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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.266s | source
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throwaway73945 ◴[12 Jul 25 20:13 UTC] No.44544769[source]▶
So OP got Google to patch a harmless "issue" that could've been used by addon devs to bypass MV3 restrictions. Hope it was worth the $0.
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antisthenes ◴[12 Jul 25 20:17 UTC] No.44544798[source]▶
Yeah, that was my take as well. OP did some free work for a megacorp and made the web a little bit worse, because "security, I guess" ?

Good job.

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1. busymom0 ◴[12 Jul 25 20:30 UTC] No.44544905[source]▶
Google would have found this bug if any extensions tried to rely on it and patched it instantly anyway.