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Clearly, Google is serious about trying to oust ad blockers from its browser, or at least those extensions with fuller (V2) levels of functionality. One of the crucial twists with V3 is that it prevents the use of remotely hosted code – as a security measure – but this also means ad blockers can’t update their filter lists without going through Google’s review process. What does that mean? Way slower updates for said filters, which hampers the ability of the ad-blocking extension to keep up with the necessary changes to stay effective.

(This isn’t just about browsers, either, as the war on advert dodgers extends to YouTube, too, as we’ve seen in recent months).

At any rate, Google is playing with fire here somewhat – or Firefox, perhaps we should say – as this may be the shove some folks need to get them considering another of the best web browsers out there aside from Chrome. Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has vowed to maintain support for V2 extensions, while introducing support for V3 alongside to give folks a choice (now there’s a radical idea).

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Doesn't uBlock Origin already have a Manifest V3 version of the extension?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago

That's uBlock Origin Lite, which the developer already stated is grossly inadequate for ad blocking.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

thr manifest v3 version is basically ublock origin lite, whoch has extremely limited control of what you can and cant do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

uBO Lite.

Not my jam, lacks the power of the original.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but it sucks, because of the heavy constraints of MV3

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yes, though the devs don’t even like it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yes, but capabilities are reduced.