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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 dotcoma »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #25
dotcoma wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All users should demand privacy, but they don’t. Take a look at Firefox’s market share, or Brave’s etc.

Won’t Brave follow Google’s lead on this? Gecko, WebKit and—hopefully—Ladybird are the true alternatives. I used to think this was too extreme. But the ad vendor dragging ad blockers out of the engine flipped my view.

Brave, like Vivaldi, I think, have developed their own ad blocker.

No idea if they will fight to keep UBlock Origin accessible or not.

I think and certainly hope that Helium will fight the good fight.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by Chu4eeno »

itskamran wrote: post #8

This 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's all an excuse to try to neuter adblockers. The push for killing MV2 was suspiciously accelerated at the same time that youtube started implementing much more invasive anti-adblock techniques that really needed a full content blocker support (at least until people found new clever workarounds).

Especially since they put no effort into removing even extensions they know are malicious (and who work very well within the MV3 restrictions): https://palant.info/2025/01/20/malicious-extensions-circumve...

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by [deleted] »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #25
dotcoma wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All users should demand privacy, but they don’t. Take a look at Firefox’s market share, or Brave’s etc.

Won’t Brave follow Google’s lead on this? Gecko, WebKit and—hopefully—Ladybird are the true alternatives. I used to think this was too extreme. But the ad vendor dragging ad blockers out of the engine flipped my view.

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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by geysersam »

rwmj wrote: post #5

Surprised they still have this page on their site: > https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/ > 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. > 6. You can make money without doing evil.

Hah

> 6. You can make money without doing evil

implies that they're doing it for fun then I guess?

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by nishanmiranda »

HerbManic wrote: post #28

Just remember that Google is essentially an advertising company and that they were always going to squeeze this opening closed as soon as they could get away with it. I do fear for a future were even Firefox ends up caving in. Ladybird browser might be our only hope until something legal comes along to block functionality.

Firefox haven't caved in so far. Why do u think it might in future?

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by totetsu »

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.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

geysersam wrote: post #35
rwmj wrote: post #5

Surprised they still have this page on their site: > https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/ > 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. > 6. You can make money without doing evil.

Hah > 6. You can make money without doing evil implies that they're doing it for fun then I guess?

Or obligation.
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