@J12t locking down the extension ecosystem is a good...

@J12t locking down the extension ecosystem is a good idea 🤷. Manifest 3 puts Chrome in line with what Apple pioneered with Safari extensions a few years back.

Like 24 February at 23:49 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Johannes Ernst

@ChrisLTD and it just happens to imply ad blockers are a necessary casualty for that?

25 February at 2:53 | Open on social.coop

ChrisLTD

@J12t you’ll still have ad blockers in Chrome just like you have in Safari. All this means is that ad blockers for Chrome have to use this new architecture where they can’t intercept (and potentially record) all your web traffic in real time.

25 February at 14:04 | Open on mastodon.social

Johannes Ernst

@ChrisLTD this is not what the Ars Technica article says.

26 February at 1:41 | Open on social.coop

ChrisLTD

@J12t it’s spelled out in the Manifest v3 API docs https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/blocking-web-requests

26 February at 19:40 | Open on mastodon.social

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