Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon (arstechnica.com)
from schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.ml on 05 Aug 2024 23:15
https://lemm.ee/post/38878121

#technology

threaded - newest

TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 23:26 next collapse

Reminder #891,814 to stop using Chrome and Chromium browsers and to stop supporting Google’s web monopoly.

1984@lemmy.today on 06 Aug 2024 05:10 next collapse

3 more will do it! :p

bokherif@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 14:06 collapse

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?

wito@lemmy.techtailors.net on 06 Aug 2024 16:14 collapse

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.

Mora@pawb.social on 06 Aug 2024 21:51 collapse

And it can lead to stagnation. The latter didn’t happen yet

I could argue that it already did when Google abandoned JPEG XL.

faintwhenfree@lemmus.org on 08 Aug 2024 03:50 collapse

That is a solid argument. I second this.

coffeejoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Aug 2024 23:53 next collapse

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.

InFerNo@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 2024 22:01 collapse

They were gonna axe the cookies in return for a generalized profile in your browser or something.

Aurailious@beehaw.org on 06 Aug 2024 00:49 next collapse

Hopefully Firefox won’t follow.

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Aug 2024 01:39 collapse

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.

Aurailious@beehaw.org on 06 Aug 2024 01:56 collapse

Awesome!

[deleted] on 06 Aug 2024 02:57 next collapse

.

Phegan@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 08:48 next collapse

I highly recommend waterfox

ZeroHora@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 2024 13:33 next collapse

Wait what? LOL

Firefox is compromised because Mozilla bought an AD Company but Brave, an AD Company is not? Brilliant.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2024 07:19 collapse

You’re both right, Brave has been compromised since the beginning, but Mozilla is also compromised.

JackbyDev@programming.dev on 06 Aug 2024 14:01 collapse

All Chromium based browsers are implicitly accepting money from an ad company because Google makes Chromium.

zagaberoo@beehaw.org on 06 Aug 2024 22:54 collapse

Plus having any rendering engine have a monopoly is terrible for the web long term.

JackbyDev@programming.dev on 07 Aug 2024 00:50 collapse

Yep. Hey, maybe Ladybird will develop into a nice fourth option long term. As far as I know it’s just Chromium, Mozilla, and Safari being actively developed. (I forget the names of their internal rendering images, I think blink, gecko, and webkit but I’m not sure.)

Deeleres@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Aug 2024 08:18 collapse

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.

mihor@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 2024 09:00 next collapse

Then I guess I simply won’t frequent those sites.

ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org on 06 Aug 2024 09:03 next collapse

Websites don’t get to see what addons are you running

drwho@beehaw.org on 06 Aug 2024 16:51 collapse

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/…/plugins

developer.chrome.com/docs/…/management#method-get…

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/…/getAll

oopsallnaps@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Aug 2024 18:53 collapse

Luckily the first link is for a deprecated property that returns a hard coded list for compatability reasons, and the other two are extension apis that random websites can’t access.

ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org on 06 Aug 2024 23:10 collapse

Besides, with uBO (or a custom addon or userscript) you can replace the value of that list, for all sites or selectively

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 2024 11:01 collapse

A site that does this is a site I’ll never visit.

Deeleres@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Aug 2024 11:16 collapse

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.

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 2024 11:58 next collapse

I mean. 95% of people uses, likes and tolerates shit I don’t tolerate. I don’t use said shit. My life has been shockingly fine that way.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2024 07:18 collapse

This is why Google is a monopoly and needs to be broken up.