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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by warkdarrior on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:14PM (#47616408)
> This would be in the same vein as Google Chrome replacing ManifestV2 with ManifestV3, ostensibly for performance- and security-related purposes, when it just so happens that ManifestV3 limits the ability to block ads in Chrome… the major source of revenue for Google.

uBlock Origin Lite (compatible w/ ManifestV3) works quite well for me, I do not see any ads wherever I browse.

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by Valodim on Friday April 03, 2026 @02:30AM (#47623791)
The mv3 problem was never about "does it work now". It was about "can it keep up". Ad blocking is a cat and mouse game, and the mouse is kneecapped now. You're being slow boiled.
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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by dlenski on Sunday April 05, 2026 @03:49PM (#47653162)
Well said. I'm glad that as blockers have managed to develop effective approaches under Mv3, but it took a tremendous amount of engineering effort that was only necessary because Google was trying to impose these very large costs on them.
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