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AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

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Re: AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

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Unless they port it to v3, yes, it won’t work anymore.

Jeeezuuuss! that will hurt, a lot.

Firefox is not that bad. Honestly the multi-account containers alone merits the switch.

Re: AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

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Unless they port it to v3, yes, it won’t work anymore.

Jeeezuuuss! that will hurt, a lot.

I use firefox so i don't know much about chrome vs chromium politics, but if the chromium people have one thing to do now, it would be to maintain manifest v2 in their fork..

Re: AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

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> By releasing an extension built with Manifest V3 today — first among developers of ad blockers – we can say that we've met the challenge that Google posed to us.

They shouldn't do this IMHO.

Manifest V3 is a horrible attempt to kill adblocking (under the banner of "security", as always). But, the web is completely unusable without adblocking.

If there are no more (effective) adblockers for Chrome, users will frantically begin to search for an alternative; there are many: Firefox and Brave to mention just two.

Giving a boost to alternative browsers can only be a good thing; and it may also, eventually, make Google rethink this policy.

Re: AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

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Unless they port it to v3, yes, it won’t work anymore.

Jeeezuuuss! that will hurt, a lot.

Meh, just use Firefox for general browsing and Chrome/ium for the one or two things that only work on that.
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