The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024::The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

    • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.eeEnglish
      28·
      8 months ago

      How long until Google starts paying sites to require chrome? The already tried rolling that concept out a few months ago. They only stopped because of the backlash that was publicly associated with it. They already pay major phone manufacturers to have google as their default or only search option.

      So who’s going to stop them when we start finding that major popular sites suddenly don’t work on firefox?

      • AWittyUsername@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        They won’t pay them it will be smarter than that. Possibly with proprietary APIs that only work on chrome etc. some sites already don’t work on Firefox.

        They’ll also further enshitifiy their own services on non chrome browsers.

          • yoshisaur@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            I had no idea… didn’t that end up being canceled at some point or am I mistaken?

            • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              13·
              8 months ago

              As it is customary, companies drop bomb shells to gauge their user base reaction. They pull back if the reaction is too strong and slowly reintroduce it piece by piece when the things have cooled down a bit.

              The moment they announced their intention to DRM the web meant that they will try to push however they can.

            • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
              4·
              8 months ago

              With something like that, it’s usually just rebranded and pushed out after backlash calms down.

      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        Then we’ll develop add-ons that make the sites pretend Firefox is Chrome. It may not be perfect for a while, but it’ll still block ads.

      • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        Sounds like they will create a non-corporate version of the internet by accident. Sound good to me, but I feel like it won’t fly in EU to well.