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.
happy to not be affected
I 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.
Embrace Zen
Laughs in Firefox based browsers
Excellent reason for even the normies to ditch chrome 🥂
If you don’t care abt browser philosophy or whatever, Brave Browser. The search engine and ad blocking is one of the best things out there rn. Yes it’s a chromium based browser, but it is way better than using chrome or edge.
it’s like people don’t remember what surfing the web was like before ad-blockers. If adblockers go away for real,
peoplenerds will revoltDon’t worry, there’s still hope: use Librewolf or Brave
People will *anything *except use FireFox
Zen and Vivaldi for me is the combo.
Firefox+uBO works fine. Brave shields works fine.
Zen has been pretty great so far
Good bye to Chrome it is then. I made the switch as soon as they started messing
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.
