For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.
What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.
Laughs in Firefox based browsers
happy to not be affected
Excellent reason for even the normies to ditch chrome 🥂
Embrace Zen
it’s like people don’t remember what surfing the web was like before ad-blockers. If adblockers go away for real,
peoplenerds will revoltI feel this doesn’t really affect many people.
MV2 has been disabled for quite some time now, and anybody left using Chrome has either installed uBlock Origin Lite or at this point just likes the adverts.
People will *anything *except use FireFox
In my phone (Google pixel) I mainly use Firefox for browsing. While Chrome is still the default browser. At some point I’ll change default also to Firefox. I didn’t do this because I’m not logged into some apps there.
Firefox+uBO works fine. Brave shields works fine.
Zen and Vivaldi for me is the combo.
Don’t worry, there’s still hope: use Librewolf or Brave
Zen has been pretty great so far
Firefox and its derivatives (and Safari - sorry Apple users) are the only browsers not using Google’s Blink web engine these days - at least until Ladybird is released.
Despite the Mozilla Foundation’s many stupid decisions, Firefox (and Safari) is starting to look like the only thing stopping Google from completely controlling the internet.
I just got a notification today, that I can not continue using my banking app on my phone without first registering with the government… dark days for privacy.
Good bye to Chrome it is then. I made the switch as soon as they started messing
