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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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[-] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

I think people just genuinely don't know that firefox (and I suppose Safari) is the only true alternative browser i.e. Not based on chromium.

Safari is only "not based on Chromium" in the sense that the heredity goes in the other direction (Chromium is based on it).

Firefox is the only browser that maintains a rendering engine codebase fully separate from Chrome. That's why using Firefox, and evangelizing it to help keep up its marketshare, is so vitally important for the health of the web.

[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

Huh, I didn't know that about Safari/Chromium. Absolutely agree that having a Google-controlled browser monopoly would be catastrophic.

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