Google: “We mean it this time, guys.”
They’ve retreated from their privacy sandbox ad proposal, but V3 is staying…
Hm…
Fun story, I tried Vivaldi a few weeks ago. It’s based on chrome. And it got really sluggish and I didn’t understand what was going on. It was so much slower than Firefox at rendering pages too!
Went back to Firefox with a new appriciation for how good it is.
The chrome simps got their excuses on deck for continuing to use that bullshit
20352028: Browser content is piped to a local AI that filters junk and noise then feeds the result back into the browser for screen displayK
uninstalla Chrome and continues to avoid malware infested ads with Firefox
Wasn’t able to find an answer to my main question in the article: will this kill uBlock Origin’s ability to block YouTube ads?
It’ll make it a lot more likely that YouTube ads will get through because MV3 limits the block list size to a fraction of the size normally used by uBO and also disallows external/live updates to the block list, instead forcing the rules to be baked into the extension. Meaning an update to the blocking rules could take a week of extension review time to go through. I heard that the YouTube ad blocking rules can update multiple times a day so this would easily allow Google to update their ad code before approving updates to ad blockers, allowing them to always stay ahead.
So it might not outright break it, but some rules will have to be left off so it seems like it’ll be a dice roll if you get an ad where the blocking rule had to be left off to fit Google’s block list limit or the rule you have is stale because it took a couple weeks for the extension update to be approved on the extension store.
On chrome, probably.
On any non-chrome browser, nope.
I think Firefox and Safari are the only ones. (Don’t come at me with that Brave bulllshit)
LibreWolf too, although that is a fork of Firefox.
Ladybird is an up and coming independent web browser. There’s also the Servo browser engine project in the works.
will this kill uBlock Origin’s ability to block YouTube ads?
that’s it’s raison d’etre
uBlock Origin has already been letting some Youtube ads through on my Chromebook in the last few days. (Still been working perfectly on Firefox on my desktop, though.)
It’s getting real close to time to finally bite the bullet and nuke ChromeOS in favor of normal Linux.
How many times can they cry wolf?