Jan 24, 2019, 05:47 am
(This post was last modified: Jan 24, 2019, 05:50 am by politux. Edited 3 times in total.)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/...ers/?amp=1
Google needs to change their motto to "Let's Be Evil." They are legitimately as bad as Microsoft at this point. It seems they are intentionally trying to fuck with useful adblockers like uBlock and favor nerfed corporate sellout Adblock Plus that extorts money from sites to whitelist their ads.
I can easily go to Firefox and duckduckgo.....
Quote:Google is planning to change the way extensions integrate with its Chrome browser. The company says that the changes are necessary for and motivated by a desire to crack down on malicious extensions, which undermine users' privacy and security, as part of the company's continued efforts to make extensions safer. The move also means that popular ad blocking extensions such as uBlock Origin and uMatrix will, according to their developer, no longer work.
The plans, called Manifest V3, are described in a public document. Google is proposing a number of changes to the way extensions work. The broad intent is to improve extension security, give users greater control over what extensions do and which sites they interact with, and make extension performance more robust. For example, extensions will no longer be able to load code from remote servers, so the extension that's submitted to the Chrome Web store contains exactly the code that will be run in the browser. This prevents malicious actors from submitting an extension to the store that loads benign code during the submission and approval process but then switches to something malicious once the extension is published. In a bid to discourage extensions from asking for blanket access to every site, Manifest V3 also changes the permissions system, so universal access can no longer be demanded at extension install time.
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Not every ad blocker will necessarily fall afoul of the new restrictions. The syntax for declaring blocked URLs for the new declarativeNetRequest
API is very similar to that already used by AdBlock Plus, for example, so that blocker should be able to adapt to the new API easily enough. But anything with more rules, or more complex rules, is going to be out of luck. In a bug tracking Manifest V3's progress and related discussion thread,authors of, among other things, NoScript and uBlock Origin both say that the new API is not sufficient for their extensions. (emphasis mine.)
Google needs to change their motto to "Let's Be Evil." They are legitimately as bad as Microsoft at this point. It seems they are intentionally trying to fuck with useful adblockers like uBlock and favor nerfed corporate sellout Adblock Plus that extorts money from sites to whitelist their ads.
I can easily go to Firefox and duckduckgo.....
