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Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin
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Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin
webiterate.dev/google-removed-extensions-ublock-origin-108/Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
Big win for Firefox.
Replying to @THX1138@lemmy.ml
Not really. UBlock Origin Lite works really well. They even added content scripts recently. From a technical perspective MV3 offers more security by default.
Replying to @timewarp@lemmy.world
The following filter options can’t be translated into DNR rules:
strict1p, strict3p: whether a network request is same-origin as its initiator Entity-based values for domain= filter option (webextensions #394) redirect-rule=: the DNR API does not support redirect-if-blocked concept (webextensions #493) Click-to-load embedded contexts through redirect=click2load.html filter option Regex-based removeparam= modifier filter options Exceptions for all modifier filter options are not possible Workarounds exist for removeparam= and csp= by carefully tuning the priority property. Many very useful regex-based filters used in uBO are not allowed, or are rejected by the DNR API (webextensions #344) replace=, can't modify the response body (full support is only possible with Firefox MV2) ipaddress=, can't use IP address as a condition to block/unblock (full support is only possible with Firefox MV2) urlskip=, this requires programmatic steps to extract a URL from another URL (partial support, for strict-blocked pages only)
aside from that it is somewhat better than default ublock but that’s a pretty big list of issues.
Replying to @communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
Some of those limitations were never supported in Chrome to begin with. MV3 still supports webRequestBlocking at the engine level but it is gated behind enterprise policy (ExtensionInstallForcelist in the Windows Registry, macOS MDM, or Linux managed policy JSON). If an extension with webRequestBlocking is installed via policy, it restores programmatic interception.