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

I’m right there with you. I hear people talking about how slow and bloated Firefox was, which I do not remember at all. I remember Chrome using some tricks to seem faster like preloading websites and preferential treatment for Chrone with Google websites and stuff, but in terms of raw performance I felt like they were roughly equal. I think the main reason for Chrome’s popularity is how firmly entrenched Google is/was with Google Search, Gmail, YouTube etc. and constantly having the “get Chrome!” ads pushed to users.

[-] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I remember it as, Firefox was fast enough, but Chrome was shipping a weirdly quick JS engine and trying to convince people to put more stuff into JS because on Chrome that would be feasible. Nowdays if you go out without your turbo-JIT hand-optimized JS engine everyone laughs at you and it's Chrome's fault.

[-] bc93@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I think Chrome did have a faster JS engine, but those days had way less JS than we have now, I don’t really remember noticing it, but it’s very possible that my web browsing activity wasn’t the same as other lemmy users.

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