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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024::The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Such as?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

I was doing some work on the social security site and the site i needed wouldn't even load unless it was chrome or edge. There are sadly too many important website that are somehow allowed to gatekeep browsers. I feel like if their site follows guidelines then there's no reason they should be restricted from browsers, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Platforms I use don't work reliably with other browsers, online teaching ones to be specific.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Ah, that's a tough one.

I needed to install Ungoogled Chromium to join lectures, because the remote learning site refused to work in Firefox (wouldn't be surprised if it was developed against a chrome-specific API)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much every internal Web application I've used in banking, insurance and Govt orgs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Most of the time the site doesn't really need chrome, it's just that's all they test it with, so they say it's a requirement.

There's an addon for Firefox called User-Agent Switcher and Manager that allows you to have Firefox identify itself to websites as chrome (among others), and it often fixes the problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I work in IT so I am aware of this. Maybe you've not worked in enough places that just build incompatible (cr)apps?

And sure, just go outside our locked down machine policies and install Firefox and unapproved extensions. That will do down well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, "most" was probably a bit hyperbolic, especially for internal websites, and I guess it's no surprise that the sectors you mentioned would be particularly bad for it.

The best place for my little PSA probably wasn't in response to your post in particular.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry I'm snippy as I have personal stuff going on. You are right in so far as if you have full control of your machine which isn't the case for the orgs I mentioned.

We can pull FF into our dev environment so I've seen these annoying behaviours.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

All good; I didn't think about your comment thoroughly enough before replying, and you had a very valid point! ^^