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Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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Re: Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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Post by dessant »

bambax wrote: post #50

> Simeon Vincent, a Google Developer Advocate for Chrome Extensions One has to love and admire the use of Newspeak by big companies... How is this Mr Vincent an "advocate"? He's in charge of destroying extensions! On his Twitter bio [1] he also says he likes "helping people" and "the open web". The cognitive dissonance must be hard to bear. [1] https://twitter.com/dotproto

And once asked a clear question, the developer advocate deflects and stops answering: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745#iss...

Re: Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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Post by darkwater »

hechang1997 wrote: post #38
moomin wrote: post #15

This is the point in the dominance cycle where the dominant player decides they no longer need to be the fastest or the most secure and that their dominance will allow them to coast along doing their thing. There’s nothing particularly inevitable about what happens next, but let’s hope they get an IE6-sized kick in the teeth.

Many many people use adblockers now. The amount of users they will alienate would be very high.

Nope, mostly tech-savvy people use adblockers, it's astonishing how many people still see ads on a daily basis.

Re: Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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Post by kmlx »

kmlx wrote: post #61

hasn't Apple done the same with Safari? https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/arti... curiously i haven't noticed any changes on my day to day browsing habits.

another point: isn't this what every firefox/others fan wished for? a way to balance things out in the browser market?

Re: Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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Post by mtgx »

bambax wrote: post #50

> Simeon Vincent, a Google Developer Advocate for Chrome Extensions One has to love and admire the use of Newspeak by big companies... How is this Mr Vincent an "advocate"? He's in charge of destroying extensions! On his Twitter bio [1] he also says he likes "helping people" and "the open web". The cognitive dissonance must be hard to bear. [1] https://twitter.com/dotproto

Google has been perfecting this language over the past few years, with press releases/blog posts of fame such as: "We're evolving Google Fiber" (read: We're killing it) or "We're releasing the End-to-End email encryption extension to the community" (read: We're abandoning developing and supporting it for Gmail), etc

Re: Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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Post by goatinaboat »

bambax wrote: post #50

> Simeon Vincent, a Google Developer Advocate for Chrome Extensions One has to love and admire the use of Newspeak by big companies... How is this Mr Vincent an "advocate"? He's in charge of destroying extensions! On his Twitter bio [1] he also says he likes "helping people" and "the open web". The cognitive dissonance must be hard to bear. [1] https://twitter.com/dotproto

“Hello, fellow developers! I myself am a developer, just like you! How’s everyone developing today? By the way ”

It’s so transparent, I boggle at how anyone falls for it, or that companies still think it is a viable strategy.

Re: Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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Post by koolba »

adrianN wrote: post #60
mantap wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pi-hole can't filter out ads that are embedded into the page though. I think adblockers have to be a browser extension to work conprehensively.

Pi-hole can switch from magicking the DNS to being a proxy that rewrites HTML.

TLS makes that tricky as you need a MITM proxy.

Re: Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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Post by viraptor »

adrianN wrote: post #60
mantap wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pi-hole can't filter out ads that are embedded into the page though. I think adblockers have to be a browser extension to work conprehensively.

Pi-hole can switch from magicking the DNS to being a proxy that rewrites HTML.

Then you need to manage custom certificates and embedded browsers and updaters may not handle proxied connections well. (And what about your tv where you can't provide custom CA certs?) This way of handling things never ends well. Both in enterprise solutions and consumer ones.
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