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Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by 20k »

jeroenhd wrote: post #168
20k wrote: post #140

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Weird, it still only highlights a single occurrence for me if I ctrl-f something, is there a setting for this or something?

You need to click "highlight all" to highlight all occurrences. It's the checkbox to the right of the search box. If you enable it for the first time, you may need to hit enter in the search bar again for it to show up (it remembers the setting and works instantly the next search)

Apparently I'm just a moron and have never seen it has settings in 10+ years. Thanks!

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by doublerabbit »

close04 wrote: post #147
yakcyll wrote: post #132

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In this particular context there really isn't any difference. Technically Mozilla isn't in the business of delivering ads, but their revenue is mostly supported by ad money from Google, and Google, being an ad giant, can simply cut that stream off. The common sentiment seems to be that this would spell a life and death situation for the company and for the browser as a whole, which essentially makes Firefox a hostage…

> Google, being an ad giant Isn't Google also a cloud giant?

I wouldn't say so. They're not offering their cloud at the same scale other competitors. Not sure when the last was I saw advertising for unlike AWS, Azure.

Felt more like their cloud services were more of a side product for when "the cloud" was the trendy buzzword and a way to justify their infrastructure costs. That and keeping a leg in the egg & spoon race.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by rntksi »

close04 wrote: post #146
CjHuber wrote: post #128

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Technically yes

Well thought out commentary... Let's dig deeper and at least we make it more interesting conversation, not a blurb. Wouldn't it be technically no because Google's revenue isn't 100% from ads? They're making almost $120bn from cloud, subscriptions and devices for example. It could be cloud money. And if Google gets ad money so whatever it pays becomes ad money, then it's ad money all the way down.

Where did you get the $120bn figure?

FYI last fiscal results from Q1 of Alphabet, Google Cloud made $20bn revenue Q1 2026, up from Q4 2025 of $17bn. It's a bit misleading to include "subscriptions, platforms, and devices" in cloud.

Q1 2026 Google's revenue totalled $109bn, of which $77bn is Ads, so 70% of its revenue is Ads. It's common knowledge that Google is an Ads company.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by eloisant »

riffraff wrote: post #89
matheusmoreira wrote: post #72

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Agree. The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin. It should be a standard browser feature at this point, like popup blockers.

it _is_ a browser feature for e.g. brave, vivaldi and (experimental, afair) firefox. Popup blockers were also a differentiator, once.

The difference is that the biggest popup offender was not the same company behind the browser everyone uses...

Just imagine if Netscape and MS made all their money from popups at the time.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by elashri »

dvh wrote: post #123
dotcoma wrote: post #4

Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)

There are 2 reasons why I'm using chromium (with ublock origin lite) over Firefox: 1. Chromium is significantly faster (maybe 5 to 10x faster on certain tasks mostly around canvas but anything that requires fast ui really). Every time I use Firefox it feels like it has some kind of serious problem. If chrome was this slow I would stop working and start investigating what part of my computer is broken. This experience…

Ctrl + shift + R would solve your second problem at all times.

And I don't think your first point is quantified correctly and I am sure there is no data to back it up. But I understand the appeal of trying to quantify your personal experience.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by nizbit »

austin-cheney wrote: post #155

The solution then is to run the equivalent of a PiHole on your private network and then configure your portable devices to always use that PiHole as their DNS service via self hosted VPN

Pihole is great for DNS filtering but doesn’t hide elements, no filtering and script blocking.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by gblargg »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #44
totetsu wrote: post #38

uBo is the only reason I find browsing the web at all tolerable anymore. As a test I turned it off to view this article and almost crashed my browser with a dozen auto play video ads This would mean I would find the energy to get over anything that is holding me on chrome, like saved passwords etc.

It's quite possible that we're just not meant to view the web. Those companies that even maintain websites might intend for us to really view things on their phone app. The garbage you see on the website is then not just some parasitic draining of your spiritual health, but a disincentive designed to convince you to stop using the web altogether.

Like Home Depot not showing the item location in store from the website, only the app.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by pseudalopex »

grishka wrote: post #148
maxloh wrote: post #133

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It's about the tech stack, IMO. Chromium is a moving target to maintain compatibility with, which is difficult for a team that doesn't have much C++ experience. As a counter example, Brave is heavily invested in C++ and Rust, and I believe they could handle that work much better.

Can't Chromium-based browser developers work together to fork the entire thing? Ideally becoming independent of Google altogether.

It would be much spent and not much gained in their eyes.
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