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rasz on July 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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

soo will this still just work if we give uBo webview permission?

deryilz on July 13, 2025 [–]

Unfortunately extensions can't have webview perms :(

rasz on July 13, 2025 | [–]

"'webview' is only allowed for packaged apps, but this is a extension."

:( but maybe Vivaldi and Brave could remove this check just for fun.

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