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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 fallbackboy »

pseudalopex wrote: post #235
fallbackboy wrote: post #227

I would recommend folks check out Helium ( https://helium.computer ) it’s fast, basically just ungoogled chromium, and has full support for ublock origin.

> full support for ublock origin This meant they added to Blink all the Gecko features uBlock Origin used?[1] Or they said they could maintain MV2 after Google removed it fully? Or they supported it so far? They said We'll keep support for MV2 extensions for as long as possible. But other developers said this and meant they would support MV2 until Google removed it. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-O…

They bundle uBlock Origin into their Chromium fork, I expect that if it became too difficult to support the APIs needed on MV2, they'd integrate the features more directly into the browser.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by HelloMcFly »

mbmbn wrote: post #127
chinathrow wrote: post #23

Look, we're having a good time on Firefox since November 9, 2004. Come join us!

Then again, our laptop battery only lasts 1/3 as much on MacOS. I know, I know. The community keeps pretending this isn’t an issue for the last, hum, 15 years? But it is, and for people that are looking for a tool and not for a statement, it quickly drives them away from Firefox back to Chrome browsers.

I've used Firefox across devices, across the years. This just isn't my experience, at all, remotely. And I have had to use Chrome (now it is Edge) for many work functions, so I do have the A/B comparisons. I'm not doubting your experience, fine, but I also know I'm not "pretending" anything in my own experience.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by Markoff »

nchmy wrote: post #230
Markoff wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

went from Firefox to Vivaldi, never looked back for many years on Android phone tried many, most recently was using Kiwi Browser, then for some time Firefox until they fucked up UI, so moved to Cromite, though my phone broke (never buy Google Pixel again, first broken phone after 15 years with smartphones and various brands including very low budget), so now I am on my old phone which for some reason doesn't support…

Why not Vivaldi on android as well, and benefit from sync etc? That's what I've been doing for about 8 months now. Generally quite happy.

no extensions, cant live without uBlock Origin and few others

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by mindcrash »

Ungoogled Chromium (https://ungoogled-software.github.io/) will 99.9% likely patch MV2 back in if they remove it (as there's already support and they will never remove it) and Ungoogled Chromium based Helium (https://helium.computer/) even ships with uBlock Origin by default.

And then there's still Firefox and all of its forks.

Best of luck to Big Tech as people will move on elsewhere.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by yannicklesuisse »

PM of Orion here.

Orion (https://orionbrowser.com) is a WebKit-based browser for Mac, Linux, iPadOS and iOS that supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions natively ⟩ including uBlock Origin.

We have no plans to drop extension support. Content blocking is a feature, not a loophole, and we think users should have full control over what runs in their browser.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by [deleted] »

close04 wrote: post #114
mrweasel wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Mozilla, at least from the outside appears to have been horribly mismanaged for the past 20-25 years and only survived because the ad money kept rolling in. I'm not knocking Mozilla for taking money from Google, it was a smart move. Most users would use Google anyway, so Mozilla pocketing billions by making users preferred search engine the default didn't really hurt anyone. Some of that money should however…

> the ad money kept rolling in Why "ad money"? That's a very uncharitable interpretation and for anyone not aware of the situation it's misleading. They're not paid for ads or by ads, they're paid by Google to continue being a viable alternative to Chrome. Is every Google employee getting "ad money" every month, or a salary? The payment is more accurately described as a protection tax.

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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by ChoGGi »

"We won't be able to provide / maintain this functionality indefinitely due to the complexity and tech debt, as well as the security risks it entails (we've actually found a number of bugs that are specific to MV2 lately)."

Poor little Google doesn't have the resources to support mv2.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

legacynl wrote: post #206
disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In the last 10 years I've not come across any site that doesn't work with Firefox I have. The dominos pizza website (at least in Ireland) basically never works with Firefox. I normally end up using Safari for that particular site. Additionally, lots of stuff doesn't work when Advanced Tracking Protection is on, enough that if I have any issues my first step is disabling that.

Did you ever click 'report broken website' button? It's there specifically for those cases.

where is this button?

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by ChoGGi »

mrandish wrote: post #151
kibibu wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically, you can make money without doing evil.

I heard they actually changed to this wording from the original, which for a long time was "Don't be evil." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

You heard? It was a fairly big controversy when they did get around to removing it.
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