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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Switched to Firefox at work today. Looks like I still need Chrome to do the VPN handshake, but the more of us there are, the more pressure we have on IT!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you still need Chrome, consider Ungoogled Chromium!

[–] Veraxus 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is that project going to maintain Manifest V2 support?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't have official information, but I doubt it. They tend to stick as closely to the Chromium experience as possible, with the exception of the ungoogled part, of course. Maintaining Manifest V2 support would also just be a massive amount of work, for which they likely don't have the manpower.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have no idea. I'd guess not, as it's not a strong fork like other Chromium-based browsers. Its main selling point is that it's nearly identical to Chrome, but with a lot of the Google garbage stripped out. I don't use it as a daily driver, but only when I need something Chromium-based like the use case mentioned by @[email protected]. It's very likely to work wherever Chrome does.

[–] Emptiness 4 points 6 months ago

I'm still confounded by workplaces that run the old nineties way of VPN handshake by browser. Clunky, clumsy just straight up bad digital workplace setup.

There is no reason to not do it the modern way where all the handshaking and connecting is done under the hood, hidden from the user. At the most you as a user should only see the tiny little systray icon switch how it looks.