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  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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      28 days ago

      It’s still DNS level only, right? That wouldn’t stop YouTube ads, or remove annoyances.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      28 days ago

      You can block ads from being served to you.

      But the flip side is that the website developer can make a website that won’t function if it can’t load the ads being served.

      And most users are gonna want a functional website.

      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        Somebody’s going to need to write a web site with a very, very compelling function to make me give enough of a shit to not just click away if it is deliberately coded to not work with Firefox/adblockers. Like, gives me a million dollars per page load functionality.

        • HarriPotero@lemmy.world
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          28 days ago

          The day they do their own DoH in-browser it is definitely up to them. It’s already opt-in if you want to see how well your pi-hole won’t work with it enabled.

          Next step is to do DoH by default, and finally making it compulsory.

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            28 days ago

            They can do it all they want but it won’t work…

            If I “opt in” it falls back to non doh immediately because using doh on my network is not up to Chrome.

            use-application-dns.net + nxdomain for any known doh provider

            I don’t use pihole but doh blocking works great on my network. It should work on a pihole tho it’s pretty basic stuff.

            If you can’t resolve the domain you can’t validate the TLS certificate.