You will have to make a choice as the page will be frozen until you do. https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/01/all-chrome-users-will-see-popups-in-the-coming-weeks-here-is-why/
This is bad, right? Luckily I have Brave and Firefox on my Juno (Ubuntu) and MBA laptops. Looks like my Chromebook is shagged though.
Pretty sad that ads and the whole advertising culture has become so entrenched in daily life that there are ad-specific settings in a browser, which is supposed to be a tool that *we* use, not one that uses us. (I know, that fight was lost long ago...) Also sad that Google portrays this (and killing 3rd party cookies) as a noble deed, glossing over the fact that it will likely be to their benefit (and ad revenue).
Hate to pop their bubble BUT all those ads interfering with reading sites and their subjects that interest us most? Forcing them onto sites like that does just the opposite, Turns OFF users and only serves as a mode of frustration. Many WILL NOT buy a freaking one of anything ad related forced at the page user. Totally revenue defeating if you ask me, Somebody tell me that i am wrong about that and explain your opinion to the contrary.
Yeah, ads are a turn off and a PITA for most people. I don't honestly see them really creating that much revenue.
I can imagine them creating revenue. I'd personally be okay with seeing ads if they weren't so damn annoying.
They must generate revenue otherwise advertisers wouldn't keep feeding the Google/Facebook/streaming machines. Ads wouldn't bother me if they weren't so overwhelmingly intrusive. There's nothing more annoying than waiting to read a page because the ads are loading and the video is buffering. Especially annoying are self-start video ads on a page with video, so you get multiple audio tracks running simultaneously. Or ads that consume more space than content on a small device. Or popup ads that keep showing up on every scrolldown. I used to feel guilty clicking on "Continue without supporting us" when the ad-blocker is detected, but no longer; advertisers and sites did it to themselves, they couldn't be happy with a few well-placed ads, they had to plaster the walls, crank up the volume, and shove it in your face.
Same over here, I do think websites should be able to make money, and perhaps they would also stop with this paywall crap if they could. Now that I think about it, Google Topics would actually be cool if they stopped with the tracking. Why not tell the browser what your interests are, and all ads will be geared to your interests and won't track you, plus ads will be static. Because that's why I started to use adblockers, animated ads would distract me and it would make websites very slow to load. And browsers have no business monitoring each website that I visit. Seriously, how dumb are these guys?
Update on the plan for phase-out of third-party cookies on Chrome https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_...r-phase-out-of-third-party-cookies-on-chrome/
