Technology @lemmy.ml schizoidman @lemm.ee 3 wk. ago

Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon

arstechnica.com Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon

Chrome is warning users that their extension makers need to update soon.

Technology @lemmy.world schizoidman @lemm.ee 3 wk. ago

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Reminder #891,814 to stop using Chrome and Chromium browsers and to stop supporting Google's web monopoly.
- 3 more will do it! :p
- Why Chromium based browsers? I understand using Chrome might help Google, but how does using other browsers based on Chromium help them? By increasing market share?
  
  Yes. It gives them leverage when working on standard specs. And it can lead to stagnation. The latter didn't happen yet, but they already tried to push their agenda multiple times already.
Hopefully Firefox won't follow.
- Firefox currently has no plans to drop support for manifest V2. It also supports the WebRequest API in V3, so ad blocking would continue to work if they do discontinue V2.
  
  Awesome!
The only silver lining was they were also going to disable third party cookies, but they nixed that idea and kept this one. I’m done rooting for chrome.
- They were gonna axe the cookies in return for a generalized profile in your browser or something.
This can be problem for Firefox and Chromium based Browsers, too. If the Website decides that Manifest v3 is mandatory to visit their site, they can block any access from Browsers with v2 running in the background easier than before.
- Websites don't get to see what addons are you running
  
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/plugins
  
  https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/management#method-getAll
  
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/management/getAll
- Then I guess I simply won't frequent those sites.
- A site that does this is a site I'll never visit.
  
  The other 95% of all visitors will still want to see this page. If the most visited websites use such a blocking method, then most visitors will use Chrome.
Perfect time to move to Vivaldi, Brave, Librewolf, etc etc that wont be following suit. (yes the list does also include Firefox....but they bought an ad company and in my opinion are now compromised)
- Wait what? LOL
  
  Firefox is compromised because Mozilla bought an AD Company but Brave, an AD Company is not? Brilliant.
  
  You're both right, Brave has been compromised since the beginning, but Mozilla is also compromised.
- All Chromium based browsers are implicitly accepting money from an ad company because Google makes Chromium.
  
  Plus having any rendering engine have a monopoly is terrible for the web long term.
- I highly recommend waterfox

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