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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 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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[–] m_hrstv 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Vivaldi is cool af and I used it for a few years but ditched it for firefox the minute i read about manifest v3(2 years ago? don't remember). Not the devs' fault but I'll be damned if i allow ads on my devices.

[–] pyre 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

is that guaranteed to force all chromium browsers regardless? like, does that ban the ublock origin extension (or something to the effect of rendering it useless)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It does! However, uBlock Origin has a "Lite" version that works with Manifest v3.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

[–] pyre 1 points 5 months ago

wow. ok. time to experiment with Firefox forks.

[–] m_hrstv 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, all chromium-based browsers will be affected, sadly.