Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • @kautau@lemmy.world
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    This is a shit take. Manifest v3 is like activex. As of right now, it shuts down extensions they don’t want. Going forward, it sets up a system for extensions that are publisher-approved. When internet explorer took over the market I could still use Netscape until I couldn’t. I’m hoping Firefox doesn’t reach the same end

    • @dan@upvote.au
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      Manifest v3 is like activex. As of right now, it shuts down extensions they don’t want.

      ActiveX was the opposite of this… It gave third party code way too much access. It was essentially unsandboxed native code running directly in the browser, like if you were to write a Windows app and let a site automatically download and run it.