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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

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[-] flux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I actually believe this is an unwinnable scenario for clients. Just whenever the block app/db updates, automatically check if ads are blocked. If they are, have an engineer or AI iterate until it no longer is the case.

And the reason why blocking solutions can't do the same is that there's cery kittle money in it and not enough people working for free on it. Or that's atleast my hypothesis..

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

So train the AI to recognize and respond to obfuscation attempts. Hell, make the web whitelist only. People subscribe to the vetted whitelists and anything sus gets blocked by default.

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