18 votes

Google Chrome to fully remove legacy support for manifest v2

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  1. Tiraon
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    Most prominent effect is the end of support for Ublock Origin. While a version targeting manifest v3 exists it has significant limitations. What this effectively means due to Chrome and chromium...

    Most prominent effect is the end of support for Ublock Origin. While a version targeting manifest v3 exists it has significant limitations.
    What this effectively means due to Chrome and chromium dependent forks having a major market share is further locking down of the web.
    While the security issues that publicly led to the deprecation of manifest v2 are legitimate it is very convenient how neatly it cripples the most capable rendered website modification tool that anyone could have access to for nearly no effort.

    9 votes
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    joelthelion
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    A good time to switch to firefox or other browsers who respect their users, if you haven't done so already.

    A good time to switch to firefox or other browsers who respect their users, if you haven't done so already.

    3 votes
    1. Tiraon
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      Personally I mainly use Librewolf but Chrome and chromium forks have too large a marketshare to fully ignore.

      Personally I mainly use Librewolf but Chrome and chromium forks have too large a marketshare to fully ignore.