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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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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.

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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

...just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

Unfortunately, we're fighting an uphill battle here.

We'd need government regulation "protecting privacy", instead they seem all too eager to concede that in a futile effort to " protect the children ".

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    …just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

    At which point they cease to be your favourites, I hope. There are so many alternatives in that space that only inertia keeps people using the Empire of Evil.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    ...just wait until all your favorite search engines integrate it.

    Searching is already dead. Every search results in 200 Ai articles full of bullshit, even Qwant or DuckDuckGo.

    The corpo-web died already, y'all are just crying over the scraps.

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