Looks like chrome ad block extensions (and many more) gonna have trouble or even completely stop working as of January 2023.

https://theregister.com/2022/06/...

Tldr: google will drop support for its extension platform Manifest v2 (Mv2) and will only support Mv3 which doesn't have webRequest api. It does have an alternative api called declarativeNetRequest but it dowsn't support all of webRequest api features. This will be problem for many content blocking extensions.

Firefox

What... They are forcing the use of a newer API version... but the newer version is worse and unfinished? What am I missing here? That's as if Sid Mayer said in 1998 that you're no longer allowed to play Civ2, you can now only play Civ3 which wont be finished for another 2 years.

Vivaldi and others already announced long ago that they will not participate in Google's attempt to cripple adblockers: https://zdnet.com/article/...

Use a browser without a gaping CoI

Pihole to the rescue!

Almost, now we need pihole to support DOM elements.

@C0D4 yeah this will be nice marketting for pihole.

@C0D4 pihole would just need to make a man in the middle attack, then Analyse all the HTML stuff and clean it up haha

seems like a major capitalist world pattern.
everytime an innovation was made, a counter-innovation was also made . and the only companies/orgs that survived the war b/w innovation and counter-innovation were the ones that focused on improving one without worrying about the advancements in other. but now it seems like the latest pattern is crushing the opposition as a part of winning the competition.

google did not bothered what ad blockers would block, but since the revenues are thinning , they want to foce ads upon us by crippling adblockers and apps like vanced.

similar pattern can be seen with the world's largest democratic country who initially supported multi party system and right to religion/speech/crticise/oppose the government but seems like now they are attacking all those concepts and moving the country towards the medival aged "single religion with extreme castism/racism/sexism" world

@jonas-w @c0d4 how does it filter ssl?

@netikras it doesn't do SSL decryption, it is purely a DNS server with a customisable blacklist.. err... "we don't want you to visit these sites" list.

It does allow DNS over SSL but again it doesn't see beyond the domain name being requested.

@netikras it is just a dns server not a proxy which would be required to do a man in the middle attack

I like how Google thinks they are the boss. Thanks Chrome users.

@jonas-w @c0d4 I figured. Though when Jonas started talking about it parsing HTML I got a bit confused

They can do whatever they want. I have used Firefox for more than a decade.

@C0D4 ++ for the subtle jab at virtue signalers

@WildOrangutan Here's the thing. Google can make chrome be "better" than other browsers by crippling their own sites on anything that doesn't match the desired user-agent.

They've done this in the past with youtube, making it run worse on firefox to put the notion of it being a worse browser inn the mind of users.

Throw a bit of underhanded money, and other big platforms could follow suit. It's the Google way.

@nitnip yeah, but eventually we will force them to realize they have no power here. The client is the sole party that has control over headers, so anything can be spoofed and tricked. This is how you can get chromecast working on firefox too. And this is also why DRM on web makes no sense and why they can't stop YouTube-dl from working...

As long as they keep making bullshit, we will unbullshitify it

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