Google's plans to limit ad blockers in Chrome have already led many users to consider switching browsers. People's anger was made worse by the confirmation that the only people who will avoid the changes to the way ad blockers work in Chrome will be Google's enterprise users. Advertising is at the heart of Google's business model and so unsurprisingly, users have been questioning the software giant's motives.
And now, another prominent voice has entered the debate. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the move will not help security and in fact, will probably hinder it.
The plans, dubbed Manifest V3, represent a major transformation to Chrome extensions including a revamp of the permissions system. As a result, modern ad blockers such as uBlock Origin—which uses Chrome's webRequest API to block ads before they're downloaded–won't work. This is because Manifest V3 sees Google halt the webRequest API's ability to block a particular request before it's loaded. The plans are earmarked for release into the Google Canary channel around now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @03:26PM (5 children)
Pale Moon with eMatrix, UBlock is great on desktop, no problemo. What is nasty is Android, which I use all the time, has open source Chromium based Kiwi Browser with extension suppott, uMatrix and uBlock work perfectly, and the advertising assholes will fuck it up. Fitefox on Android is worse and Mozilla assholes might wanna kiss Big G's ass and implement v3 to get their money. What then?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @03:38PM
Use firefox for developper on android. It is significantly better than regular Firefox 🦊
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @01:23AM (1 child)
Blokada for android:
https://blokada.org/#download [blokada.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @03:20AM
May want to avoid that RAT: https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/0e4fede38fcaad584c4fae9c33e73318f367111c0d48cc33ad75cdbd86d83ade/5d44f912038838a14753cef1 [hybrid-analysis.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @05:30AM (1 child)
On Android I only use Privacy Browser, available from F-Droid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 05 2019, @09:45AM
What's wrong with IceCat on Android?
I run it with uMatrix, uBlock origin, privacy badger, canvas blocker etc. Runs most Firefox plugins.