Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Google is TRYING to Annoy You”.
Google is resuming its controversial, manifest V3 extension format for Chrome, which it paused earlier this year following public backlash due to how sharply it restricts web filtering and ad blocking the original proposal for manifest V3 limited web filters to 5,000 filtering rules which Google has relaxed to A limit of 30,000 rules: U block origin, currently has over 300,000 filtering rules available to users. In June 2024, Google will turn off manifest V2, meaning that V2 based extensions will be unavailable from the Chrome web store and will automatically be disabled in users. Browsers. Google has argued that manifest V3 by limiting extensions will better protect user privacy and streamline Chrome. However, civil liberties groups and Security Experts have criticized these claims, as V3 also limits users ability to protect themselves, especially their ability to protect themselves from Google, who is responsible for a massive amount of internet tracking. It also appears that Google has hardcoded an artificial 5c loading delay into YouTube for certain users. This was initially thought to be targeted against Firefox and Safari browsers, because the delay disappeared when the site was tricked into perceiving the browser as Chrome. However, later user reports indicated that the delay could appear on edge and chrome as well – oh cool uh YouTube denied that this was a matter of uh which browser and heavily implied that the delay was instead. Int ended to punish ad blockers. So the campaign that Google is running against ad blocking is clearly ongoing and it will be interesting to watch how this plays out in the coming years, because it’s far from over the whole punishing ad blockers thing. I’Ve always found very interesting CU. They’Re, like we want you to have a particularly worse time, but we’re a publicly traded company. A lot of our money comes from amount of users, so we don’t want you to leave.
We just want to annoy you and it’s an it’s interesting, how they try to play that line. They’Re, like we want to annoy you enough that we can maybe push you into buying something, but we don’t want to annoy you enough that you leave so we’re going to make you wait 5 seconds. I guess whatever reason seems like kind of a nothing Burger, yeah um like it’s. I don’t get it like and if you’re going to make me wait, why don’t you make me wait 15 seconds and then make it skippable after five? Just I don’t know want to get it yeah, .