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> I don't know how to make an adblocker, so I decided to report the issue to Google in August 2023.

> It was patched in Chrome 118 by checking whether extensions using opt_webViewInstanceId actually had WebView permissions.

> For the report, I netted a massive reward of $0.

Snitches get stitches, not rewards.

FWIW, on Windows Google relies on the registry to determine weather to use V2 or V3, and it can be reenabled: https://gist.github.com/MuTLY/71849b71e6391c51cd93bdea36137d...

parent moffkalast 1 year ago

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