Microsoft Denies Edge Is Getting A Native Ad Blocker (venturebeat.com) 62
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: On top of the slew of news coming out of Microsoft's Build 2016 developer conference, a story broke yesterday that Microsoft was building an ad blocker into its Microsoft Edge browser. While this would be a big deal, it apparently isn't true. "We have no plans to build a native ad blocker into Microsoft Edge," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.
Microsoft was originally referencing the extension support it is building into Edge, which would allow ad blocking to work exactly like any other desktop browser. For those hoping for an Edge browser with built-in ad blocking, well, you're stuck with 'niche browsers' like Brave from Mozilla cofounder Brendan Eich and Adblock Browser.
Desktop vs Browser (Score:4, Insightful)
M$ owns the windows 10 desktop, of course they would allow blocking ads in the browser. Blocking ads on the desktop, well, yeah can bet that's one thing that will never happen, not your OS, not your computer.
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Next idea will be to slow the startup at the perfect time. Only allow applications to cover the daily desktop ads after the user has been fully exposed to the marketing for a set time.
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That's BS, it has already been made clear that there will be a version of AD Block using new extension support.
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Here we go. Another MS bashing contest. There's nothing refreshing about coming here anymore. It's like talking to two dumb rednecks that argue that Dodge is better than Ford. Whatever happened to constructive arguments that aren't intending to just draw MOD UP from a few angry computer users.
"No ADs" will kill free services. You can argue with me until you're red in the face but that is just fact. No money, no service. Nobody is going to fork up their time, hosting expenses and whatever other expenses to p
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Exactly. And now the OS has ads built-in for things like Office 365 and Skype, and Cortana heavily pushes Bing services using ad-like "content" when you search, ads on the lock screen, and the useless appy apps also have ads. They're pushing VERY heavily for everyone to develop appy apps, which most of the time are ad-supported. MS is really getting into ads. Expect more and more of them.
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MS should get into malware too: they could greatly improve their profitability. By serving malware-laden ads to their customers, and then offering malware clean-up services and security software, they could make a lot of money. If it's OK for a large website like forbes.com to serve malware, why shouldn't MS?
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Contradiction (Score:4, Insightful)
An ad blocker would defeat the purpose of Edge. They will want a native *content* blocker so that nothing will obstruct the delivery of adverts.
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Opera Developer (a couple of versions ahead of stable) has native ad blocking. It works well, actually. It's based on Chromium but the Google stuff is ripped out.
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They did. From version 15 to about 23 it was pretty crappy (post code switch). From about 28 it became good again. From 23 to 28 it was usable. It's pretty good again. I typically stick with the beta build but I use different browsers for different things with different defaults so I have stable, beta, and dev installed. Err... At the moment, they're all running. :/
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I will remain forever wedded to Firefox, and if it goes away, then Chrome.
Firefox is just about to get the boot from my machines. I have membership (that I can't get out of) in some Yahoo groups. Due to a mail issue, I had to go to their web mail reader for a few days. Up past my NoScript and ad-blockers and all the other digi-condoms I have on my computers, the screen goes dark, and up pops a window trying to get me to integrate my Yahoo experience into my Firefox, then the screen scrolls down so I cannot simply hit the close button.
Sorry, Yahoo, sorry Firefox. Your Faustian
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Actually, native anything in a browser other than core browser functionality plus a robust plugin system seems like a bad idea in principle. Why integrate a built-in feature that's better off as a plugin anyhow? Remember Firefox and Pocket?
I'd like a show of hands (Score:3)
Who is going to trust an adblocker from Microsoft?
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Are you asking if I trust that Microsoft can make a web-browser that won't display pages the way they were designed? Yes, actually.
Native ad blocker (Score:3, Funny)
It doesn't block native ads, but if Trump wins it will have to block immigrant ads
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It doesn't block native ads, but if Trump wins it will have to block immigrant ads
I understand he plans to remove the torch from the Statue of Liberty, and replace it with her showing us her middle finger.
Niche browsers? (Score:2)
not mainstream but not as Niche as TFS mentions
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Built-in ad blockers (Score:2)
And Opera (Beta and Developer versions).
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