Category: Dealing with Things

Today, ad blockers and privacy apps can ship filter list updates themselves, often using giant open-source community lists. Manifest V3 will stop this by limiting what Google describes “remotely hosted code.” All updates, even to benign things like a filtering list, will need to happen through full extension updates through the Chrome Web Store. They will all be subject to Chrome Web Store reviews process, and that comes with a significant time delay.

Ron Amado for Ars Technica

How is this not monopolistic abuse by the owner of both the largest video platform and the most widely used internet browser on the planet?

I’m a weirdo Safari user (There’s dozens of us!). I’d encourage folks to use Safari or Firefox. Not Chrome or Edge. Just as importantly, install a good ad blocker. AdGuard, Ublock, Ghostly, etc. Both on your desktop and your mobile devices. It will save you from predatory ads that track you across the internet, malicious code in poorly moderated ad networks, a terrible user experience of junk thrown in your face, and better battery life.

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