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Head's up for anyone going down this route: uBlock Origin is going to be gimped when Chrom{e,ium} switches exclusively to Manifest V3.
by pritambaral 5y ago
Head's up for anyone going down this route: uBlock Origin is going to be gimped when Chrom{e,ium} switches exclusively to Manifest V3.
- fourseventy 5y agoWhats Manifest V3?
- pritambaral 5y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Manifest%20V3&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- favourable 5y ago> Whats Manifest V3? In simple terms, it's Google's attempt to stop AD-blockers interfering with their business model.
- josefx 5y agoModern browsers share a "standard" list of APIs for plugins, that makes it possible to write a plugin that runs in both Chrome and Firefox. Google decided to remove several APIs for "performance" and "privacy" reasons from the third version of that list. It just happens that all dropped APIs where used by ad blockers and that some of the announced "replacement" APIs weren't even able to handle the most commonly used static block lists. As far as I understand the replacement APIs where developed in cooperation with Ad block plus, which just happens to allow Googles ads under its acceptable ads program.
- fourseventy 5y agoThank you.
- nicoburns 5y agoI think it’s very much still an “if” not a “when”. Chrome will stop being a lot of peoples’ recommended browser if they do this, and could well end up losing them a lot of users.
- account42 5y agoI think it's rater a "how slowly" than an "if". Google will boil the frog until they can get their ad money.