Exactly as they intended. They can claim all they want that this is for security and that they're "supportive" of adblockers, but if you read the meeting minutes it's clear that they're just phoning it in in terms of the API surface needed to properly support adblocking against a hostile web.<p><a href="https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/56dc974e5d583d69899e29d2471c89da5d18122c/_minutes/2024-03-18-san-diego-meetup.md?plain=1#L331-L341">https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/56dc974e5d583d6989...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/01ac3748984f31885c92b9424f40f6904beb7fec/_minutes/2024-02-29-wecg.md?plain=1#L157-L162">https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/01ac3748984f31885c...</a>
Using their browser business to artificially force the market to be more kind to their advertising business?<p>Google's monopoly can't get broken up soon enough.
I was thinking, uBlock is getting "isolated" to Firefox, since sooner or later all chromium based browsers will face challenges with removal of manifest v3 code.<p>However, one thing that could be done is integrate uBlock into a chromium based browser.
The removal of manifest v3 would still be painful, but uBlock would survive and we get a browser with exceptional ad blocking capabilities builtin
At this point, why do extension/plugin authors bother to comply with ManifestV3 anyway? Just inject into chrome.exe and tinker with those network ABIs directly. Just like the good ol' days.
<a href="https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle">https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle</a><p>A good read. It's fun exploring and tinkering with all the softwares out there.
> When that happens, uBlock Origin fans will need to find a different ad blocker… or a different web browser.<p>Sheep will still continue using Chrome despite their interests being stomped upon.
With the track record of Google, I'd love to see people so annoyed by ads starting a movement to switch to other browsers, essentially rendering Google shooting themselves in their foot with this move, starting Google's downfall in terms of browser dominance (and many others).
I haven’t followed this but it sounds like the internet is about to become unbearable from chrome.<p>Does this affect firefox? If so, what alternatives are there? (I know of brave but heard it’s not so good). Perhaps safari? But it feels quite different to chrome and Firefox and will take some getting used to.
The obvious solution is to build a complete browser compiled in WASM and release it as a Chrome extension.<p>This new in-browser-browser can then have a good support for stuff like uBlock Origine or whatever else one pleases.<p>This way you still use chrome while making chrome irrelevant.
Anyone got a deep dive link (or willing to deep dive in a comment here) on how the best adblockers actually work?<p>I'm assuming it's not simply a DNS blacklist, correct? There must be more to it than simply blocking known domains.
Microsoft's decision to bundle IE with Windows was considered a monopoly. Similarly, Google's move to kill off Chrome's extensions for ad revenue is comparable to Microsoft's actions.