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Google's campaign against ad blockers across its services just got more aggressive. According to a report by PC World, the company has made some alterations to its extension support on Google Chrome.

Google Chrome recently changed its extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the new Manifest V3 framework. The browser policy changes will impact one of the most popular adblockers (arguably), uBlock Origin.

The transition to the Manifest V3 framework means extensions like uBlock Origin can't use remotely hosted code. According to Google, it "presents security risks by allowing unreviewed code to be executed in extensions." The new policy changes will only allow an extension to execute JavaScript as part of its package.

Over 30 million Google Chrome users use uBlock Origin, but the tool will be automatically disabled soon via an update. Google will let users enable the feature via the settings for a limited period before it's completely scrapped. From this point, users will be forced to switch to another browser or choose another ad blocker.

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 161 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In their eyes they just made 30 million more customers.

Fucking parasites.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 102 points 4 months ago (26 children)

They made Firefox a good number of new customers.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 67 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I‘m really anxious for firefox as google is the main financier afaik.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It is a worry. I think we might end up needing to pay for Firefox ourselves.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 34 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I will happily donate.
If, of course, money won't go to the CEO.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it is lol, have you seen how much the ceo is paying herself?

its kind of a reddit situaton, where money wouldnt be that much of an issue if it werent all for the ceo.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure firefox will be on our side after the recent ad tracking debacle. If they implement one more anti consumer feature I‘m jumping ship.

[–] przmk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Jump ship to what? Not like there's s lot of choices out there. You could always try LibreWolf.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 4 points 4 months ago

That would be my first address, assuming the librewolf folks will never accept anti community code, hopefully.

If everything fails i‘m fine to join a small project and help with it. I have some skills and can contribute financially.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Plenty of Firefox forks out there.

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[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

look up ladybird. we may soon have a 3rd browser!

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

It’s hard to take a project seriously for championing our privacy if the only communication options are Discord & Microsoft Github

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

I am hopeful they will get some more corporate backing. We can donate all day but that is a drop in the bucket compared to a few million from some large companies

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

using a novel engine based on web standards.

Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That's supoosed to be the preview release date on Linux and MacOS...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

If they can stay funded I believe them

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

2026 isn't soon.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, only like 2% of Mozilla spending goes towards FF (I may be misinterpreting something, but I remember 2% being thrown around), so funding FF without rest of Mozilla bullshit shouldn't be that hard. Of course, since Mozilla did spend so little on FF, it's a question how much they actually care about FF and what would happen if they lost access to their golden goose. They shouldn't have problem funding FF, but they probably have other bullshit they don't want to let go and that has more priority for them.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mikina@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago

You are right, it was unfairly harsh wording, I apologize for that. Most of those products are super cool and important, I've kind of extrapolated it from what I've read in other posts about them spending too much on stuff like events and other, non-developemnt, related stuff that I actually never checked, while also not realizing that they also have a ton of other projects, which mixed with the dissapointment with the recent development about the Meta partnership led to me choosing that wording unfairly.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For now. They could default to yahoo and make money. Maybe not as much, but they could sustain browser development.

Firefox is still far superior to chromium.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 4 months ago

I agree. That could work. We‘ll see.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago
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