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Re:Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsof... by anoncareer0212 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:25AM (#24784921)
It's disheartening to see this misinformation expressed so strongly - Chromium's privacy mandate led them to implement Safari's version of ad blocking - the status quo of allowing extensions to see _all your web traffic_ was a _massive_ platform risk for privacy.
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Re:Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsof... by dessant on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:23AM (#24785464)
Only the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API are deprecated, observing traffic remains intact in Manifest V3.

Extensions will continue to enjoy access to your data, while ad blockers will have a harder time to react to the countermeasures introduced by ad networks.

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Re:Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsof... by inshadows on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:24PM (#24794201)
Right, because it's only about conflict between browser vendors and 3rd party extension vendors. Somehow the user, a dumb machine browsing web, is only meant to be protected my browser vendor. There's no way for relantionship between user and extension vendor anymore.

You make me sick.

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