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Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

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Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#11

Post by staticassertion »

rasz wrote: post #8
yegor wrote: post #4

As a proxy extension developer, this is absolutely maddening. We're forced to choose between auth-less open proxies (bad), or baking in a wacky authentication scheme through a side channel (also bad). MV3 drops in 2.5 months, and will leave tens of millions of proxy extension users unable to use products they paid money for. This is all on top of the many other issues with MV3 that Google is pushing under the guise o…

V3 will improve performance of ads division.

Doubtful. I suspect that Google Adsense ads will continue to be blocked post-V3.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#12

Post by staticassertion »

guilhas wrote: post #10

2 years without a reply, maybe it's a feature. Could they be afraid of a surge in proxy Adblock extensions since they are trying to cripple the local ones?

A proxy extension requires rewriting arbitrary requests on the fly, which is removed from V3 as a general capability.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#13

Post by iLoveOncall »

yegor wrote: post #4

As a proxy extension developer, this is absolutely maddening. We're forced to choose between auth-less open proxies (bad), or baking in a wacky authentication scheme through a side channel (also bad). MV3 drops in 2.5 months, and will leave tens of millions of proxy extension users unable to use products they paid money for. This is all on top of the many other issues with MV3 that Google is pushing under the guise o…

If there is one group of people I will never feel bad for, it's the VPN / proxy vendors.

They've been doing false advertising for years on every channel, making consumers pay for absolutely useless products.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#14

Post by rasz »

staticassertion wrote: post #11
rasz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

V3 will improve performance of ads division.

Doubtful. I suspect that Google Adsense ads will continue to be blocked post-V3.

Blocking is detectable. uB doesnt block, it shims its own version of js.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#15

Post by jerheinze »

superkuh wrote: post #7

I don't want to pile on here but everyone who used Chromium while pretending they weren't supporting google's Chrome monopoly, pretending Chromium was something else, are getting the only outcome that was possible. It was entirely predictable from the start and if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes.

It's not like no one was making warnings about this.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#16

Post by TedDoesntTalk »

staticassertion wrote: post #12
guilhas wrote: post #10

2 years without a reply, maybe it's a feature. Could they be afraid of a surge in proxy Adblock extensions since they are trying to cripple the local ones?

A proxy extension requires rewriting arbitrary requests on the fly, which is removed from V3 as a general capability.

> A proxy extension requires rewriting arbitrary requests on the fly

That is completely incorrect. A proxy extension routes requests through a proxy server. It does not rewrite anything.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#17

Post by TedDoesntTalk »

jerheinze wrote: post #15
superkuh wrote: post #7

I don't want to pile on here but everyone who used Chromium while pretending they weren't supporting google's Chrome monopoly, pretending Chromium was something else, are getting the only outcome that was possible. It was entirely predictable from the start and if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes.

It's not like no one was making warnings about this.

Someone warned years ago that proxy extensions would no longer be feasible on Chromium? I must have missed that message.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#18

Post by _aizw »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #13
yegor wrote: post #4

As a proxy extension developer, this is absolutely maddening. We're forced to choose between auth-less open proxies (bad), or baking in a wacky authentication scheme through a side channel (also bad). MV3 drops in 2.5 months, and will leave tens of millions of proxy extension users unable to use products they paid money for. This is all on top of the many other issues with MV3 that Google is pushing under the guise o…

If there is one group of people I will never feel bad for, it's the VPN / proxy vendors. They've been doing false advertising for years on every channel, making consumers pay for absolutely useless products.

There are many legitimate use cases of VPN's. Also there are many VPN companies that don't do false advertising such as Windscribe, mullvad or iVPN.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#19

Post by staticassertion »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #16
staticassertion wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A proxy extension requires rewriting arbitrary requests on the fly, which is removed from V3 as a general capability.

> A proxy extension requires rewriting arbitrary requests on the fly That is completely incorrect. A proxy extension routes requests through a proxy server. It does not rewrite anything.

OK and presumably it does that by taking a request for an address A and rewriting part of it so that it actually goes to B with some additional headers to indicate how to forward it.

edit: Apparently I've hit my HN rate limit so I can't reply! Thanks Dang.

As for the proxying, obviously something has to rewrite the address that the request is going to. Depending on the type of proxy (ex: HTTP CONNECT) you may also have an x-forwarded-by header set. It sounds like Chrome never allowed you to do this manually, cool TIL.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

#20

Post by staticassertion »

rasz wrote: post #14
staticassertion wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doubtful. I suspect that Google Adsense ads will continue to be blocked post-V3.

Blocking is detectable. uB doesnt block, it shims its own version of js.

I'm not sure what you mean.
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