Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by KronisLV on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:09AM
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User agent spoofing seems like what should be done on the user's end in those cases, if it's not possible to avoid using such sites for whatever reason.
Problems would begin once we'll eventually get Chrome-specific functionality or something that Mozilla won't implement due to a variety of concerns, thus simply breaking sites: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
Then we'll basically be back in the days of IE, except that this time Google will be the ones with the browser monopoly, if we're not already there somewhat - the majority of folks haven't even heard of Firefox.
Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by wccrawford on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:31AM
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Didn't Google say it was going to make Chrome have the same generic user agent forever in the future? Seems like using that one will be the way to go once that happens.
Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by kurupt213 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:33AM
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My experience is it’s more often proprietary web fronts for corporate microservices than WWW pages
If Firefox won’t work, edge almost always will. I’m really trying not to download chrome again. I forgot chromium is an option. Is that not maintained by Google?
Looking at you Google search results [1] (but I understand their motivation), however I do have one local company site that refuses to move beyond their loading splash in Firefox.
I guess I should be thankful it's no where near as bad as the IE6 days where HTML standards were completely disrespected in the quest for more market share.
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...