Has anyone been using the v3 compatible version of uBlock Origin? Have you noticed much of a difference? From what I read there isn't supposed to be much of a difference?
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There's no difference whatsoever.
And it's not surprising because on my iOS device I've been using similarly architected content blockers since 2015. There's no issue with declarative ad blocking.
Of course this differs with the kind of sites you visit. So you need to try it on your own. I can believe that perhaps for some people this is a downgrade, but don't automatically assume uBlock Origin Lite won't work well for you.
iOS I'll give you, but macOS can in fact run ex. Firefox.
> finally matching the security and the privacy in that regard.
"Matching" inferior security+privacy is not a good thing. The only way this is an improvement if you think the blockers are malicious; otherwise a useful tool in the users interest has been made less powerful.
Extensions and in turn MV2 blockers can easily be malicious.
https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/dangerous-chrome-extensions-8...
Look at how many in Kaspersky’s list are advertised as ad blockers. The majority of users aren’t tech savvy like HN.
By my count 5, 6 if we include "Autoskip for Youtube", out of 34. That might be an argument for dropping extensions, but I don't think it's an argument for breaking ad blockers.
Those extensions used the same API that ad blockers used, but for malicious purposes.
So, you would support removing that API? Well, that’s what they did for MV3 and implemented an API just for ad blocking.
Sounds like an obvious chance to flag the extension for further review, and probably a warning on the user side.
> So, you would support removing that API?
Of course not; that's throwing out the baby with the bath water. This brings us back to the "further review" thing; there's plenty of precedent for a platform having API surface that only a smaller subset of apps/extensions are allowed to use, because the features it exposes are legitimately needed for some things but it could be abused so it gets flagged and you have to write a detailed explanation for why your thing really needs this permission and then the reviewers can look at it particularly closely.
> Well, that’s what they did for MV3 and implemented an API just for ad blocking.
And then for bonus points they hobbled it so that it couldn't be used to make as good of ad blockers, which is why the whole thing is not okay.