Starting June 2024, adblockers such as uBlock Origin and many other extensions on Chrome will no longer work as intended. Google Chrome will begin disabling extensions based on an older extension platform, called Manifest V2, as it moves to the more limited V3 version.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s literally a work around for Google making YouTube videos pose pause for 5 seconds before playing on Firefox due to adblocker use. It’s to use the adblocker to trick Google into thinking Firefox is chrome.

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      1 year ago

      They are also working on ways to let websites cryptographically authenticate a browser. So if they wanted to badly enough, that workaround wouldn’t work.