‼️ Google is about to disable all adblocker extensions in Chrome. Instead of letting the adblocker inspect traffic itself, extensions now have to hand Google's browser a limited list of filtering rules and hope for the best. This leads to weaker blocking and more ads getting through. Google makes the vast majority of its money selling ads. The company that profits from every ad you see also controls the browser most people use, with Chrome 149 being the last version supporting adblockers. For example, under the new rules, uBlock Origin cannot exist. For millions of people, that extension is the only thing standing between them and a wall of ads, trackers, and autoplay garbage. One user put it bluntly: "The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin."

Harry Halpin (@harryhalpin), CEO of @nym, shares why the surveillance Web is more dangerous than most people realize, and why most privacy tools aren't enough. 🎧 Listen to this week's episode of #TheBraveTechnologist, hosted by @LukeMulks, here: brave.com/podcast/e124/

🆔Starmer's plans for child-locked devices is a Trojan horse for digital ID "The only way to escape Starmer’s Great British Firewall and get regular internet access is to undergo a digital ID check on the device to register yourself as an adult user. Convenient, perhaps, for a Prime Minister who has failed to get a digital ID system through the front door" - @silkiecarlo