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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @07:11AM (16 children)
It's like Wolf-brand chicken wire. You deserve to lose all your chicken.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @07:37AM (4 children)
Or PaleMoon "No, No-Script for You!" browsers. They are sooooo fucked.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday August 02 2019, @07:54AM
Not every [noscript.net] version of palemoon..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Mer on Friday August 02 2019, @09:48AM
I'll admit the drama between the Noscript devs and the Palemoon devs is idiotic but why do you need Noscript when Palemoon has µmatrix?
Shut up!, he explained.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @01:20PM (1 child)
Weird, I'm using noscript in palemoon right now. I guess your fanny got flustered by a warning message that used leftover default mozilla scary text they didn't change.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @05:24AM
Same here. I'm using Pale Moon 28.6.1 with NoScript 5.1.8.6, on Linux.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 02 2019, @08:04AM (10 children)
Lost in translation. What does it mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 5, Insightful) by rigrig on Friday August 02 2019, @08:20AM (9 children)
You want a fence which protects your chickens from wolves, but you buy the fence from a wolf.
So in this case:
You want a browser which protects your privacy from advertisers, but you use Chrome from Google.
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 02 2019, @08:25AM (8 children)
Thanks. In the cultures I was exposed to, foxes were the ones to keep out from your chickens, wolves being more interested in sheep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @08:43AM (3 children)
I used to own chickens but the fox came.
so I bought sheep thinking the fox is too small, and the wolf came.
so I bought a cow thinking the wolf's too small, and the bear came.
so I bought an elephant.
still no omlette though.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 02 2019, @01:22PM (2 children)
The elephant would attract poachers.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Friday August 02 2019, @03:43PM
But an omelette is made with SCRAMBLED eggs
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @12:17PM
And that's how you make poacher eggs... [/Badum-tss]
(Score: 2) by schad on Friday August 02 2019, @12:17PM (3 children)
No, you're right. In the US it's also foxes-chickens (esp. hens) and wolves-sheep. This is just a mixed metaphor.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Friday August 02 2019, @04:55PM
Ah, not a problem, forget it then. Milk spilled under the bridge and all that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Saturday August 03 2019, @01:43AM
Firefoxes catch chickens.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Saturday August 03 2019, @01:45AM
Firefoxes catch chickens.
Is that a mixed metaphor?
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.