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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 117 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So, in short:

  • Google is not killing ad blockers, but merely chopping off both legs and arms in the name of security.
  • ublock Origin is implementing a lite version for chromium browsers, supposedly being pretty decent given the circumstances.
  • Old Manifest V2 extensions will be disabled in June 2024 and Manifest V2 will be removed in June 2025.
  • Firefox is Firefox.
  • Privacy and security focused chromium based browsers will have to implement proper native ad blocking.