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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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[โ€“] 28 points 5 months ago (6 children)

"Firefox doesn't have this one feature I like so I will keep using browser made by an ad company. I'm sure there will be no consequences long term".

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin

"Oh shit. No one could have predicted this!".

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Firefox is already using Google's Play Integrity API. They don't give a shit about us, they're helping Google fuck everyone over.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Firefox dragged its feet on an extremely useful feature for years.

    Are you seriously trying to act like Firefox hasn't been continually shooting themselves in the foot the past decade?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I've been using Firefox for decades without issues. Yes, Chrome was a better browser for a long time but Firefox wasn't that far behind and was absolutely fine browser to use.

    Do you really think Mozilla could win browser race with Google, the fucking second biggest company in the world? Of course Chrome had more features, it had basically unlimited resources at it disposal. But yeah, let's blame Mozilla for not winning with them decisively.

    YOU are shooting yourself in the foot. You abandoned Firefox for couple of features and soon you will be browsing the web with ads. Come back and tell me how extremely useful Chrome's features are when can you no longer skip Youtube ads.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Hey dumbass, you remember how Mozilla decided to use Google's Play Integrity API for their Android browser?

    Mozilla is cooperating in fucking all of us over.

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