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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Remember, Firefox is great and has no dependency on upstream Google code.

Use Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Preaching to the wrong crowd there buddy, you want to be convincing the exact type of person who isn't on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure ad experience will move some masses, I liked Chrome because Ublock works fine there, it has great extensions support and the best compatibility with the websites, but if you remove the adblocker support I would have moved (if I hadn't already) in a heartbeat

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

The one and only, my beloved 🔥🦊

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Firefox is my daily, but the fact I have to fire up a chromium browser to use web serial or midi is an endless annoyance. Mozilla won’t add that functionality as they see it as a security risk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

? I'm quite positive I've used MIDI in Firefox on hooktheory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, in my opinion it kind of is (though I'm not an expert on it). Except for convenience I don't think a browser should be allowed to access my USB devices. Though I would welcome it if it was enabled with the same kind of request that pops up when a browser wants to access the microphone or camera.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That is, quite literally, how it works in Chromium. Mozilla still sees it as a security risk, even with user permissions. Honestly, having to boot Chromium is a bigger security risk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

For a while I was a bit confused, because Mozilla said they would also implement V3 Manifest ...

by implementing Manifest V3 on its own terms, Mozilla saves developers who are switching to the new platform from having to support two different versions of their extensions (for Google Chrome and Firefox) at the same time. On the other hand, it allows content-blocking extensions that were originally built using the less restrictive Manifest V2 to continue working at full tilt.

https://adguard.com/en/blog/firefox-manifestv3-chrome-adblocking.html