For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    because theres no fighting google.

    Microsoft tried, and google won, which is why Edge became a chrome reskin instead of what it was before.

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              21 days ago

              Ah an american, in their natural habitat of giving up before even trying. Nothing can ever change, no point, etc. etc.

              • ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                21 days ago

                That’s just not true. You can always murder a bunch of innocent people or make it more racist. Try understanding a culture before you talk shit next time.

                • BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  21 days ago

                  You sound like onna those communists Mr Reagan told me is, like, ten times more scary than people different colours to me.

                  Don’t type! I’m armed!

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                21 days ago

                They aren’t saying they’re giving up, we just avoid posting certain comments to avoid potential scrutiny from the surveillance panopticon.

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      21 days ago

      The winning move is not to do business with them, don’t compete just exist and pretend they don’t exist. Microslop played the game and lost, but it is a stupid silly game.

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        21 days ago

        kinda hard to do when google holds the internet by the balls. and can twist at any moment to get what they want.

        Microsoft and Mozilla employees have both accused them of doing this in the past, to sabotage non-chrome browsers on google services, to make chrome look better and drive users to chrome.

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          21 days ago

          News to me, Does google hold this site by the balls? They have a lot of power yes, but they are not some unsinkable boat.

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          21 days ago

          They only ‘hold the internet by the balls’ if you are using and reliant on Google products.

          There are hundreds (if not more) tutorials and lists online to guide you through degoogling

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            21 days ago

            I’m sure we can get thousands of websites and every major corporation to degoogle cause you said they should.

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              21 days ago

              Where did I say they should? (I do think it, but didn’t say it).

              The only person here that spoke supposed ‘facts’ was you, saying that Google holds the internet by the balls. Which is true only in your corner of the world. Google definitely has a majority control, but we already have a big (and growing) movement with European Digital Sovereignity, De-Googling and loads of others.

              Up to you if you want to let Google hold the internet that you use ‘by the balls’.