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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Reminder to switch browsers if you haven't already!

  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (23 children)

There are effectively only two web browsers: Chrome and Firefox. Literally everything else, aside from some really niche things that can't render modern webpages, is a fork of one of those two that uses the same rendering engine.

[–] QuestionMark@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

What about Apple's WebKit? Does it count?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Nope, it doesn't count. The only reason Safari/WebKit isn’t considered a fork of Chrome/Blink is that Chrome/Blink is a fork of Safari/WebKit instead.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 months ago

I'm sure they've diverged enough for it to be pretty significant compared to the Chromium browsers

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