

Can you blame them for being concerned? Here's an interesting article by the EFF, that talks more about the technical details of Manifest V3.įortunately, there are alternatives that you may want to consider switching to. When support for V2 ends, it will effectively break the functionality of adblockers, including uBlock Origin for Chrome. Many users are worried about it, and are hoping the extension will somehow work in the browser after the dreaded change is forced upon developers. But the search giant is already messing with ad blocking. Google will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions in 2023, to force developers to shift to Manifest V3 sans the webRequest blocking API. The issue was patched in a later version of Opera. It was generally agreed by the tech community that YouTube was changing the way ads were delivered, as a counter-active measure to prevent ad blockers from throttling ads. After reading user reports, I observed the same pattern when I tested the browser. A few months ago, Opera browser's default ad blocker had the same problem. The update is not yet live on the Chrome webstore, Opera Addons store and Microsoft Store, but is already available on Firefox's AMO. Pop-up filtering now supports a new scriptlet, window-close-if. The update for the extension also includes a couple of other improvements for the My Filters Editor's auto-complete functionality, scriplets, defusers, and the issue reporter. With the change, uBlock Origin will reload active tabs when Chrome is launched, while ignoring the tabs that were inactive/suspended.
