Taster_Of_Treats

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[โ€“] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't know all the details but I believe uBlock Origin relies on very long lists of servers that serve ads and declines to download from them, and manifest v3 limits the length of those lists so that they have to pick and choose which ones. Hence the uBlock origin lite, the lists are shorter.

[โ€“] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

FOSS ceases to be democratic when a company like Google funds its development. I don't know of a fork of Chromium that declined to move to manifest 3, but there probably is one.

 

In a win for memory safety in Linux, support for the C language "strncpy" function was finally removed from the Linux Kernel! This improves code readability in several hundred places and removes a constant source of error codes and even security vulnerabilities!

Full Tech Times article here, but I found the summary on slashdot easier to understand on first reading.