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Firefox’s new ad tries to remind you of a time before the internet sucked. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

I am going to do my best to explain the technical side in simple terms.

Chromium browsers use something called manifest V3.

V3 is a google designed “upgrade” to manifest V2 and it blocks certain advanced features provided by comprehensive adblocker like Ubo.

Wether an adblock is native or an extension does nothing to circumvent the native limitations of V3 that exists on all chromium browsers. If you have proof such hack exists that would actually be a technews worthy event.

The only (mainstream) browser that still supports V2 is firefox. Which is therefor the only browser that allows all the features of the full ublock origin. Firefox has no inbuild adblocker to compare to a chromium one.

I can believe that the features that work on V3 encompass your personal needs and that of many other people. But they are literaly not the same.

Some examples of features included in comprehensive v2 adblockers that are limited on v3 are:

(Not a full list)

  • per site dynamic filtering
  • per site disabling of javascript
  • more detailed logger
  • filters relying on runtime logic
  • more comprehensive element picker

I (and the Ubo developers) would be happy to see any proof that shows otherwise.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    Wether an adblock is native or an extension does nothing to circumvent the native limitations of V3 that exists on all chromium browsers

    As I've already stated several times, that's simply not true. MV3 literally only applies to extensions. But thanks for dumbing it down for me.

    I can believe that the features that work on V3 encompass your personal needs

    This has nothing to do with my "personal needs", this is a technical discussion.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Apparently you're right that MV3 only restricts extensions, not native blockers. I stand corrected on that part.

    However, uBO on MV2 still has features that no known native ad blocker on a Chromium-based browser offers.

    The closest match I could find is Brave Shields, but it still lags behind on per-site control, mainly because it has no dynamic filtering matrix, and it has no logger comparable to uBO's. That most of the list i already mentioned multiple times.

    To date, nothing matches or beats Firefox + uBO, so the original point still stands. The burden of proof that shows the contrary is on you for that.

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