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there's now a proposal for it https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/pull/1019/changes so it will probably appear eventually.

comment by bovine3dom · 2026-07-31 · in Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

…habits can still easily be collected from the combination of fingerprints and tracking URLs. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302

comment by krackers · 2025-07-12 · in Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

This seems to be a significant problem: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/493#issuecomment... TL;DR: In order to detect ad blocks sites create "bait" URL's that look like ads, but are purely there to detect if ad blockers block…

comment by rstuart4133 · 2024-08-15 · in Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

…it in in terms of the API surface needed to properly support adblocking against a hostile web. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/56dc974e5d583d6989... https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/01ac3748984f31885c...

comment by krackers · 2024-08-12 · in Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers

It sure is awfully convenient that MV3 by design will prevent referal-stripping extensions https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302 (By the way, the meeting minutes are all published so you can read exactly how they're conspiring to…

comment by krackers · 2024-08-03 · in About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"

That’s wrong: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions

comment by sureIy · 2024-05-01 · in Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration

…also has the link to an issue in the webextensions repository indicating it's a limitation of MV3: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/112

comment by bilkow · 2023-12-02 · in Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

…to be able to be more alive than my agents. Yet my agents must all be dead. For shame, ye villains. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139 This post definitely was quite a technical explanation. The opening framing, to me, means…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-11-25 · in There are no strings on me

…have to have all behaviors predefined. I can't dial home & load my behaviors. Here's the issue, https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139 For a while it meant that userscripts didn't have any way to run. So Google introduced a new…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-11-17 · in Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)

…DNR is still not an acceptable replacement. There are still outstanding functionality gaps such as https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302 , which is interesting in that much of the tracking that privacy extensions are no longer…

comment by ghostwords · 2023-11-17 · in Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)

…various threats on the Web will be stuck in the past, unable to adapt as the threats evolve. [1] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302 [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-st...

comment by ghostwords · 2023-11-16 · in Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions

…to innovate. The browser (Google) becomes the gatekeeper. And yes, we lose CNAME filtering.[1] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/151#issuecomment... Google is an advertising company. Chrome extensions already experienced a lost…

comment by ghostwords · 2023-11-16 · in Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions

…from the post may be that fixing tracking redirects is partially broken in Google’s Manifest V3: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/302 Google also happens to be a major link mangler and tracker. So, link cleaner (and generally…

comment by ghostwords · 2023-09-20 · in New Privacy Badger removes tracking links in more Google products

…we want the actual code of the extensions to be as reusable as (reasonably) possible. [1]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/

comment by dotproto · 2023-08-28 · in Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

…try to work out some open questions about where we're going and how we're going to get there. [1]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/ [2]: https://browserext.github.io/ [3]: https://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/ [4]:…

comment by dotproto · 2023-08-25 · in Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

…out what Firefox's limits are I came across this interesting issue on the W3C's webextensions repo: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/319 4 days ago the Chromium developers proposed upping the limit for certain types of…

comment by eco · 2023-08-21 · in uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox

Yes, dynamic code is all outlawed. Disclaimer, I filed this issue. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139

comment by rektide · 2023-06-01 · in More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store

…the web. And I absolutely hate it. Hate it hate it hate it hate it. Abominable way to hurt the web. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139

comment by rektide · 2023-05-09 · in Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines

…API, the proposal has been merged into the WECG but the engineering work has not started yet." https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/f8f430f1904c2a6fa8... MV2 is sticking around until at least 2024.

comment by lapcat · 2023-04-01 · in Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

…a (non-complicated) extension recently and the service worker API seemed cleaner and modern. 1 https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72

comment by dmix · 2023-02-18 · in Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers

…API that allows to specify the position and size, and doesn't require any origin permissions. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/307

comment by NVI · 2023-01-16 · in For your next side project, make a browser extension

…engineer at Apple working on extensions said that "Apple sees extension APIs as long term support". https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/298#issuecomment...

comment by dessant · 2023-01-14 · in Recent improvements to Safari

…in MV3, but they haven't even started the implementation. They're still in the proposal phase. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/279

comment by lapcat · 2022-12-09 · in Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

