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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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