Google has announced that it will move forward with Manifest V3 on Chrome, sounding the death knell for ad-blockers like uBlock Origin.
    • BitsOfBeard@programming.devEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I love Firefox, but we need more variety in browsers and Chromium is just making it worse! There has to be a way to make building browsers simpler without everyone ending up relying on the product that was designed to ruin the free internet.

    • Rocha@lm.put.tf
      01·
      9 months ago

      Sure, they just need to fix their annoying bugs on Android.

      Everytime I leave a tab open and switch to another app, it’s a 50/50 whether I return to a black screen and am forced to restart it or it just works fine.

  • donut4ever@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    That, my friends, is why we kept fighting for firefox. It doesn’t matter if you like or dislike Mozilla foundation, they have to exist because of shit like this

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Firefox has the same problem with V3, it has nothing to do with the browser, adblocker V2 will stop working, because are the advertising companies wich will use V3 scripts. For Chrome and Chromium the only thing is, that are no more V2 adblocker in the Chrome Store and installed adblock extensions won’t work anymore. after June 24. But don’t panic, the fact that adblocker V2 stops working does not exclude that there will be adblocker V3, the devs of these are not going to rest on their laurels either.

      • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        to my knowledge Firefox is keeping compatibility with most current extensions at least in terms of adblockers and privacy tools as they transition to manifest v3

    • ava@feddit.de
      01·
      9 months ago

      yet we already have a working implementation of ublock origin for mv3 by it’s main developer, gorhill

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        When I read about that like a year ago gorhill had clearly stated that the mv3 version’s efficacy is severely kneecapped and while it works as well as it can it’s extremely bad in comparison to the present version on Firefox and Edge

        • b0gl@sh.itjust.works
          01·
          9 months ago

          How is edge working better than chrome? It’s basically just a reskinned chrome.

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            Edge has been picking and choosing what features to carry over and off the top of my head announced they wouldn’t be merging in the most unpopular MV3 changes

    • whoareu@lemmy.ca
      1·
      9 months ago

      People don’t even know about manifest v3 let alone switching to Firefox. They will just use whatever google throws at them.

  • corbin@infosec.pub
    0·
    9 months ago

    This article is really wrong, wow. There is already a Manifest V3-compliant version of uBlock Origin, it’s discussed in this thread: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338

    I don’t know if it’s stated definitively anywhere, but I’m pretty sure the plan is to roll out that different version to Chrome users as an update to the existing extension. It’s going to be slightly worse because MV3 is still missing some API features.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      9 months ago

      that version works but it’s always been a lite version compared to the standard ublock origin with far less capabilities and features.

  • Veticia@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Not sponsored, I just genuinely like the product. Adguard doesn’t require manifests because it works outside the browser.

    On the other news I hope this bullshit is finally the straw that kills chrome.

    • datendefekt@lemmy.ml
      0·
      9 months ago

      Highly doubt it. So many other browsers on so many platforms (mobile, tv, Auto,…) are built on Chrome and will have this by extension.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        0·
        9 months ago

        And opening most links in Android apps still opens them in Chrome, even if Firefox is your default browser.

        Time for Android to get the EU treatment.

          • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
            0·
            9 months ago

            Where do you do that? There’s only an option for Default Browser as far as I can see, and that’s set to Firefox.

            • pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one
              1·
              9 months ago

              I honestly don’t know anymore as I can’t find it. Maybe it was just different in older Android versions, but now I akso just have FF set as my default browser and that’s it.

        • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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          9 months ago

          I have stock Android device and have disabled Chrome and everything opens in FF (including the uBlock addon) in-app. You are spreading lies.