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Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#5
Despite all the links in the article, I didn't see one to the official announcement which contains useful information: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...

"Based on input from the extension community, we also increased the number of rulesets for declarativeNetRequest, allowing extensions to bundle up to 330,000 static rules and dynamically add a further 30,000."

Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#7
Regarding links in the article, it’s definitely lacking (as mentioned links like this: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...) but also why don’t articles like this offer a consistent set of alternate browsers like Firefox, Safari & all the Chromium derivatives (Brave, DuckDuckGo & Arc) that include ad blockers? I get that there’s a difference between those & the free choice to pick your ad blocker; but eventually everyone grows tired of the cat n mouse game. Why not help promote switching?

Almost all of these, for example, have desktop variants:

https://developer.apple.com/support/browser-choice-screen/

Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

#10
post #4

Hopefully this means people return to FireFox, which I'm surprised many developers abandoned.

Unfortunately I seriously doubt it, given how many advocate for Google's efforts to make Web into ChromeOS, buy Chromebooks, and ship desktop applications wrapped in Electron.
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