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So its up to each of us to choose : either follow the leaders, be tracked, be used… or adopt the new enlightened generation which strives for a free Web, but free in terms of your privacy before Google IS NOT prohibiting ad blockers, it welcomes them with open arms. There’s a new generation of users who understand what the Web is nowadays and provide talented developers to find alternatives to practically all Web services which are managed with one main policy : market share, whatever it takes to achieve that. I’ll stick to my belief, shared by many users, that GAFAM companies are the worst which ever happened to the Web, with a nevertheless lesser anger concerning Microsoft : they started it all, it’s only after that the company failed to be respected.

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Microsoft and its unethical behavior to push users to upgrade to Windows 10 : remember? Of course may be mentioned some Google practices and above all Google brainwashing which manages to hold such strong market shares. Is Google Chrome a monopoly? If you search for ‘Google Chrome monopoly’ you’ll find many, many answers, one of which states that Google, the company, looks more like an oligopoly (whilst Google, the search engine, inherently a simple monopoly) : īut, after all, no one forces anyone to use Google and its various “services”. I’m running Firefox, I’m running uBlock Origin for Firefox, I don’t have to face Google’s Manifest V3. Now You: are you affected by Manifest V3?Īm I affected by Manifest V3? Definitely not, given I do not use any Chromium browser even if, to quote the article, “Some Chromium-based browsers may modify the default behavior to support Manifest V2 extensions, but most won’t, probably. Most Chrome users may want to switch to another browser when Manifest V3 becomes the standard to get a reliable protection and not a chaotic one. Especially the competing part is troublesome, as extensions may stop working if rules limits are reached. Compared to Manifest V2 content blockers, Manifest V3 extensions can be less powerful due to the artificial rules limits of Manifest V3. For users, it can mean that the installed content blocker does nothing at all.ĪdGuard's new browser extension for Chrome demonstrates that content blockers are possible under Manifest V3. In fact, the developers note that even the basic filter lists, which is the primary list of AdGuard, may be disabled in the worst case, as it has more than 30,000 rules. The developers have added warnings to the extension that inform users when the rules limitation is forcing the extension to reduce the number of rules that it supports. When the limit is exceeded, only the first 5000 rules will be applied by the content blocker, while all other rules have no effect.ĪdGuard MV3 Browser takes that into account. These compete with each other then when it comes to the limits.ĭynamic rules have an even stricter limit of 5000, which includes a limit of 1000 regular expression rules. Now imagine that other extensions are installed that rely on rules. It is easy to reach the 330,000 rules limit with just one extension. Users may add their own custom rules to many content blockers or subscribe to more rules listings. The default configuration of uBlock Origin uses 80435 network filters and 45243 cosmetic filters that is already more than four times the minimum guaranteed rules limit. The number may sound like much, but when you realize that modern content blockers rely on tens of thousands of even hundred thousands of rules, the limitation becomes apparent right away. Any one extension has guaranteed access to 30,000 rules. One of the main issues of Manifest V3 is that it imposes a fixed limit of 330,000 rules for all extensions installed in Chrome. While they managed to produce a working content blocker based on Manifest V3, they concede that it has certain limitations that Manifest V2 content blockers did not have. The developers note that the new APIs of Manifest V3 caused a lot of headache during development. Work on the extension started in mid-2021.

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