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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers(www.engadget.com)

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From the article: “In some ways, the current situation has spurred an arms race. YouTube has inadvertently improved ad blockers, as the new knowledge and techniques gained from innovating within the YouTube platform are also applicable to other ad and tracking systems.”

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Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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No, their plan is to rollout manifest v3 and most people will accept it.

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DuckGuy@mander.xyz
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I wonder when Manifest v3 will finally drop since there’s no ETA anymore.

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Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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They’re going to rebrand it and secretly release it under some new PR name.

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snaggen@programming.dev
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Except if all developers, who are also power users of the internet, switches to another browser which allow ad blockers, all web based apps and websites will shift to work better in Firefox then on Chrome. Then the regular user will also switch.

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skip0110@lemm.ee
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Yup. I’m a web dev. Switched from testing first in Chome to testing first in Firefox a few months ago. And I had been Chrome first for probably 10 years prior. Some of our customers (enterprises) also started deploying/spec for FF by default in the past year.

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