Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

  • unhappy.termite@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Afaik, UBO lite only updates filter lists when the extension updates, has no element zapper/picker, no per site switches, and no dynamic filtering.

    If you can live without these drawbacks, then good for you. But there’s no need to get frustrated about our claims just because we need better ad-blocking and privacy functions than you.

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      1 month ago

      Then build them. There is nothing about MV3 that stops you from improving things. I don’t blame you from wanting good ad blocking, as do I. But I also don’t want every MV2 extension being able to read my network traffic.

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        1 month ago

        There is nothing about MV3 that stops you from improving things.

        … Yes there is? That’s the point? MV3 doesn’t allow dynamic list filtering, that’s why those features don’t exist on UBO

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          1 month ago

          Dynamic list filtering doesn’t mean what you think it means. You can add and update block lists without having to update the extension.