Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome
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An explanation of Manifest V3, why it matters, and what uBlock Origin is doing about it.
  • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    30·
    5 months ago

    Great explainer about the changes, and reasons why it actually behooves Google to continue to allow ad blockers in some form. All that said…this still reaffirms my decision to go Firefox, always and forever, to get the most complete privacy options.

    • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM
      15·
      5 months ago

      I’ve used Firefox for so many years…can’t remember precisely. If there was a better option, then I’d be open to it.

    • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Firefox has been great since Quantum released. They finally fixed the performance issues and it’s still more flexible in what it can do than the Chromium browsers.

  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    Everything said in that article makes me very happy to have switched to Firefox.

    Google can dress this up all they want, but a happy byproduct of this (for them) is that they can now purposefully ignore rules/filtering for their own sites, such as youtube, since it puts the real control of such filtering with the browser (and the company who created it) instead of the extension. Yes there is a trust concern with extensions. And yes, there is a performance hit with extensions vetting each network call. But that’s the price we, as the user, should continue to have the power to choose to pay, but Google is forcing us to go their way.

    Thanks Mozilla, for providing user choice.

    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
      10·
      5 months ago

      With the number of trackers on most sites you usually get a performance boost with an extension vetting each network call