IMHO it's quite brave that a Google employee working in that area would let his real name be published, and an illuminating view of how they (don't) think.
Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
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#12Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
Locked down computers that still let you install extension.
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#14Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
I'm a Firefox user for about 20yrs (since Firefox 3);
but too often I have to use Chrome, as so many sites only work properly on it; Firefox is really buggy or laggy on those websites;
For a time, all those AI chat web pages were just very slow on Firefox even with very little context, whereas Chrome only gets laggy when there is a lot of context.
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#15Does Brave track or does Brave fork on this?
It seems as if they will track it (https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/), with an exception for a selected few extensions (AdGuard AdBlocker, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix).
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#16Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
Is that a rhetorical question suggesting those people are wrong, or are you asking for, e.g., the technical reasons some software only works with Chrome in the mix?
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#17People still using that POS? :)
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#18Boycott evil companies.
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#19This feels more like a gradual tightening of extension APIs under Manifest V3 than a sudden “kill switch.” uBlock isn’t going away, but its capabilities are definitely being reshaped...
It is a "kill switch" - uBlock Origin will no longer work in Chrome 151 (July 28, 2026).
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#20Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
Ex-bosses used it so had to test shit on them.
Ok but if you use it only for testing, and not for your ‘real’ browsing, then probably the fact that they track what you are doing is not that important, even if it’s still a nuisance. Or not?