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
#2On Mac:
defaults write com.google.Chrome ExtensionManifestV2Availability -integer 2
You can keep V2 until June2025Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#3How's Microsoft Edge affected?
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#4Hopefully this means people return to FireFox, which I'm surprised many developers abandoned.
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#5Despite 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
#6Back to Firefox!
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#7Regarding 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:
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#8I just installed uBlock Origin Lite and didn't see any difference between uBlock Origin on the sites I frequent. One thing I like about uBlock Lite is that it defaults to Basic mode which does not require the permission to read and modify data.
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#9Hopefully this means people return to FireFox, which I'm surprised many developers abandoned.
this was even funnier the first time i read it and understood it as mozilla developers, as a joke on resource allocation.
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#10Hopefully 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.