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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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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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'.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 11 hours 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.