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Manifest V3 Updates (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 6 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] cyrus@sopuli.xyz 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Manifest V3 changes capabilities and meta-data about extensions, including limiting lots of things that worsen the experience for AdBlock Users.

Google's "cookie replacement" is Ad Topics, which collects your browser history and puts it into categories, sending those categories to websites.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

including limiting lots of things that worsen the experience for AdBlock Users

That is the Chrome implementation; Firefox doesn't and won't impose those limits.

[–] cyrus@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As per the MV3 Specification, it is supposed to remove some APIs.

Firefox included them anyways cuz they're not assholes.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 6 months ago

I think there's multiple specifications at this point. There's Chrome describing what they're doing unilaterally, and then there's the WebExtension working group that's trying to get alignment among several browsers.