Already posted and discussed back in august 2024, 45 comments:
About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
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Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#92I already had Manifest v2 extensions, specifically uBlock removed from Chrome. There are solutions to extend this to mid-year, and I can report that they work (search for ExtensionManifestV2Availability)
why not just switch to a less hostile browser now instead of drawing it out for a few more months?
My machine is 10 years old. With Firefox video playback on YouTube is choppy even at 1080p. With Chrome it's perfectly smooth.
If Firefox performed better for me I would have switched to it long ago. This is on Windows 10 btw.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#93I tried uBlock Origin Lite for a very short time. Then I realized that in Lite, the user can’t add custom rules[0]. That’s when I had enough. So now I’m using Firefox instead, where I can use uBlock Origin. [0] See https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1in2ls4/ubloc...
I simply cannot give up the option of zapping distractions off of my screen. I really cannot understand how people can use Youtube or even a Youtube embedded video without zapping away the distractions. There is no way I'm coming back to Chrome if they don't support manifest V2. It's Firefox for me.
Just for the record: uBlock Origin Lite can block ads, but the user can’t add their own custom rules.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#94I tried uBlock Origin Lite for a very short time. Then I realized that in Lite, the user can’t add custom rules[0]. That’s when I had enough. So now I’m using Firefox instead, where I can use uBlock Origin. [0] See https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1in2ls4/ubloc...
They mention "other browsers" in addition to Firefox that will continue to support Manifest v2, but I can't find a list. Does anyone know off-hand the additional browser options for Manifest V2 and multiple-OS support?
Arc (until they completely abandon it), Firefox, Orion.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#95I tried uBlock Origin Lite for a very short time. Then I realized that in Lite, the user can’t add custom rules[0]. That’s when I had enough. So now I’m using Firefox instead, where I can use uBlock Origin. [0] See https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1in2ls4/ubloc...
I simply cannot give up the option of zapping distractions off of my screen. I really cannot understand how people can use Youtube or even a Youtube embedded video without zapping away the distractions. There is no way I'm coming back to Chrome if they don't support manifest V2. It's Firefox for me.
I use uBlock origin lite and there are no ads on youtube or embedded youtube videos
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brave and Vivaldi will continue to support it for some time. Brave also does not really depend on MV2 as they have their own adblocker (which is about as effective as uBO, I believe). edit: link to their adblocker: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
Edit: I was wrong. See below. Original comment: Brave's built in blocker is OK for what it does but I believe that it only replaces a subset of all uBO's features. For example I don't think that Brave's built in blocker has an element picker that lets you create cosmetic filters on the fly. I use that feature all the time in uBO.
Brave does have an element picker for creating cosmetic filters. It even works on Android, I just tried it.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, currently brave (and others I assume) switch it on at build time, when Google removes that from chromium they may move it to their patch set, but who knows how long they’ll keep that once it starts breaking.
The dynamic web request hook is the only thing still relevant in MV2, right? Are there any other features to be backported from MV2?
I've tried to understand what makes this so incredible impossible to maintain by asking people, I feels like FUD from the FF community (which I'm a part of) because it's all just wishywashy statements that it'll be impossible to maintain.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#98Google is milking a dying cow. LLMs are much better in searching for information than advertisement-exposure optimized google. People are paying for LLMs, consumers are no longer a commodity. Internet will change, maybe creators will be paid for their content? But what will happen with advertisers?
My experience with LLM has been that if the question/search is basic or common (in any particular subject), the results are no better than an ordinary search, and if it isn't, the responses are too frequently wrong. The problem isn't so much hallucination, but gullibility. The LLM appears "intelligent" but stupid. It seems to lack introspection, i.e. applying good sense in evaluating its sources and conclusions. You can ask an LLM how to properly evaluate sources and come to conclusions, but it doesn't apply these lessons to its own operation.
In other words, LLMs work well when you don't really need them and don't work well when you do. I have yet to see an LLM give a good result when a better result, written by a human, isn't available.
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#99Right now uBlock Origin Lite is "featured" on Chrome web store and so far navigation has been ok in the "complete" mode. Funnily enough, it made me review the block lists of the extension and I realized that I could select more of them. Too early to jump to conclusions.
Does it block YouTube ads?
yes
Re: About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
#100I already had Manifest v2 extensions, specifically uBlock removed from Chrome. There are solutions to extend this to mid-year, and I can report that they work (search for ExtensionManifestV2Availability)
why not just switch to a less hostile browser now instead of drawing it out for a few more months?
Stuff can change. Who knows. I might switch platforms until then so my choice might become invalid. I might die. No reason to do it now, when there is plenty of time.
I'm a happy Firefox user on mobile though (yeah, I know, I know the recent changes in their legal stuff)