I've got a better way. Don't use chrome.
I've got a better way.
Don't use chrome.
Dude should have just made an adblocker and told google to fuck themselves rather than reporting it. Or at least notify a group like uBlock Origin Lite.
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>If you know anything about browsers, you've probably heard that Google Chrome is phasing out MV2 in favor of MV3. You've probably also heard that this hurts adblockers. A quick explainer: "MV" stands for "manifest version." MV3 introduces a new type of runtime for Chrome extensions that, among other things, gets rid of webRequestBlocking, a permission that allows extensions to block requests dynamically based on their content (which its replacement does not support). Adblockers heavily rely on webRequestBlocking to function properly. Pretty convenient (cough cough) for a company that makes most of its revenue from ads to be removing that. Anyway, with the phasing-out of MV2 pretty much done, now seems like a good time to talk about a bug in Chrome that I found and reported to Google in 2023. The bug let webRequestBlocking (and yes, adblockers) work in MV3. I still consider it probably the funniest bug I've ever found.
Dude should have just made an adblocker and told google to fuck themselves rather than reporting it.
Or at least notify a group like uBlock Origin Lite.
Archive: https://archive.today/4iITQ
From the post:
>>If you know anything about browsers, you've probably heard that Google Chrome is phasing out MV2 in favor of MV3. You've probably also heard that this hurts adblockers.
A quick explainer: "MV" stands for "manifest version." MV3 introduces a new type of runtime for Chrome extensions that, among other things, gets rid of webRequestBlocking, a permission that allows extensions to block requests dynamically based on their content (which its replacement does not support). Adblockers heavily rely on webRequestBlocking to function properly. Pretty convenient (cough cough) for a company that makes most of its revenue from ads to be removing that.
Anyway, with the phasing-out of MV2 pretty much done, now seems like a good time to talk about a bug in Chrome that I found and reported to Google in 2023. The bug let webRequestBlocking (and yes, adblockers) work in MV3.
I still consider it probably the funniest bug I've ever found.
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