autotldr@lemmings.world
on 17 Nov 2023 02:45
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google has shared an updated timeline about Manifest V3, the latest version of its Chrome extension specification that has faced criticism for putting limits on ad blockers.
After putting the update on pause last year, Google announced on Thursday it will continue the transition to Manifest V3 with some key changes.
Google previously proposed putting restrictions on the functionality of this API for security reasons, potentially impacting the effectiveness of ad-blockers across all Chromium-based browsers, including Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox.
In a post published earlier this month, Meshkov says the changes should allow ad blockers to “offer nearly the same quality of filtering that they demonstrated with Manifest V2.” However, Alexei Miagkov, the senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, tells The Verge Manifest V3 still puts unnecessary limitations on developers.
Despite this small olive branch Google appears to be extending to ad-blockers, the company hasn’t been so friendly to those types of extensions as of late.
YouTube launched a global crackdown on ad-blockers last month that prevents some users from watching videos with the extensions turned on.
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lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world
on 17 Nov 2023 07:08
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That’s just a made up fact by the TL;TR bot. In the linked source it just says "Chromium-based browsers including Chrome and Microsoft Edge. " Nothing about Firefox.
Spotlight7573@lemmy.world
on 17 Nov 2023 13:36
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Correction November 16th, 9:41PM ET: Firefox is based on Gecko, not Chromium. We regret the error.
comador@lemmy.world
on 17 Nov 2023 05:34
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It’s like people hate ads so much they’re willing to change browsers… gasp
Google had a revelation.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
on 17 Nov 2023 11:06
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I wouldn’t even go that far. People are not taking a pair of scissors to every printed newspaper and even vandalism of outdoor ads is minimal, so it’s not that people hate ads in general, they mostly hate intrusive and distracting ads which is only made worse when tracking makes it feel more like stalking than advertisement. TLDR: people don’t hate ads, they hate Google Ads.
SheeEttin@lemmy.world
on 17 Nov 2023 16:19
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I don’t even hate Google ads. It’s all the other flashy deceptive animated video bullshit.
Yeah gm is definitely paying for people to paint over their own ads. And your ad getting painted over totally means you dint have to pay. As we all know the uglier our city is the more people want to walk through it
Google previously proposed putting restrictions on the functionality of this API for security reasons, potentially impacting the effectiveness of ad-blockers across all Chromium-based browsers including Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Think antitrust may have had something to do with their change of heart?
The laughability of preventing content filtering for security reasons should have been so obvious that not even Google could argue that one with a straight face.
linearchaos@lemmy.world
on 20 Nov 2023 06:24
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Just because they make a changing chromium doesn’t mean that everyone that has forked chromium needs to take that change.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google has shared an updated timeline about Manifest V3, the latest version of its Chrome extension specification that has faced criticism for putting limits on ad blockers.
After putting the update on pause last year, Google announced on Thursday it will continue the transition to Manifest V3 with some key changes.
Google previously proposed putting restrictions on the functionality of this API for security reasons, potentially impacting the effectiveness of ad-blockers across all Chromium-based browsers, including Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox.
In a post published earlier this month, Meshkov says the changes should allow ad blockers to “offer nearly the same quality of filtering that they demonstrated with Manifest V2.” However, Alexei Miagkov, the senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, tells The Verge Manifest V3 still puts unnecessary limitations on developers.
Despite this small olive branch Google appears to be extending to ad-blockers, the company hasn’t been so friendly to those types of extensions as of late.
YouTube launched a global crackdown on ad-blockers last month that prevents some users from watching videos with the extensions turned on.
The original article contains 322 words, the summary contains 180 words. Saved 44%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Firefox isn’t a chromium based browser
That’s just a made up fact by the TL;TR bot. In the linked source it just says "Chromium-based browsers including Chrome and Microsoft Edge. " Nothing about Firefox.
They changed it in the article after it was originally posted: web.archive.org/…/google-manifest-v3-rollout-ad-b…
They have a note about it at the bottom:
It’s like people hate ads so much they’re willing to change browsers… gasp
Google had a revelation.
I wouldn’t even go that far. People are not taking a pair of scissors to every printed newspaper and even vandalism of outdoor ads is minimal, so it’s not that people hate ads in general, they mostly hate intrusive and distracting ads which is only made worse when tracking makes it feel more like stalking than advertisement. TLDR: people don’t hate ads, they hate Google Ads.
I don’t even hate Google ads. It’s all the other flashy deceptive animated video bullshit.
There’s a guy in my neighborhood that goes around throwing paint on all the bus stop ads. It’s pretty great I hope he never gets caught.
Reducing the economic viability of public services is really sticking it to the man. /S
What car company does he work for?
Yeah gm is definitely paying for people to paint over their own ads. And your ad getting painted over totally means you dint have to pay. As we all know the uglier our city is the more people want to walk through it
Think antitrust may have had something to do with their change of heart?
The laughability of preventing content filtering for security reasons should have been so obvious that not even Google could argue that one with a straight face.
Just because they make a changing chromium doesn’t mean that everyone that has forked chromium needs to take that change.