Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta

Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by dessant on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:46PM (#25367915)

We've all been watching with disbelief as Google evolved the narrative around the declarativeWebRequest API, coming up with new angles and changing the goalposts to wear people down as critics have disproved all of Google's reasons for deprecating the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API, and nothing substantial has changed.

It does not matter what any of you think and say to this company.

What you have to do now is organize.

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Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by 0xy on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:18PM (#25368781)

Google's strategy is to promise they'll look into changes when their feet are next to the fire, and then when everyone forgets they continue the despicable anti-privacy behavior.

The undisclosed X-Client-Data telemetry, the adblocker-busting Manifest V3 and the new APIs that are used almost exclusively for ad network fingerprinting (AudioContext and others).

Chrome is the DoubleClick browser and now that market share is so strong the facade can lift.

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Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by bradgessler on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:59PM (#25369928)

Stop using Chrome. You’ve got Firefox, Safari, Edge, Brave, etc.

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Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by user749264 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:43AM (#25373586)

Microsoft begins Manifest v3 tests in Edge that impacts extensions like content blockers

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/15/microsoft-begins-manifest-...

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Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by zelly on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:54AM (#25370288)

2/4 of those are Chrome

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Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by delroth on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:03AM (#25371459)

And 1/4 (Safari) already only implements declarative request blocking, and has done that for years while being touted as the alternative for privacy conscious folks.

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Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by devwastaken on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:21AM (#25371203)

chromium, with modifications.

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Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by dessant on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:16AM (#25370035)

There's a good chance that none of those browsers will support the blocking webRequest API in 3 years, and that's because of Google's thumb on the scale. Quitting Chrome solves nothing.

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Re:Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta by akie on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:00AM (#25371445)

Break up Google.

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