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

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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@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

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@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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)?

[-] NatoBoram@mastodon.social 3 points 6 months ago

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

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

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

wow. ok. time to experiment with Firefox forks.

[-] m_hrstv@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

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

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