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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)

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Reminder to switch browsers if you haven't already!

Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 5 months ago

I've been way more than a decade (closer to two decades) uninterruptedly using Firefox. I've never used chrome as a my main browser, ever.

But still, I'll be naive if I didn't recognize that this kind of shit will affect me even if it's just indirectly.

Next year they'll surely will be forcing many webs only working in "manifest V3 compliant browsers". I'm sure of that.

[-] TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago

Firefox is looking to implement Manifest V3 to keep extension feature parity with Chromium, but their version will not ban the one API that adblockers use. So Firefox will eventually be V3 compliant

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Maybe it's my tinfoil hat but if any part of this is related to ~~their~~ google's pursuit of ad revenue, I don't imagine a v3 compliant Firefox will work with adblock for long.

At the very least they would probably make using it a huge headache

edit to make it clear who I was referring to

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Firefox has ad revenue?

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm realizing that was unclear.

I meant google's maifest v3, not firefox's implementation of it.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Ah, appreciate the clarification. I'd also just woken up and hopped on Lemmy, so maybe partially my fault 😋

[-] thesilverpig@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I switched to chrome because they were the first to have each tab be it's own process so one bad site/connection did crash the whole program. Also the cloud based password saving across devices was super convenient.

Firefox does both now too, has better ad blocking, and is a little less invasive and bloaty. A lot less invasive if you know how to set it up, which I don't.

But yeah, Firefox is my guy again

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago

Same here. Made the switch back to Firefox a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall about where Google wanted to take Chrome with Manifest V3.

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