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New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans

posted by martyb on Friday August 02 2019, @06:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the when-the-new-shiny-is-not-always-better dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/08/01/warning-issued-over-google-chrome-ad-blocking-plans/#75c4a925219a

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Saturday August 03 2019, @02:56AM (3 children)

    by ElizabethGreene (6748) on Saturday August 03 2019, @02:56AM (#874949)

    I'm (voluntarily) test driving the Edge Beta Chromium-derived browser. It's been my first-choice browser for about two weeks now. So far it looks good. Adblock plus has a dev version for it, but it's only about 80% effective. I'm reporting the misses so they can fix it.

    (Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft and therefore my opinion is invalid.)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @03:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @03:01AM (#874957)

    Even your opinion about your opinion being invalid?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @10:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 03 2019, @10:18AM (#875054)

    Thank you for your efforts. Your opinion is very much valid.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 05 2019, @09:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 05 2019, @09:52AM (#875859)

    Thank you for disclosing.
    I don't think you are evil or dismisaable on the grounds of a mainstream worldwide recognisable mostly upright employer (yes what they do is sometimes bad, but that does not make all their employees bad).

    I am a public servant. Wait. Is that the sound of pitchforks being sharpened? Can anyone smell tar burning?