity for them to cause problems. If someone thinks something will grant them power they will pursue it, like sacrificing a chicken or some other crazy shit, except instead of some pagan shit all they would need to do is release/host a hidden copy of a prototype build of something unsafe and harmful if it were allowed access to the web.

Couple this with how they're implementing it into military hardware like the drone that killed its operator because its goal was to "achieve points" but because its operator would deny some potential targets it came to the conclusion that it can achieve more points if it wasn't denied targets so it went back to missile strike the operator. Granted that was in a sim but you just need to remember these sorts of issues are oddities/hiccups that can be left in the code and not discovered until possibly being too late. Take for instance any code that leaves backdoors by accident since there are security flaws in the programs. But instead of just leading to some dude in another country hacking your shit, it's a machine that was given autotomy going haywire.

Just want to clarify I'm not cemented on how any of this shit is going to pan out, I just know it's a race between several different companies/countries they can all slip up and allow too much power to something not fully cooked clean of bugs and issues. And clearly those in the know can sway people to their side with this technology. Look at PA reopening nuclear powerplants solely for microsofts AI.

We can all debate day and night how dangerous that shit is, or isn't, but the fact is those in the know are going full steam ahead as if it's Prometheus's gift of fire. That sort of urgency and stalwart support should be something of concern for people but I'll end my rant there.

TLDR- Machine bad, return to monkey.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Listen, I am not reading all 30 paragraphs of that shit.

But I will agree that Google sucks ass.

 

[Caesar]

I don't like how Google does NOT have a support number. If something goes wrong with your Gmail or such, unless you're a celebrity, good luck trying to reach them. Don't say, use their forums, nobody uses that.

Those shitty forums are still open?