No. Manifest v3's main role was to cripple ad blockers... hence you're now seeing YouTube experiment with "anti-ad-blocker" popups warning users they wouldn't able to see the site.
They know they got people by the balls after they rolled out v3 earlier this year.
Manifest V3 was always a massive advertiser land grab. Their intent is to kill effective ad blockers and replace them with ad blockers on the payroll ("acceptable" ads) or nothing at all.
Gorhill told the Chrome team that this would effectively kill ad blocking. He was ignored (are you surprised?).
As far as I know, the popular ad blockers aren't reducing their permissions. They are retaining the ability, for example, to inject JS for things like "right click to block".
Manifest V3 is solely about reducing harm to Google's ad business. Full stop. Their stated reasons are very disingenuous. They knew full well how this would play out.
So, manifest v3 is out there, and does allow some form of adblocking. are there any adblockers actually implemented with it, so i can see for myself what the adblocking performance is like?
Is there a good (more objective? less emotional?) breakdown of the issues with, and I assume also the benefits of, Manifest V3?
So far all I've heard is that it'll destroy ad-blocking, except that it sounds to me like the ad-blocking abilities it has are fairly close to Apple's content blocking abilities, and while ad-blocking on iOS isn't perfect, it's still a thriving ecosystem.
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.
How many people use adblockers? Is there any chance manifest v3 will lead to enough users abandoning Googles Chrome to build a community around an open alternative, like we did when we abandoned IE for Firefox all those years ago?
If Manifest v3 is really this bad then it's probably still possible to build adblockers by DLL hooking the browser. It should also not affect browsers with built-in adblocking like Brave and Vivaldi.
Manifest v3 didn't kill ah blockers. It just got rid of the webRequestBlocking API and replaced it with declarativeNetRequest. This mean you don't have to give ad blockers permission to see all of the requests you are making. Ad blockers can still dynamically create rules for what requests they want to block.
> Manifest V3 is a horrible attempt to kill adblocking
I really don't understand the push of MV3.
I don't believe they're just for security as Google claimed but at the same time I feel thinking it's "just" to ruin ad blocking is equally baffling. Could someone who is more involved elaborate the nuance of (intent of) MV3?
I’ll stick to FF for lack of manifest 3 alone. Adblocking is superior of ff as a result…and that affects my experience more than a microsecond diff either way
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