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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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[–] -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Bare MVP is ublock+ stock FF. Even allowing 3rd party cookies and...

  • ~25% of local news sites don't work right (Portland metro)
  • All internal work websites across all jobs don't work right for the past ~6 years (not counting Gusto, ADP was hit or miss depending on the function, Paylocity was OK)
  • Multiple places I've lived rental payment sites don't work
  • Portland metro utility payment sites don't load right and to fill out proper fields required weird tabbing to off-page fields and guessing what is being entered
  • One city site for payments or reports would straight up not load in FF

Y'all can burn me at the stake all you want, I don't fucking care. I use FF daily and champion it, but to say it works 100% all the time for every site is just disingenuous.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    ~25% of local news sites don’t work right (Portland metro)

    I have opened all pages on 1st page of google with a "portland news" prompt. All of them opened. Care to give some examples for testing?

    One city site for payments or reports would straight up not load in FF

    which one?

    Your-work-related sites and payment sites obviously are out of reach for me to test. But these two claims would be easy to prove, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Just wanna say I've had similar experiences. I don't think I'd put the number as high as 25% for myself, but my workplace's internal sites and some local/utility sites are also broken on non-Chromium browsers.

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