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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In their eyes they just made 30 million more customers.

Fucking parasites.

They made Firefox a good number of new customers.

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

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

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

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.

A CEO is a needed possition, I know in the past the Brendan Eich was controversial in his political views, but Laura Chambers seems ok so far

A CEO is a needed possition

Ha! Good one…

oh wait. You’re serious…

How is a ceo needed? They do no work. Their entire job is to rake in cash from workers.

All a ceo needs is a guillotine.

At least Brendan Eich was a developer, good on him for being Christian.

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.

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

LadyBird is very promising.

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.

Plenty of Firefox forks out there.

Netscape Navigator and Opera raise their hand

Librewolf is just a reskinned Firefox.

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

Looks promising. Lets see where it goes. https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

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

Feel free to offer hosting something else for them. Be the change you want to see.

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

That’s supoosed to be the preview release date on Linux and MacOS…

If they can stay funded I believe them

using a novel engine based on web standards.

Now, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…

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.

A list of Mozilla’s “other bullshit”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products

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.

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.

I agree. That could work. We‘ll see.

Firefox isn’t exactly “the good guys” either

You expect good guys?

I agree but isn’t the choice between “the terrible guys” and “the okayish guys”?

If you don’t know the good guys, then yes that’s your choice

So who are the good guys, mind you telling? As far as I’m aware, currently it’s a choice between Chromium based browsers and Firefox and its forks. So really just 2 options in the grand scheme of things.

Tell me you’re poor without telling me you’re poor

I prefer flawed but trying guys to guys with zero morals that farm every ounce of data they can.

Firefox has telemetry too

And it can be turned off.

Between two evils, Firefox is the comparative good guy. There’s not a chance in hell I’m using anything based on Chromium, I’ve been using FF for close to two decades now and I’ve experienced very few dealbreaker issues.

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