…are you doing? Earth to Google, what planet are you on? [1] Use cases not served by service workers https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72 [2] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/279#issuecomment...

comment by rektide · 2022-10-02 · in Chrome's Manifest V3 Push Signals Changing of the Guard

…much deeper, far more complicated fiasco of the highest & most critical importance to the web. [1] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/279 [2] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/134 [3]…

comment by rektide · 2022-09-29 · in Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023

https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/264

comment by TedDoesntTalk · 2022-09-23 · in Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

It looks like it's being worked on, see < https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/279 >.

comment by gorhill · 2022-09-23 · in Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers

…several very popular crbugs for how the web-based service workers don't work well for extensions ( https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72 ). Given all this, the Chrome team continues with the change citing increased performance…

comment by gaurang_tandon · 2022-09-22 · in uBlock Origin Lite: Description

…discussion in this area. [1]: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/7bbba4a3-8305-45cd-a998-6... [2]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/pull/277 [3]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/_minutes/2022... [4]:…

comment by dotproto · 2022-09-20 · in Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

…although details are scarce it seems MV4 will still retain JS code execution [1] [2]. [1]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/_minutes/2022... (CTRL-F for "mv4") [2]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/_minutes/2022.…

comment by tech234a · 2022-08-30 · in AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

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The Charter of the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG)

story by Trouble_007 · 2022-06-10 · 0 comments

It's a superset of Chrome's functionality. E.g. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/134 . The Web Extension API in Firefox is generally a lot bigger than Chrome's, so there's plenty of differentiation and I wouldn't call it a clone.

comment by sp332 · 2022-05-18 · in Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps

…github issue[2] on this. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... [2] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139

comment by rektide · 2022-05-18 · in Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps

…good will to try to reduce them as much as possible. You can find some information about this here https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/tree/main/_minutes

comment by gildas · 2022-03-02 · in SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file

…same rule Apple uses to forbid v8 on iOS), & opened what I believe is the first issue against that. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139 . The background tasks discussion is another important one: extensions no longer having…

comment by rektide · 2022-01-26 · in Show HN: Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases

…extensions Let alone much more rewrites in exchange for probably-barely-usable extensions. [1]. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72

comment by outloudvi · 2021-12-15 · in Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation

Manifest v3 is a shit show. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...

comment by aeharding · 2021-12-09 · in Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

…A Mozillaian proposed a less limited Limited Events Page but Google has snubbed it & not discussed. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/134 Extensions are forced to use a small subset of JavaScript with no dynamic code execution.…

comment by rektide · 2021-12-09 · in Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425379 (freshly submitted) [2] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72 [3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-wpack-use-cases/

comment by rektide · 2021-12-03 · in We Need a Chromium Foundation

…times. But never like this. This is truly apocalyptic destruction being wracked upon the web. [1] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/pull/135/files#diff-ee4... [2] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72 [3]…

comment by rektide · 2021-12-02 · in Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022

…developer? Here is a list of issues that extension developers have with requiring Service Workers: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/labels/topic%3A%20servi... Just take a look at this work-in-progress MV3 version of a fairly popular…

comment by ghostwords · 2021-09-28 · in Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

…for background scripts. Another simply puts background pages back, but behind a permission. [0] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/labels/topic%3A%20servi...

comment by somehnacct3757 · 2021-09-28 · in Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

…with browser vendors and other extension developers. http://w3c.org/community/webextensions https://github.com/w3c/webextensions

comment by dotproto · 2021-06-10 · in Introducing chrome.scripting

…For the remaining 10%, I agree there is some risk - but per the webextension group's charter ( https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md ) section on "Autonomy" > Given this, we expect browser vendors to offer APIs and…

comment by kennywinker · 2021-06-05 · in Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins

This is their charter: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md And the twitter announcement from the co-chair: https://twitter.com/xeenon/status/1400862543673921536 I'm cautiously optimistic that this will work well, but…

comment by btown · 2021-06-05 · in Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins

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WebExtensions Community Group Charter

story by butz · 2021-06-05 · 0 comments