It’ll make it a lot more likely that YouTube ads will get through because MV3 limits the block list size to a fraction of the size normally used by uBO and also disallows external/live updates to the block list, instead forcing the rules to be baked into the extension. Meaning an update to the blocking rules could take a week of extension review time to go through. I heard that the YouTube ad blocking rules can update multiple times a day so this would easily allow Google to update their ad code before approving updates to ad blockers, allowing them to always stay ahead.
So it might not outright break it, but some rules will have to be left off so it seems like it’ll be a dice roll if you get an ad where the blocking rule had to be left off to fit Google’s block list limit or the rule you have is stale because it took a couple weeks for the extension update to be approved on the extension store.
uBlock Origin has already been letting some Youtube ads through on my Chromebook in the last few days. (Still been working perfectly on Firefox on my desktop, though.)
It’s getting real close to time to finally bite the bullet and nuke ChromeOS in favor of normal Linux.
Wasn’t able to find an answer to my main question in the article: will this kill uBlock Origin’s ability to block YouTube ads?
Wether it is or not, the sheer fact that they’re pulling those moves made me move away from Chrome.
that’s it’s raison d’etre
On chrome, probably.
On any non-chrome browser, nope.
I think Firefox and Safari are the only ones. (Don’t come at me with that Brave bulllshit)
Ladybird is an up and coming independent web browser. There’s also the Servo browser engine project in the works.
LibreWolf too, although that is a fork of Firefox.
It’ll make it a lot more likely that YouTube ads will get through because MV3 limits the block list size to a fraction of the size normally used by uBO and also disallows external/live updates to the block list, instead forcing the rules to be baked into the extension. Meaning an update to the blocking rules could take a week of extension review time to go through. I heard that the YouTube ad blocking rules can update multiple times a day so this would easily allow Google to update their ad code before approving updates to ad blockers, allowing them to always stay ahead.
So it might not outright break it, but some rules will have to be left off so it seems like it’ll be a dice roll if you get an ad where the blocking rule had to be left off to fit Google’s block list limit or the rule you have is stale because it took a couple weeks for the extension update to be approved on the extension store.
uBlock Origin has already been letting some Youtube ads through on my Chromebook in the last few days. (Still been working perfectly on Firefox on my desktop, though.)
It’s getting real close to time to finally bite the bullet and nuke ChromeOS in favor of normal Linux.