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Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser but they're making a

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change that might not be so popular especially as it's affecting the ad

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blocker that you might be using right now Google says this change is not meant

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to make ad blockers less effective but given that they make Oodles of money

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from ads and getting people to pay to remove them Google's official line might

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be a little hard to believe so let's find out what really seems to be going

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on here and if the ad blocking extensions that you use will still work

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at the part of this controversy is Google's new platform called manifest V3

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a platform that extensions on Chrome as well as on chromium based browsers like

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Edge have to use Google has said that one of its main reasons for moving to V3

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from the existing manifest V2 is to protect user privacy you see extensions

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like ad blockers are commonly able to see everything on the web page you're

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viewing which could obviously include sensitive information if the extension

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is malicious the existing V2 platform

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could allow the extension to easily steal this information manifest V3

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instead allows ad blockers to ask the Chrome browser itself to remove ads

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instead of showing the whole page to the extension not only does this seem better

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for privacy but Google also claims that pages will load more quickly as this

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method has less processing overhead but there's a caveat to these privacy claims

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manifest V3 doesn't actually block extensions from looking at the web page

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you have open it merely allows the user to deny this permission to the ad

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blocker which many users may not bother

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doing how many times have you just clicked allow on something cuz you just

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want it to work so why exactly is Google saying that manifest V3 is safer well it

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seems like the real meat of this claim is that manifest V3 prevents extensions

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from accessing remote code that is code that lives on a server somewhere and is

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not part of the extension that lives on your hard drive but does that actually keep you safe and

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how does it affect ad blockers potentially making them less effective

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simple Google doesn't want a safe looking extension to pass Google's own

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vetting policies only to get installed on your computer and then access

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malicious code from elsewhere that Google cannot vet that Canal your data

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but the wrinkle is that many popular ad blockers rely heavily on remote code

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because advertising platforms are fully aware of the popularity of ad blockers

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and frequently adjust their code to try get around them them the ad blocker's

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remote code also gets updated quite often by their developers sometimes as

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often as several times per day in a kind of digital arms race which you may have

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seen recently as YouTube has tried to stop ad blockers with the ad blockers

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then being updated to get around YouTube's countermeasures but with manifest V3 all the code the ad blocker

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uses has to be contained in the extension itself meaning it's going to

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be harder for ad blocker developers to quickly update the code that allows the

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ad blocker to recognize and remove ads as updates we'll now have to go through

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the Chrome web stores betting process which could potentially take up to 3

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weeks and on top of that ad blockers won't even be able to access as many

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filtering rules for identifying and removing ads so even though Google isn't

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Banning ad blockers this situation does mean it's more likely ad blockers will

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be ineffective against certain types of ads so no wonder there's been a great

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deal of skepticism around Google's claims that this is about user safety

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and privacy and not crippling ad blockers considering Google makes over

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34s of its revenue from advertising and

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because Chrome is currently phasing out manifest V2 in favor of B3 popular ad

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blockers like U block origin are expected to stop working in the near

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future the good news is that Firefox will continue to support manifest V2 and

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there are some ad blockers on the Chrome web store including a u block origin

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light made by the same developer that are designed for amount of S3 but the

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developer of U block origin has already said the light version is a best effort

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and may not fulfill your expectations I

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guess I could say the same thing about Google in terms of allowing you to do

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what the heck you want to do on your browser on our Internet thanks for

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watching and if you'd like to know why so many people even use Chrome in the

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first place go watch this video next