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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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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i used opera for around 13 years. i knew about the flaws but i was simply used to it, and as long as adblock worked i couldn't be bothered to switch to anything else

then my laptop broke and only that happening gave me the incentive to install something else, i was starting from (close to) scratch anyway

it'll take a lot of effort for people to abandon what they know, even if they'll be moving towards something better

i use Zen now :) it's nice

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Zen is a reskinned Firefox. Firefox depends on Google's funding to stay afloat.

Everything else, other than Safari on Mac is either chrome-based or firefox-based.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.

[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Another zen user, good to hear!