The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Firefox is my daily, but the fact I have to fire up a chromium browser to use web serial or midi is an endless annoyance. Mozilla won’t add that functionality as they see it as a security risk.

      • Scrath@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        Honestly, in my opinion it kind of is (though I’m not an expert on it). Except for convenience I don’t think a browser should be allowed to access my USB devices. Though I would welcome it if it was enabled with the same kind of request that pops up when a browser wants to access the microphone or camera.

        • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          11 months ago

          That is, quite literally, how it works in Chromium. Mozilla still sees it as a security risk, even with user permissions. Honestly, having to boot Chromium is a bigger security risk.

  • Leonard Kelley@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    You have a choice A. Be a Chad who Dumps Chrome and chromium based browsers . or B. remain a whiny loser who has to deal with ads.

  • Engywuck@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    AdGuard (system wide), PiHole, inbuilt adblockers are still there and won’t be affected by this. Who cares.

    • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      Adguard and pihole rely on DNS redirects - googs has already implemented “secure DNS” for Chrome in Android, which circumvents network level/local DNS by connecting to a Google owned DNS, serving content using those listings instead.

      They’ll likely bring this to all flavors of Chrome.

      Yes, one should use Firefox. Yes that could also avoid the android problem, but also no, because Google forces chrome at weird times (eg, some apps will load a minimal web viewer for hyperlinks links, without leaving the app - sometimes apps don’t respect the default browser setting and instead just use chrome.

      🤷

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Google’s sales pitch for Manifest V3 is that, by limiting extensions, the browser can be lighter on resources, and Google can protect your privacy from extension developers.

    Emphases mine. Funny, I use extensions to protect my privacy from Google.

    Chromium needs to be fully divested from Google. End of story. There’s too much conflict of interest in letting the world’s largest advertising company have this much control over one of the two major browsers. If you don’t see the problem with that, imagine if Taco Bell was also the world’s largest producer of anti-diarrhea medicine.

      • anlumo@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        As a web developer, Safari needs to either die in a fire or be transferred to a company that actually cares. It’s more than half a decade behind everybody else.