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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)

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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024::The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Chromium isn't as bad as Chrome, Google actively tries to get you to use Chrome by blocking some features in Chromium (like account syncing).

[–] wazzupdog@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

That's like equating evil and evil, both are still Google, both are gonna have mv2 removed (eventually) making web filtering a nightmare. I have all kinds of add-ons that prohibit any scripts from running on a website without my explicit authorization. Mv3 will break that level of security. Chromium=chrome both owned and maintained by Google.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You are aware that Chromium is an open source project and isn't owned by anyone, right? Google created the engine/framework and are the biggest contributors to it, but that's akin to saying "Red Hat (or Linus himself) owns Linux".

Google has full control over Chrome which is closed source and has their specific tweaks, they don't have full control over Chromium. I could fork the Chromium repo and there is nothing that Google can do to add in any of their tracking because I have a full copy of the source code and can modify it as I see fit.

Chromium is not Chrome. Just like Edge isn't Chrome.

[–] wazzupdog@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Forking chromium and stripping out all the google tracking is near impossible(for smaller dev teams). I am aware there are valiant attempts at de-googleing chromium but every one of them that i tried was either still phoning home, or ran like shit, or were so behind on security updates that it was dangerous to use them.