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Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by hparadiz on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @07:30PM (#33014534)
Not sure why you decided to bring up Apple. People decide to buy into the Apple ecosystem.

I didn't decide to buy into the Chrome ecosystem. I just have to use it because of the marketshare. And I'm on Gentoo running a personal build of Chromium.

Manifest v3 is pure evil. Don't get it twisted. There's no ambiguity here. It's just a cash grab.

Anyone working on it on the Chrome team should feel shame.

Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by kovac on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @08:35PM (#33014966)
I'm a firefox user and have no love for Google, but I disagree with this. No one is forcing you to use Chrome. This is also a good test for Mozilla/Brave to show if they truly stand by the principles they profess to defend. If Chrome did everything right we would not have needed Firefox/Brave for the reasons they currently exist. And if they follow suit, I hope the community will take a long hard look at the state of the browsers and try to fork Firefox or build something new.
Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by pfortuny on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:36AM (#33017568)
I invite you to come to probably half of secondary schools in Spain, to verify.
Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by LtWorf on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:07AM (#33017381)
> No one is forcing you to use Chrome.

The several websites not working with firefox are.

Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by staticassertion on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @07:39PM (#33014599)
I think it's pretty absurd that this is the level of discourse on this subject. "pure evil" and "just a cash grab" aren't substantive criticisms, nothing in your post is actually informational.

The reality is that ad blockers will continue to work to a significant extent that they do today. Engage with that, put some information with merit into your posts.

Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by zarzavat on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @07:50PM (#33014656)
It makes the adblockers fight with one hand behind their back, tilting the balance in the cat and mouse game towards the attackers.

Google is an empire built on advertising: scams and malware, so their evil has always been present. But right now we have an easy way to protect ourselves. Manifest v3 is exposing that evil to technologically-minded people.

I will have to switch my parents over to Firefox or Brave to keep them safe online.

Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by staticassertion on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:13PM (#33015599)
Again, the entire post is just axiomatic moral judgments with no information.
Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by zarzavat on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:01AM (#33017712)
I’m curious what parts of the internet you visit that you do not see all the ads for scams, shock ads, and other malicious things. There’s a reason that “one weird trick, doctors hate it!” is a meme. It’s utterly rampant. If I open YouTube without an adblocker there’s often some kind of snake oil salesman that pops up. Or a cult.

Now, I use private browsing, so I get the “default” experience. Perhaps you don’t use private browsing and so your targeting is really honed in. Perhaps you only see sensible ads for sensible people, a sensible wallet or a sensible car. If that is the case then fine, but if the only way to use the internet is logged in to Google and with everything tracked, then that is unacceptable to me.

Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by kmlx on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:18AM (#33020197)
years of no ads on Safari. are we inventing problems now?
Re:Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023 by ajvs on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:31AM (#33017529)
> The reality is that ad blockers will continue to work to a significant extent that they do today.

Completely false. Compare the difference between uBlock Origin on Firefox MV2 vs uBlock Origin Lite MV3 on Chrome and there's a massive loss of functionality.