1268
Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
527 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 138 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I worked in ads only a few months and learned how fucked that industry was. They're basically given license to just run scripts in your browser, sucking as much info as they can. The fact that it hasn't been regulated to hell is shocking, and truly a failure of all leaders.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
    •
  • [–] 76 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    They’re basically given license to just run scripts in your browser

    That's the crazy thing.

    You want to show me an image, maybe an animated gif, and link it to your website where you're selling shit? Fine. Annoying, but fine.

    But I don't care how many crocodile tears they shed about 'but websites depend on ad income' -- I am not letting random, unvetted advertisers run arbitrary code on my computer. I don't care if it's in a sandbox inside a sandbox. Exploits may be found, sandboxes may be escaped. And there's plenty of trouble they can get into even within their little sandbox, like running a fucking crypto miner or something.

    So, yeah. Adblock and noscript everywhere and always.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, they can host a GIF on their server & show it to me with a non-personalized link, & promote it where they believe the average reader might be interested in it. Or some reader(s).

    Just show me the ads you’re showing everybody else, and make money from sales of useful things & services.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Internet Browsers store way too much data and have waaaay too many permissions. It's sickening.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    not enough, what they want is personal data to mine. they cant do that in simple terms. meta, glassdoor, indeed , linkden,(plaid) tries to use convoluted mehtods to get you to give up more personal data than you normally would in order to access the rest of the site.(glassdoor and indeed has an additional reason to want you ridentiy)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent