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.
Firefox is looking to implement Manifest V3 to keep extension feature parity with Chromium, but their version will not ban the one API that adblockers use. So Firefox will eventually be V3 compliant
Maybe it’s my tinfoil hat but if any part of this is related to
theirgoogle’s pursuit of ad revenue, I don’t imagine a v3 compliant Firefox will work with adblock for long.At the very least they would probably make using it a huge headache
edit to make it clear who I was referring to
Firefox has ad revenue?
I’m realizing that was unclear.
I meant google’s maifest v3, not firefox’s implementation of it.
Ah, appreciate the clarification. I’d also just woken up and hopped on Lemmy, so maybe partially my fault 😋