At the start of the year Google Chrome had to put a stop to the Manifest v3 transition which would completely neuter adblockers because it just wasn't ready, well now it is and I'm impressed by the marketting strategy.

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Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls/

The Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/7/23950513/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-privacy-advocates-eu

New MV3 Timeline: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

MV3 Problems: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/2ZCITuOHT1E/m/8_DGt6QYDwAJ

Hackernews Comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33929202

MV3 Delay: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ

404 Media Post: https://www.404media.co/as-youtube-declares-war-on-ad-blockers-google-sponsors-ad-blocking-conference/

Google Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1eIaRuy7w&t=24021s

Google Undermines Adblock: https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/google-undermines-adblock/

Ublock Origin Comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17wu2gz/google_confirms_they_will_disable_ublock_origin/

Gorhill Post: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1725633169070649710

Vivaldi Post: https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers

Brave Post: https://twitter.com/brave/status/1574822798299729925

Firefox Post: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

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