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Chrome, in its next update, will prevent websites from blocking how many entries they read for free

Future update of Google Chrome will end the blockade that prevails on some websites, which only allow a certain amount of entries to be read for free.

More and more users are betting on the use of add-ons in browsers to block ads. These AdBlocks are usually installed because more and more websites are adding playback ads that jump when you access. Websites now block users using AdBlock, asking them to disable it or pay to read the content. Google Chrome will combat this with future updates. It will affect websites that 'force' you to pay to read articles, something that has become popular in the United States.

Chrome will combat pages that prevent users from reading articles for using AdBlock

The Boston Globe, Medium or MIT Technology Review allow you to read a limited number of articles for free. When the quota is filled, they are forcing users to pay to continue reading the articles. There is a solution to activate the 'Incognito Mode', that by not storing cockies and other browsing data, we can continue reading without paying.

These media are very angry about this, as it is already with AdBlock. Many outlets have already started to block users who use 'Incognito Mode' to bypass this restriction. You can easily skip a restriction and read everything you want without having to go to the checkout.

Google will implement in future Chrome updates a solution that will deceive these websites. They will implement in the API of the file system 'FileSystem' to be always operational. It will not make any error report when the user accesses any web page, when this page tries to create a permanent file in the system. This file will be stored in RAM and will be deleted when we leave this website, preventing the creation of a permanent record. So users can browse the web they want without restrictions.

Source: TheVerge

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Robert Sole

Director of Contents and Writing of this same website, technician in renewable energy generation systems and low voltage electrical technician. I work in front of a PC, in my free time I am in front of a PC and when I leave the house I am glued to the screen of my smartphone. Every morning when I wake up I walk across the Stargate to make some coffee and start watching YouTube videos. I once saw a dragon ... or was it a Dragonite?

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