cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11081020
A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.
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Please Firefox, when mass migration happens, dont let browser monopoly get into your head and change your policy.
I know the Ff code is open source and others can create forks. But still
yt link:
https://youtu.be/JeTp0khnWgoI haven’t watched the video, but judging by the thumbnail, it’s complete bullshit:
Actually manifest V3 is awesome as they reduce the permissions of extensions on the browser, which increases user security.
Main point is to tell that manifestV3 is not invented to kill adblockers. Many youtubers are misinforming users for views.
I can assure you that Google, an ad tech company with a near monopoly on web browsers, has an interest in eliminating ad blockers in the browser that they have direct control of.
So it won’t kill ad blockers?
Yes. Technically, no, you will still be able to have a very simple ad blocking addon, but for all practical purposes, mv3 will kill ad blockers as we know them today.
It won’t kill adblockers but restrict the dangerous permissions an addon / extension asking for.
One of those permissions allows the extension to display the website differently from how it is received. This iterally prevents ad blockers from doing their thing.
Indeed, but what I don’t get is why on earth do people spew this damn crap about manifest v3 as a whole, when the actual issue is just the removal of
"webRequestBlocking"feature that Google is about to bring along with their implementation of mv3. Why the hell aren’t folks mad about the actual issue but instead just want to be mad about the whole bloody thing, which actually also does bring some very real privacy improvements among other nice things.
Which are those dangerous permissions? It doesn’t change any of the permissions that allows extensions to read all site data, so it doesn’t increase privacy/eliminate data theft concerns
