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Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users (www.theregister.com)

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The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture will lead to less effective privacy and content-filtering extensions.

For users of uBlock Origin, which runs on Manifest V2, "options" means using the less capable uBlock Origin Lite, which supports Manifest V3.

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago

Now every public school that uses Chromebooks is going to have children get served ads on taxpayer dollars?

What could go wrong?

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 5 months ago

As if they didn't already?

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

It's a sad state of affairs modern schools have when an instructor tries to pull up a video on YouTube or other sites to use in class, and an entire classroom of children have to sit through the unskippable ads.

I guess I'll take that over the TV documentaries my teachers used to record on VHS that had commercials to fast forward through, but the modern internet truly sucks.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Yup and a significant portion of those ads are definatly not school appropriate... From the mobile game ads that show a mostly naked lady, alcohol, soft-porn (chatbot type stuff), jump scares and whatever other crap google exempts from their "guidelines" for a quick buck.

The only (official) way to have all kid firendly ads is to use YouTube Kids, which also blocks all the usefull educational videos for anyone older than 4.

[-] corvett@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Google's Admin Console has an option to continue enabling Manifest V2 extensions. Most schools would be wise to lock down which extensions they let users install anyway, and the zero trust approach is to just deploy what's needed for access to curriculum.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Gotta get em while they're young, marketing execs drooling over the new wave of consumerist indoctrination!

[-] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

pi-hole

[-] mil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

At school?

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Especially at school.

Ubiquity routers have had blocking in them it's not a stretch to expand that out to other enterprise

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

The three schools I do IT work for ALL run Pi-Hole VMs.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It is a good point: other platforms [other than iOS] have an easy solution (Firefox), but on Chromebooks you're relatively locked in because you have to jump through hoops installing the Linux environment in order to use it.

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