Hopefully this means people return to FireFox, which I'm surprised many developers abandoned.
Regarding links in the article, it’s definitely lacking (as mentioned links like this: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...) but also why don’t articles like this offer a consistent set of alternate browsers like Firefox, Safari & all the Chromium derivatives (Brave, DuckDuckGo & Arc) that include ad blockers? I get that there’s a difference between those & the free choice to pick your ad blocker; but eventually everyone grows tired of the cat n mouse game. Why not help promote switching?
Almost all of these, for example, have desktop variants:
On Mac:
defaults write com.google.Chrome ExtensionManifestV2Availability -integer 2
I use Firefox and have never understood why so many people use a browser made by a for profit company
What are folks seeing for Firefox market share? Most online sources say FF is around 3%. My tech blog and tech projects see FF at 13%, which highlights that different user groups have differing browser preferences. Degrading ad blockers seems like something that should drive people to FF.
Back to Firefox!
I just installed uBlock Origin Lite and didn't see any difference between uBlock Origin on the sites I frequent. One thing I like about uBlock Lite is that it defaults to Basic mode which does not require the permission to read and modify data.
Will brave continue to support manifest v2?
Also seems like we can maybe expect a ublock browser in the future.
Reminder that the FBI recommends using ad blockers for security reasons.
This is Google being evil, and proving that they cannot be trusted with the browser.
Try chromite comes with Adblock plus and bromite legacy built in.Ffupdater at fdroid has it.
How's Microsoft Edge affected?
What about chromium alternatives like Arc and Kiwi? Will they keep manifest V2?
Chrome is ahead of the curve, driving innovation and making the internet a better place, again and again and again.
When people realize how insufferable the internet is without an Adblocker they’ll have no choice but switch to Firefox.
Despite all the links in the article, I didn't see one to the official announcement which contains useful information: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...
"Based on input from the extension community, we also increased the number of rulesets for declarativeNetRequest, allowing extensions to bundle up to 330,000 static rules and dynamically add a further 30,000."