chagall@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle is pushing back the MV3 date againdeveloper.chrome.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down11cross-posted to: privacyguides@lemmy.oneinformatica@feddit.ittechnologie@jlai.luplanetdyne@fed.dyne.org
arrow-up163arrow-down1external-linkGoogle is pushing back the MV3 date againdeveloper.chrome.comchagall@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: privacyguides@lemmy.oneinformatica@feddit.ittechnologie@jlai.luplanetdyne@fed.dyne.org
minus-squaredarth_helmet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down2·1 year agoWhen they go forward with this, ad and privacy blocking will stop working and people will be pissed off enough to switch to Firefox
minus-squarePrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoPartly true. If I’m right there is already an UBo for V3 and it’s capable to block ads, although not as efficiently. If nothing major change happened with V3 that may affect this earlier V3 UBo the adblocking will still work (but poorer).
minus-squarereversebananimals@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agohttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
Can anyone eli5?
When they go forward with this, ad and privacy blocking will stop working and people will be pissed off enough to switch to Firefox
Partly true. If I’m right there is already an UBo for V3 and it’s capable to block ads, although not as efficiently. If nothing major change happened with V3 that may affect this earlier V3 UBo the adblocking will still work (but poorer).
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening