tldr: Chrome Canary is the beta (lol) channel for Chrome. Google has been working on a trans(lol)ition toManifest v3 for a while, effectivly killing off many ad blockers or knee capping them severaly (like in IOS and Safari on MacOS). Well they flag to keep v2 (uBlock) enable has been taken away because papa Google knows best.
The removal of a custom settings flag previously used to enable deprecated Manifest V2 extensions (like most popular ad blockers) has begun turning out the lights on the user-friendly Chrome party
When the option to enable v2 gets removed from the normie channel is anyone's guess butt the c*m is on the wall at this point. uBlock has a lite version which isn't as good. I can tell you from exp using Safari on desktop that that kind of adblocker just sucks all around.
Also FurryFox is doing something similar so lmao
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I would argue that if you want to be free from advertising, perhaps using a web browser created and distributed by the world's biggest advertising company Is not the wisest strategy.
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someone want to explain to me why v3 kills ad-blockers specifically?
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They worked around it to an extent but these were the original concerns (2019):
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050173
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looks like i might just not care tbh. i'm not a power blocker. if a website needs me to element block i usually just frick off from the website instead.
also i can't imagine element picker gone forever, are they just nerfing all dom access?
on the flip side, i have no idea why google gave a shit about the few power users that utilize advanced feature. i can't imagine they make for a good advertising audience anyways. it's basically akin to the piracy fallacy- just cause someone pirated ur shit doesn't mean they were ever gunna be a viable customer.
this really just sounds like middle-management shenanigans, lol. god i hate middle managers.
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