sovietknuckles

joined 5 years ago
[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes but this was my one big chance to be silly

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Oh, so you two are on a first-name basis now?

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Brave plans to continue supporting Manifest V2 after Google kills it. For Ungoogled Chromium, however, it's still undecided, likely depending on whether UG contributors are willing to maintain it.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Currently, uBlock Origin and other ad blockers rely on features enabled by the webRequestBlocking permission, which lets them block any request that is only useful for ads or tracking. Manifest V3 hides webRequestBlocking abilities except from extensions that are force-installed, or installed through policy for an organization.

That said, Chrome removing Manifest V2 will not kill uBlock Origin on Chrome. uBlock Origin's Manifest V3 support page says as much:

Rest assured, uBlock will continue to function on the Manifest V3 platform!

In practice, though, that means Chrome users who don't switch to Firefox will probably need to make do with uBlock Lite (which, for example, cannot yet circumvent YouTube's new anti-adblocker popup). Meanwhile, Manifest V2 will join the list of reasons that uBlock Origin works best on Firefox. A comparison of uBlock Lite vs uBlock Origin

Anyway, that's the challenge (and gorhill's workaround so far). You can follow gorhill's progress at https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net -2 points 2 years ago

Not necessarily. Sure it doesn't perform as well as a high-end crypto miner, but it performs better than a lot of desktop PCs that use way more power than it.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But desktop builds won't use less electricity. I use a desktop replacement gaming laptop at home, without taking it anywhere, because it consumes less power

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

You could not live with your own OS. Where did that bring you?

tux-shining Back to me

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For more tech-savvy users, sure. But I thought you were looking for a way for less technical users to share scrubbed URLs. You're not going to get the less technical users out there who share URLs to add a URL tracking filter list to uBlock Origin, but getting them to install ClearURLs is within the realm of possibility.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, some high-tracking sites do break, and I'll need to turn it off temporarily. If ClearUrls breaks a site, it means that the site baked tracking into the functional features of the site itself (which, besides being terrifying, violates GDPR).

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