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The title seems to be wrong, uBlock Origin supported it for many years at this point (only on Firefox). This seems to be a refactor of that code, not a whole new feature.
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Yes. Ads and analytics providers have started doing this to get around third-party cookie protections.
I always find this development curious. About a decade ago I worked in this space. When someone brought up ad blockers I just said "put the analytics on our main domain. No one is going to block the entire website". The answer I got was "no one would ever do that because of the implications of serving advertising from your main domain". Yet, here we are.
I'm not surprised there are people who prioritize the latter, especially for small sites where they may not have someone who fully understands the risks.
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I run all the time with first-party cookies disabled. Most of the web works. Anything that does not, and I care about, gets blessed. The only content I allow by default, even in low-security browser profiles, and even from first-party domains, are HTML, CSS, and images. I consider the occasional broken page to be a successful test of my configuration. If I care, I adjust permissions.
What do you use to enforce this? Is it something that's going to break with Manifest V3?
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There must have been some Monty Python... ah you get it.
I believe that is a reference to Mitch Hedberg R.I.P. [1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHA5CIL0fg [video][10 seconds]
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And this is a good reason to block all JavaScript in unlock advanced and slowly whitelist the scripts you see until the site works properly. Slow and error prone but once you get used to it it's a breeze. And you're completely immune to this sort of shittery.
Is there a public list of known legit, whitelisted scripts?
What is the uBI status on Brave, Edge and Opera?
I don't care about the two proprietary browsers you've mentioned, but Brave is going to (partially) support manifest v2 and maintain uBO compatibility for as long as they're able to: https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/ Not that you really need it as Brave has its own very capable built-in ad blocker with -- last time I checked -- higher performance than uBO (since it's compiled into native code) and ful…
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Brave will keep Manifest V2 compatibility as long as they can, specifically focusing on "AdGuard AdBlocker, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix". https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
I guess I'm curious what "as long as they can" actually means. If it means they can't pull upstream Blink without losing v2 support, that's bad. I think Firefox is the only viable solution to continue using UBO at this point.
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Maybe it’s a telling sign of the new wave of HN users, but I’m genuinely surprised to read that you don’t know what uBlock is..
I'm happy youngsters still use this ol' forum
uBlock Origin is what makes Firefox even greater and definitely one big reason I use Firefox over Chrome etc. It make the Internet browsable.