Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
by blep-arsh on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:11AM
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Incidentally these new declarative rulesets are useless against some very simple tricks. I know people who are working full time on defeating ad blockers and the new Manifest v3 seems to have made their lives so much easier.
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Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
by blibble on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:07AM
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this change is intended to move control over the blocking process from the extension author to Google
once they're in total control of how the blockers can operate: I doubt they'll be responsive to what the developers of the blocking extensions want...