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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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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Honestly the way the internet is going do you need access to the majority of the internet? I feel like its pretty dead as it is now already.

Lemmy will still work because we mostly use Firefox, and i bet the same will hold true for many others.

Basically the moment mainstream internet becomes google only you will see nerds build new websites specifiably to cater to the non google crowd and i trust random internet nerds a hack of a lot more than a monopoly corporation.

BRING IT ON GOOGLE!, YOU CAN INITIATE THE PUSH TO CREATE A NEW BETTER INTERNET. ^Create demand for freedom trough your suppressive enforments^

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah nothing bad could ever happen from effectively removing an entire section of the population from certain parts of the Internet completely.

I can't imagine that ever going badly.

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

That's already the case. Facebook etc have been walled gardens (or prisons if you prefer) for decade and a half now.

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