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Will manifest 3 really kill modern ad blockers? Like adguard and ublock won’t work as they do now in some upcoming Blink/Chromium version?

SeanAnderson 4y ago
They will work but not as well.
- NoGravitas 4y ago
  Correct: they will work about as well as DNS-based adblockers. The "cosmetic blocks" you depend on in uBlock Origin to block same-origin and in-page elements, the things that make Fandom wikis usable, will not work.
  - rightbyte 4y ago
    I had to check what you meant and turned of uBlock on a Fandom wiki. Ye, well, those popup ads are really distracting. Even pop-up video ads. Following your scrolling around. It's good to remind oneself about how the internet looks like to most people ...
satvikpendem 4y ago
That is correct. The creator of uBlock Origin, gorhill, made a post about it [0], and uBlock Origin actually works better in Firefox than in other browsers apparently [1]. [0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss... [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- SquareWheel 4y ago
  Your information is outdated. gorhill also released a version of uBlock Origin that runs just fine on Manifest v3.
  - satvikpendem 4y ago
    Just fine based on the limitations that were given, ie Manifest V3, but it is still better on Firefox.
input_sh 4y ago
It'll work as it does now on large websites, but smaller ones will probably not make the cut (due to filter list size limit). Anyway, there's already a manifest 3 version, swap uBlock Origin for uBlock Origin Lite and experience the changes yourself. Firefox promised multiple times that they're gonna deviate from manifest v3 on that front, so only uBlock Origin (proper) will only work there.

SeanAnderson 4y ago

They will work but not as well.

NoGravitas 4y ago
Correct: they will work about as well as DNS-based adblockers. The "cosmetic blocks" you depend on in uBlock Origin to block same-origin and in-page elements, the things that make Fandom wikis usable, will not work.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  I had to check what you meant and turned of uBlock on a Fandom wiki. Ye, well, those popup ads are really distracting. Even pop-up video ads. Following your scrolling around. It's good to remind oneself about how the internet looks like to most people ...

satvikpendem 4y ago

That is correct. The creator of uBlock Origin, gorhill, made a post about it [0], and uBlock Origin actually works better in Firefox than in other browsers apparently [1]. [0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss... [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

SquareWheel 4y ago
Your information is outdated. gorhill also released a version of uBlock Origin that runs just fine on Manifest v3.
- satvikpendem 4y ago
  Just fine based on the limitations that were given, ie Manifest V3, but it is still better on Firefox.

input_sh 4y ago

It'll work as it does now on large websites, but smaller ones will probably not make the cut (due to filter list size limit). Anyway, there's already a manifest 3 version, swap uBlock Origin for uBlock Origin Lite and experience the changes yourself. Firefox promised multiple times that they're gonna deviate from manifest v3 on that front, so only uBlock Origin (proper) will only work there.