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Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] bluefirex 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That will stop working way sooner than you'd like. Freezing a browser isn't tenable at all, not just for features websites are expecting but also security issues. There's a reason every browser except Safari has a 6 weeks release cycle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Web tech doesn't evolve that fast. You can use a 1 year old version today without worrying about missing any website functionality.

What you're missing is features that the browser itself introduces, but in this case those would be anti-features so arguably Chrome will be getting worse.

Then there's of course the security vulnerabilities.

Of course the whole discussion is moot since there's a much simpler alternative, switching to another browser.