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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)

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Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 6 months ago

You can block ads from being served to you.

But the flip side is that the website developer can make a website that won't function if it can't load the ads being served.

And most users are gonna want a functional website.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Somebody's going to need to write a web site with a very, very compelling function to make me give enough of a shit to not just click away if it is deliberately coded to not work with Firefox/adblockers. Like, gives me a million dollars per page load functionality.

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