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> Why does Google mention only ad related addons in their blog post? Because the main goal of the transition to V3 is to effectively kill adblockers.
by bakugo 2y ago
> Why does Google mention only ad related addons in their blog post?
Because the main goal of the transition to V3 is to effectively kill adblockers.
- dualogy 2y agoWell at least the techie crowd can still use /etc/hosts (or the equivs on Mac/Win) which, if frequently-enough (weekly, biweekly, even monthly is enough) updated with the https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (or similar other projects if they exist), seems to "block" ads sufficiently well (no in-page DOM node removals of course, just network-unreachable image/script/iframe/popup URLs).
- skrause 2y agoEven Manifest V3 ad blockers are still a lot more powerful than DNS based blocking.