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Google to weaken ad blockers on Chrome in a push for security (cybernews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Starting June 2024, adblockers such as uBlock Origin and many other extensions on Chrome will no longer work as intended. Google Chrome will begin disabling extensions based on an older extension platform, called Manifest V2, as it moves to the more limited V3 version.

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[–] atrielienz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's literally a work around for Google making YouTube videos ~~pose~~ pause for 5 seconds before playing on Firefox due to adblocker use. It's to use the adblocker to trick Google into thinking Firefox is chrome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are also working on ways to let websites cryptographically authenticate a browser. So if they wanted to badly enough, that workaround wouldn’t work.

[–] atrielienz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't necessarily agree. I see what you're saying but they've been losing this pretty much at every turn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They haven’t really tried because of anti trust. They need buy in from other major players and then they will be successful.