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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39 points

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

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34 points

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

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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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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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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LadyBird is very promising.

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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.

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Plenty of Firefox forks out there.

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-2 points

Netscape Navigator and Opera raise their hand

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Librewolf is just a reskinned Firefox.

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