An explanation of Manifest V3, why it matters, and what uBlock Origin is doing about it.
  • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1181·
    7 months ago

    So, in short:

    • Google is not killing ad blockers, but merely chopping off both legs and arms in the name of security.
    • ublock Origin is implementing a lite version for chromium browsers, supposedly being pretty decent given the circumstances.
    • Old Manifest V2 extensions will be disabled in June 2024 and Manifest V2 will be removed in June 2025.
    • Firefox is Firefox.
    • Privacy and security focused chromium based browsers will have to implement proper native ad blocking.
  • Kumabear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1072·
    7 months ago

    I am now using Firefox…

    I mean I was using Firefox before this, but I also am now as well you know.

        • Cralex@lemm.eeEnglish
          121·
          7 months ago

          I was using Firefox back when it was cool. And now it’ll be cool again.

            • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              7 months ago

              I briefly lived in the dark side of IE6 because AOL fucked over the Netscape browser so badly. But then I came back like the prodigal son when Firefox (then Firebird) came along.

              • legios@aussie.zoneEnglish
                3·
                7 months ago

                Yeah I remember IE5 and NS4, as well as the Firebird/Phoenix/Firefox naming joys back in the day.

                If you want to blow your brains out, try getting XHTML 1.1 working in IE6. It is indeed possible if you modify the XHTML DTD. Interestingly it’d render shit so much better since it’d use MSXML instead of Trident as the rendering engine. Sadly it would add about 400k to the page since it needed to load a custom DTD…

  • holdthecheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    7 months ago

    Interesting that article comes to the conclusion that uBlockOrigin Lite is basically as effective as the original and works on the new Manifest v3.

    • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      7 months ago

      I’m glad you read the article, since it seems like nobody else in the comment section has!

  • pirat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    7 months ago

    When I went to read the comments of this post, and for some reason it took 10 sec for them to show up in my client, I thought of Google…

  • Hoptrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    7 months ago

    I am forever grateful for my father having Firefox installed on the xp hand-me-down that became my first computer