alt Hacker NewsThis is just because Google was especially insidious about how they crippled ad blockers in v3.
Adblockers do multiple things:
1. Visibly block ads from the user
2. Block the user tracking that's attached to those ads
3. Protect the user from malware
4. Save bandwidth and cpu cycles by not loading all that junk
5. Allow control to users over how a webpage is displayed to them
Arguably uBlock Origin Lite can only accomplish some of #1 and a sprinkle of #2 now. And even those abilities are compromised by artificially low limits imposed by chrome in v3 that will eventually allow ad networks to overwhelm those limits and get ads through to users.
Google is 100% boiling the frog here and you/the average user is left in the pot unaware.
Replies
uBlock lite can accomplish 2, 3, 4 completely. It's only #1 and #5 that are truly affected by v3. But those two were already pretty limited in chrominum browsers compared to firefox.
I don't think any of that is accurate though.
Manifest v3 blocks user tracking -- if the request is blocked, any tracking attached to it is blocked. I'm sure it's not 100% perfect, but it's certainly working well enough in practice.
And what malware are you talking about? If a request is blocked, it's blocked. It doesn't matter if it's an ad or malware.
Manifest v3 is better at #4, because the junk isn't loaded, and the blocking is more efficient in terms of CPU.
And then #5 I don't know what you're talking about. I use Stylus and Tampermonkey to customize webpages and they continue to work great.
So I just don't see the evidence that "Google is 100% boiling the frog here". That's what everyone was saying, but now that Manifest v3 has come out, I just see adblocking that continues to work and uses less CPU to do it.
I see a lot of fearmongering around Google, but now that the results are in with Manifest v3... they just don't seem true. You're making all these claims, but I just don't see the evidence now that we're seeing how it works in practice.