Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by bogomipz on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:40AM
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Interesting, so the WebRequest API has its origins at Mozilla? I remember discovering all those wonderful plugins at the time via Firefox but I didn't understand that was the enabler.
Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by Ygg2 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:36AM
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Ah, the extinguish phase, of EEE.
Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by pessimizer on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:21AM
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Firefox did them a favor by trashing the extension ecosystem that had put the pressure on Google in the first place.
Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by Ygg2 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:22AM
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Firefox did it because of security/performance concerns. Being able to customize UI doesn't lend itself to easy refactoring.
In order to compete with Chrome most of XUL extensions had to go.
Hyrum's law in practice.
Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by encryptluks2 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:21AM
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> Firefox did it because of security/performance concerns
Isn't that the same concerns used in pushing Mv3?
Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
by Ygg2 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @04:55PM
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XUL was a legacy system and it was blocking many optimization/refactors.
Does Mv2 really hold Chrome back?
> Chromium got its webRequest API at a time it was trying to gain market share against Firefox (Sep 2011), where Adblock Plus, Ghostery, Disconnect, NoScript, and other such extensions were the most or among the most popular extensions on Firefox.
So the only reason they even implemented this browser standard was to gain market share and now that they are in the dominant position they yank it, getting rid of ad blockers. Straight out of the Microsoft playbook.