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Will manifest 3 really kill modern ad blockers? Like adguard and ublock won’t work as they do now in some upcoming Blink/Chromium version?

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That is correct. The creator of uBlock Origin, gorhill, made a post about it [0], and uBlock Origin actually works better in Firefox than in other browsers apparently [1].

[0] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Your information is outdated. gorhill also released a version of uBlock Origin that runs just fine on Manifest v3.

Just fine based on the limitations that were given, ie Manifest V3, but it is still better on Firefox.

It'll work as it does now on large websites, but smaller ones will probably not make the cut (due to filter list size limit).

Anyway, there's already a manifest 3 version, swap uBlock Origin for uBlock Origin Lite and experience the changes yourself.

Firefox promised multiple times that they're gonna deviate from manifest v3 on that front, so only uBlock Origin (proper) will only work there.

They will work but not as well.

Correct: they will work about as well as DNS-based adblockers. The "cosmetic blocks" you depend on in uBlock Origin to block same-origin and in-page elements, the things that make Fandom wikis usable, will not work.

I had to check what you meant and turned of uBlock on a Fandom wiki. Ye, well, those popup ads are really distracting. Even pop-up video ads. Following your scrolling around.

It's good to remind oneself about how the internet looks like to most people ...

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