Google has shared an updated timeline about Manifest V3, the latest version of its Chrome extension specification that has faced criticism for putting limits on ad blockers.
After putting the update on pause last year, Google announced on Thursday it will continue the transition to Manifest V3 with some key changes.
Google previously proposed putting restrictions on the functionality of this API for security reasons, potentially impacting the effectiveness of ad-blockers across all Chromium-based browsers, including Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox.
In a post published earlier this month, Meshkov says the changes should allow ad blockers to “offer nearly the same quality of filtering that they demonstrated with Manifest V2.” However, Alexei Miagkov, the senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, tells The Verge Manifest V3 still puts unnecessary limitations on developers.
Despite this small olive branch Google appears to be extending to ad-blockers, the company hasn’t been so friendly to those types of extensions as of late.
YouTube launched a global crackdown on ad-blockers last month that prevents some users from watching videos with the extensions turned on.
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That’s just a made up fact by the TL;TR bot. In the linked source it just says "Chromium-based browsers including Chrome and Microsoft Edge. " Nothing about Firefox.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google has shared an updated timeline about Manifest V3, the latest version of its Chrome extension specification that has faced criticism for putting limits on ad blockers.
After putting the update on pause last year, Google announced on Thursday it will continue the transition to Manifest V3 with some key changes.
Google previously proposed putting restrictions on the functionality of this API for security reasons, potentially impacting the effectiveness of ad-blockers across all Chromium-based browsers, including Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox.
In a post published earlier this month, Meshkov says the changes should allow ad blockers to “offer nearly the same quality of filtering that they demonstrated with Manifest V2.” However, Alexei Miagkov, the senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, tells The Verge Manifest V3 still puts unnecessary limitations on developers.
Despite this small olive branch Google appears to be extending to ad-blockers, the company hasn’t been so friendly to those types of extensions as of late.
YouTube launched a global crackdown on ad-blockers last month that prevents some users from watching videos with the extensions turned on.
The original article contains 322 words, the summary contains 180 words. Saved 44%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Firefox isn’t a chromium based browser
That’s just a made up fact by the TL;TR bot. In the linked source it just says "Chromium-based browsers including Chrome and Microsoft Edge. " Nothing about Firefox.
They changed it in the article after it was originally posted: https://web.archive.org/web/20231116232800/https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964509/google-manifest-v3-rollout-ad-blockers
They have a note about it at the bottom: