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A comment on Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown.

Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by bornfreddy on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:24PM (#33072397)
> Google’s Manifest V3 — Chrome’s new extension-building platform — severely limits the functionality of ad blockers. Though, ad blockers won't capitulate without a fight — that is as much as we can promise you. In a world’s first, AdGuard has recently published an ad-blocking extension built on Manifest 3.

That's... awful? Building an ad blocker on top of Mv3 is exactly what Google is hoping for. If nobody built an ad blocker for it, how much market share do you think Chrome would keep?

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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by smoldesu on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:31PM (#33072476)
That's funny, I remember people saying the same thing when Safari limited support for browser extensions: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by yladiz on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:29PM (#33072458)
Not as many people care about, or even really know of, ad blockers as you might think.
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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by jdmdmdmdmd on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:36PM (#33072564)
>how much market share do you think Chrome would keep?

The entire share of users who don't use AdBlock. The other users don't give them revenue anyway.

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