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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

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[–] 325 points 5 months ago* (11 children)

Pretty fucked up considering how much malware and scammy bullshit come though ads.

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  • [–] 195 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Yep, sorry but not sorry. Advertisements aren’t safe. The industry has been ruined by bad actors and it’s a shame, but also not my problem.

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  • [–] 134 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I worked in ads only a few months and learned how fucked that industry was. They're basically given license to just run scripts in your browser, sucking as much info as they can. The fact that it hasn't been regulated to hell is shocking, and truly a failure of all leaders.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Internet Browsers store way too much data and have waaaay too many permissions. It's sickening.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    not enough, what they want is personal data to mine. they cant do that in simple terms. meta, glassdoor, indeed , linkden,(plaid) tries to use convoluted mehtods to get you to give up more personal data than you normally would in order to access the rest of the site.(glassdoor and indeed has an additional reason to want you ridentiy)

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago*

    The whole industry is bad actors. The quaint, pastoral idea of actually advertising things you genuinely might want to know about is utterly beyond dead, it died the moment they realized they could use the same pipeline to harvest data and manipulate and control people. Using it for mere advertising is a waste of everyone's time and resources when they have an option so much more lucrative on the table.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Over 10 years ago someone at my office had their work PC and user drive encrypted with ransomware because of a bad ad injection from one of those job search sites. Thankfully it was limited to nothing critical and incremental backups restore the drive...but hopefully they found a good lead because they were canned.

    If they'd had a good ad blocker this would have been a non issue

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago

    I work in IT: Pretty much all the malware we deal with comes from ads. I've pitched making ad blocking standard but they never go for it, even though it's clear it would prevent an absolute shit ton of attacks. It's crazy!

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