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

submitted 5 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

They collect everything? I'm on mint. I want extensions, and not have to run my browser like I need to tweak an OS. I just want it to work. What do I use?

[-] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox

if user.js editing is too much of a pain then get plain librewolf, go to settings and enable history-saving:

search bar 'history' > scroll to 'history' > disable 'clear history when librewolf closes'.

supports extensions just fine too! :)

https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/ installation for mint

edit: why the downvotes? i cited a good source for my claims.

edit 2: hackernews post about plain firefox being spyware, mental outlaw's video on the topic and eric murphy's video on this.

[-] bc93@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Just use Firefox and don’t worry too much about it. Tech people are a bit crazy about this stuff sometimes. It’s just telemetry going to the Mozilla Foundation, it’s not a huge deal IMO. If you really really care then use Librewolf but prepare to accept the trade off that some websites just don’t work sometimes.

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