Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

Reminder to switch browsers if you haven’t already!

  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been way more than a decade (closer to two decades) uninterruptedly using Firefox. I’ve never used chrome as a my main browser, ever.

    But still, I’ll be naive if I didn’t recognize that this kind of shit will affect me even if it’s just indirectly.

    Next year they’ll surely will be forcing many webs only working in “manifest V3 compliant browsers”. I’m sure of that.

    • TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Firefox is looking to implement Manifest V3 to keep extension feature parity with Chromium, but their version will not ban the one API that adblockers use. So Firefox will eventually be V3 compliant

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Maybe it’s my tinfoil hat but if any part of this is related to their pursuit of ad revenue, I don’t imagine a v3 compliant Firefox will work with adblock for long.

        At the very least they would probably make using it a huge headache