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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

Yeah, we saw this coming. When Manifest v3 first talked about.

Google an ad company are killing ad blockers. Yeah, that sounds right.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 3 months ago (8 children)

MV3 doesn't kill ad blockers. uBOL (uBlock Origin Lite) blocks ads, is by the same author and uses MV3. The issue is MV2 made it way too easy for malicious browser extensions to do bad things, like read the content of every page you visit. MV3 makes it much harder for malicious browser extensions to do these things, but makes it harder to do things like intercept network requests.

Some of these "features" that classic uBO used are available in MV3 but requires different permissions. Some of them could also be implemented with native messaging. The main uBO author though feels slighted by Google and went on a trash talking campaign against Google, and to be fair had a few good points. Anyway, most people on social media now care more about how Chromium and Firefox makes them feel now irregardless of facts. They think their emotions somehow are the same as facts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

From my understanding, MV3 kills vital features of ad-blockers in that

Some filtering rules do rely on the ability to read the content of the webpage, which can't be migrated, per the FAQ linked in the article
The declarative API means an update to the rules requires an update to the plugin itself, which might get delayed by the reviewing process, causing the blocker to lag behind the tracker. It might not be able to recover as quickly as uBO in the recent YouTube catch-up round.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

uBOL GitHub does a pretty good job of explaining some challenges, and some of them are better tracked in the issues.
Your second point isn't accurate though and MV3 does support dynamic rules.

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