Starting June 2024, adblockers such as uBlock Origin and many other extensions on Chrome will no longer work as intended. Google Chrome will begin disabling extensions based on an older extension platform, called Manifest V2, as it moves to the more limited V3 version.
“Security”, haha yeah right
The security of their cash flow.
Literally my reaction when I saw that.
they obviously mean their financial security.
An extension having access to everything on every page you visit is a potential security issue.
Whether that’s an acceptable risk for you in order to have an extension that blocks ads is another question.
Extensions by definition are a security issue. For that matter, so is being connected to the Internet in the case of a browser.
As far as I know, the plan for Manifest V3 only included removing blocking from the WebRequest API and extensions using WebRequest could still see whatever activity they are given permission to view.
Fortunately, this is mitigated by not using Chrome.
This is the way
A push for
securityrevenueSome speculate this is an intentional move by Google due to suspected loss of ad-revenue. We don’t know
Oh, we know. It may technically qualify as speculation, but we know.
I was about to comment on this, but my Android phone spontaneously rebooted.
Anyway. Before I was so rudely interrupted, I was about to say: Firefox. It is a thing. An awesome thing.
By sheer coincidence I am sure, YouTube (a Google subsidiary) just started “accidentally” degrading their performance on Firefox but not Chrome.
Totally reads like an Onion headline.
What a messed up title.
The one and only reason they are doing this is to boost ad revenue.
That they even mention the word “security” in this is a farce.
It’s still as insecure as ever, since a malicious plugin can simply spy on and report on your usage.
They meant their (financial) security, not ours.
Good thing I handle all that at the router!
Not same domain ads.
Yeah it doesn’t get everything, but it gets the vast majority of stuff and I’m ok with that. I’ve been working hard at pulling down the videos I want from YouTube and uploading them to my peertube instance so I don’t need to use YouTube directly anymore most of the time.
Will this affect Chromite?
Yes. Only browsers not based on chromium won’t see any effects from this.
Chrome and all Chromium based browsers use the Blink engine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_engine
I will NEVER touch Chrome. If I MUST I will use Chromium once in a long ass while. Otherwise, fuck off your bullshit spying CIA/FBI/etc. website.
Wtf is with the headline. We all know that is untrue - it’s about Mr Do-no-evil’s bottom line.