Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

Reminder to switch browsers if you haven’t already!

  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
  • exanime@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The problem is that Firefox has like a crumb of the market and it’s held by a lifeline given by Google itself

    There is no guarantee Firefox would survive the long term … Heck it would die short after Google decides to cut them off

    • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Back in the Dim Times (1990s), before ad-blockers appeared, there was a program called WebWasher. It’s basically a proxy server you run on your own computer and it contained all the ad filters. You just configured your browsers network setting to point to WebWasher and it would handle all the ad filtering.

      So even if companies completely remove extension support from their browsers, we’ll still have an alternative. :)