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.
I look forward to the slight bump in Mozilla userbase.
Laughs in Firefox based browsers
People will *anything *except use FireFox
Excellent reason for even the normies to ditch chrome 🥂
Firefox+uBO works fine. Brave shields works fine.
it’s like people don’t remember what surfing the web was like before ad-blockers. If adblockers go away for real,
peoplenerds will revoltdeleted by creator
Zen has been pretty great so far
Good bye to Chrome it is then. I made the switch as soon as they started messing
happy to not be affected
Embrace Zen
Zen and Vivaldi for me is the combo.
I feel this doesn’t really affect many people.
MV2 has been disabled for quite some time now, and anybody left using Chrome has either installed uBlock Origin Lite or at this point just likes the adverts.
Don’t worry, there’s still hope: use Librewolf or Brave
