Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by duringmath on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:48PM (#38495974)

> Manifest V3 will stop this by limiting what Google describes "remotely hosted code." All updates, even to benign things like a filtering list, will need to happen through full extension updates through the Chrome Web Store. They will all be subject to Chrome Web Store reviews process, and that comes with a significant time delay.

So the author can't think of any other reason for this change other than to "slow down ad blocker updates"

Well how about stuff like this: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Where an extension dev details offers to "monetize" his extension and basically perform a bait and switch and make it malicious.

Pretending that V3 is all about ad blockers is more than a little disingenuous.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:10AM (#38496086)

MV3 does not stop those monetization offers. I don’t understand why you think they would stop.

Source: I have two open-source extensions with almost 1,000,000 active daily users combined, and the MV3 versions still elicit offers for me to sell them

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by duringmath on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:21AM (#38496146)

It might not stop the offers coming but it might stop you from taking up one or more of them.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by NBPEL on Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:53AM (#38496803)

How ?

If you are offered 2 meals, it's YOUR choice to take 1 or 2, it's all about yourself.

MV3 won't even prevent this one bit.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by duringmath on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:08AM (#38496890)

Malicious extensions are less likely to make it passed the review process.

That in turn should deter bad actors from monkeying with their extensions but more importantly it makes it less likely that malicious extensions make their way to users browsers.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday December 02, 2023 @05:56PM (#38503041)

The review process is the same for MV2 and MV3 extensions.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by duringmath on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:27PM (#38504538)

For now.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by sourcefrog on Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:17AM (#38496404)

Yes, there seem to be really valid security concerns about the current extension interface. Perhaps Google is making the wrong tradeoffs here. I don't know, it's very complicated, but the article is not really engaging with those tradeoffs.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by kelnos on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:53AM (#38497146)

Except that it doesn't seem MV3 actually solves any of those security problems.

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