Chrome to Start Charging You in 2018

[az99]

Looks like Chrome will soon be my former web browser.No way I will buy into this BS.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/01/google-confirms-ad-blocker-coming-to-chrome-in-2018.html

[RoyB]

I bailed out of CHROME just last year. I liked it pretty good when I bailed away from the high data user Internet Explorer... Also haven't come to use any of the CLOUD things yet... They scare the H out of me haha Anyway last year I stared getting some virus's from Chrome and their ads so I closed it out.

Today I am using FIREFOX for most of my internet programs and some using the WIN10 EDGE which seems to not get bogged down any memory wise... WIN10 has my Internet Radio programs and their real good CARD GAME... Also I just recently started using the WIN10 'MY RADAR' program which has turned to be a real jewel of a WX program... It auto refreshes where all of the others just quit waiting for you to refresh it... Try that one out if you haven't looked at it yet... It looks great on my 24-inch monitor here compared to Intellicast or Weather Underground... IT has what they call a morph mode where everything grows and dies in a nice real like motion on screen.

When they start charging I usually find something else to use...

Roy Ken

[darsben1]

az99 wrote:

darsben1 wrote:

az99 wrote:
Looks like Chrome will soon be my former web browser.No way I will buy into this BS.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/01/google-confirms-ad-blocker-coming-to-chrome-in-2018.html

Please reread the article you posted. Then come up with a means to generate revenue for the companies that are out to make a profit. If you block ad's the publishers of websites for news, entertainment, etc get no revenue and then what.

I did read it. What part did you not see about pay?

"visits a participating site using Chrome, they will see a prompt that asks them to either turn off their ad blocker, or "pay for a pass that removes all ads on that site through the new Google Contributor." If they choose to pay the fee, Google will take a 10 percent cut. If they select neither choice, they won't be able to view the website.

So the website will block you if you use an ad blocker to stop ad's or you can pay a fee to have an ad free experience. It will be up to the website to decide if they want to do it. If you choose not to turn off your blocker you will not be able to view THEIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY which cost something to produce; or you can pay a fee to avoid the ads.
Did you work for free or did you expect to be paid for your output?

So the choice will be, see the ad's with no fee or pay for the privilege of an ad free experience.

[az99]

sch911 wrote:
None of this nonsense will be mandatory. So the title of the post is very misleading! Why is that, you don't like Google?

I do like Chrome. Where do you see that it won't be mandatory?
I was just passing along an article from CNBC that seemed relevant to discussions on this forum.

[D_E_Bishop]

az99, it looks like all the ad based browsers are going free with ads and paid ad free at this time. No collaboration between them, NOT. All seem about the same cost and have the same features and I'm ready.

I looked for something on line and before I finished, 3,782,996 ads appeared all over the screen from yahoo. Tried Google to search, same results, mostly different ads but same subject. I had made my decision but, but they bombarded me with useless ads anyway.

I think I'll go to the paid version.

[az99]

darsben1 wrote:

az99 wrote:
Looks like Chrome will soon be my former web browser.No way I will buy into this BS.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/01/google-confirms-ad-blocker-coming-to-chrome-in-2018.html

Please reread the article you posted. Then come up with a means to generate revenue for the companies that are out to make a profit. If you block ad's the publishers of websites for news, entertainment, etc get no revenue and then what.

I did read it. What part did you not see about pay?

"visits a participating site using Chrome, they will see a prompt that asks them to either turn off their ad blocker, or "pay for a pass that removes all ads on that site through the new Google Contributor." If they choose to pay the fee, Google will take a 10 percent cut. If they select neither choice, they won't be able to view the website.

[stickdog]

We're fulltimers may spend two or three days at a location then we're down the road. What I love about Chrome is I get Ads from the places we were 2 weeks ago.

[Irover]

Opera is what I've been using on both my MS computer and my Macbook and use Duck-Duck-Go for the search engine! Works for me!

[Chris_Bryant]

It's not chrome, it's the participating websites, and any browser with an ad blocker. It remains to be seen whether enough will join the bandwagon, but it basically means for some websites, you will either have to turn off ad blocker or pay a subscription fee.
It really comes down to TANSTAAFL- someone has to pay.

[darsben1]

az99 wrote:
Looks like Chrome will soon be my former web browser.No way I will buy into this BS.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/01/google-confirms-ad-blocker-coming-to-chrome-in-2018.html

Please reread the article you posted. Then come up with a means to generate revenue for the companies that are out to make a profit. If you block ad's the publishers of websites for news, entertainment, etc get no revenue and then what.

[NMDriver]

This is the coming to a browser near you issue. All the advertisers have been ripped off for years by "pay per view" adds. They are so desperate to be seen that they pay web sites without any way to verify that the adds were even viewed. That is why you see adds from major corporations on terrorist web sites.

Chrome already says it does not support my operating system with updates. So I guess I will be in the tech stone age and miss their new version of Chrome.

My main sites are subscription entertainment sites so I doubt if I will miss much.

[sch911]

None of this nonsense will be mandatory. So the title of the post is very misleading! Why is that, you don't like Google?

[Mortimer_Brewst]

It looks they are out to crush 3rd party ad-blockers.