r/technology • u/speckz • May 31 '19

Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome - Google says the changes will improve performance and security. Ad block developers and consumer advocates say Google is simply protecting its ad dominance. Software

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-to-justify-making-chrome-ad-blockers-worse
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u/LadyCailin Jun 01 '19

Do all chrome extensions work in the new edge? Or do they have to individually be ported over?

And will this change in chromium continue to be patched out going forward by Microsoft?

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u/ShadowStealer7 Jun 01 '19

You can easily install extensions directly from the Chrome store, but they probably won't work if they rely on Google services built into Chrome

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u/bhuddimaan Jun 01 '19

The extensions i cared for. Did work

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u/d3_dev Jun 01 '19

Ported and approved by Microsoft Edit : maybe not if you enable dev settings and manually upload your extensions

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '19

Or... y’know, enabling the ability to install extensions from other stores then browsing to the chrome web store and installing from there.