Will Opera be nixing certain adblockers like Google Chrome will be doing?
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A Former User last edited by
@yanta said in Will Opera be nixing certain adblockers like Google Chrome will be doing?:
@jimunderscorep
Ad blocker developers and filter list authors had demanded 300,000 elements per extension. For users combining multiple lists, 150,000 elements might not be enough.
To me, this blog post looks like an attempt at appeasement and justification.
Yes, that's exactly what I thought.
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A Former User last edited by
More Googleballs
https://gizmodo.com/google-no-of-course-were-not-slowly-killing-ad-block-1835495590
“There’s been a lot of confusion and misconception around both the motivations and implications of this change, including speculation that these changes were designed to prevent or weaken ad blockers,” Google writes in a separate blog detailing the differences between the two APIs. “This is absolutely not the goal. In fact, this change is meant to give developers a way to create safer and more performant ad blockers.” op cit
At least on the surface, this looks like a good thing. But there are a few niggling details that call that into question. Back in January, the Register reported that Adblock Plus and similar plugins relying on basic filtering would still be able to function, while more sophisticated ones like uBlock Origin and uMatrix would be completely borked. The site also noted that well, Google had conveniently paid Adblock Plus to let their own ads pass unblocked in the software. In a statement, Ghostery, another popular adblocker, pointed out the Declarative Net Request API was limited, and that it wouldn’t be possible to “modify or kill potentially dangerous or privacy-invading requests.” op cit
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A Former User last edited by
@daveski17 + @yanta
Well... ubo is malfunctioning on my firefox for several days each month, allowing may ads to pass through. But it never had an issue on my chromium and opera.
If the manifest v3 change will force me to change to a different browser, that will be firefox... or use dns blocking.
But I do not want to. So, that post from google gives me some hope, which may be false hope, but it is still some hope. -
A Former User last edited by
@jimunderscorep
I've never had any issues with uBO and Firefox. I don't have many extensions on Firefox. Maybe you are having some conflict with another extension? -
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A Former User last edited by
@jimunderscorep said in Will Opera be nixing certain adblockers like Google Chrome will be doing?:
I do not have many extensions either, just ubo and downloadhelper.
What is your OS?
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A Former User last edited by
Debian testing x64... for the last 11.5 years.
The issue on firefox's ublock just comes and goes. It has been there before ff quantum, before ff adopted multi process and so on. -
A Former User last edited by
@jimunderscorep
I'm not having any issues on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. There again, it is pretty stable.
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A Former User last edited by
The time has come!
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/10/12/the-end-of-ublock-origin-for-google-chrome/The development version of ubo was rejected from the chrome store.
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A Former User last edited by
We are almost there...
https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dqjugc/google_begins_testing_extension_manifest_v3_in/ -
blackbird71 last edited byThe "moment of truth" will probably start to appear in 2020 as manifest V3 goes "live" in Chrome generic distribution. Then we'll start to see whether/if the ripples spread into non-Chrome chromium (and thereafter potentially impact other chromium-based browsers).
Per https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/google-begins-testing-extension-manifest-v3-in-chrome-canary/ , 1 November 2019: "While they are now in preview, Google expects the manifest v3 to go live in 2020 with the v2 end of life to be determined in the future."
