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.
I feel this doesn’t really affect many people.
MV2 has been disabled for quite some time now, and anybody left using Chrome has either installed uBlock Origin Lite or at this point just likes the adverts.
In the past, origin has just changed to work again. Is that out of the question now?
More freedom coming straight from The Land Of THe Free©.
What’s to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?
Cromite’s only flaw (IMO) is that it based it’s built in adblocker on AdBlock instead of Ublock.
I’ve tried moving to Firefox and I don’t know, it just feels ugh to me. (scientific critique, I know…). It’s just something I can’t put my finger on; Firefox just doesn’t feel performative. whether that’s a frame-buffer animation thing, or icon shadows, or something else entirely, it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.
Just use Firefox (or Zen Browser, which is a nice fork of Firefox)
Man, I panicked at first because I have to use Edge at work. But this article clickbaited me, as uBlock origin lite is good enough for most people.
Still, screw Chrome, Edge, and Opera for being such dicks. It’s always those three being the bottom tier browsers…
I think the other browser in your list have little choice, since they use the chrome rendering engine. Only Firefox still has it’s own engine.
If you are on iPhone, you can use Kagi’s Orion - it is based on Webkit, which is what Safari uses. I have uBlock Origin installed on that browser.
this is not c/privacy, but know that even when ublock lite can hide ads, it is much weaker for blocking trackers.
Can confirm, using Cromite + uBlock Origin Lite + I Still Don’t Care About Cookies.
They’ll have to pry the OG uBlock extension from my Ungoogled Chromium browser’s cold dead hands.
Ah, well that still work?
I use ungoogled chromium… but I assumed ublock would stop working like all the others.
*** laughs in Gecko Fusion ***
Remember that article awhile back about the FBI recommending you use an adblocker?
That means even the FBI recommends you don’t use Google and Microsoft browsers anymore
The 2026 FBI recommends that you vote for Trump, or else.
It’s a good thing I don’t use any of those. Although I’m sure something will come along that will get around those fixes. Something always does.
Ludites unite, might be time to go back to the old ways.
I am certainly a lot less enthusiastic about tech than I was even 5 years ago. In terms of benefit to the average person, tech has peaked. There’s a few outliers (e.g. medical tech), but most new “advancements” represent a downgrade.
Definitely, and it’s mostly due to the need to extract every penny form the user, we can’t make something perfect because it would mean we can’t sell and upgrade every year, hence why we’ve also moved to subs for everything, once you hit a peak how can you keep revenue flowing when the device lasts longer and longer.
Ungoogled Chromium and Librewolf really suits my needs, i dont even think about those issues ever since i started using them.
Firefox and its derivatives are the only browsers not using Google’s Blink web engine these days - at least until Ladybird is released.
Despite the Mozilla Foundation’s many stupid decisions, Firefox is starting to look like the only thing stopping Google from completely controlling the internet.
good thing i use brave,i recommend everyone to use it it has great adblocker that wont be affected by mv3.
People keep mentioning Firefox but fail to realize that Google, as the sole sponsor of Mozilla Corporation (not to be confused with Mozilla Foundation), can just kindly ask for Firefox to follow suit and gimp itself, just like it did before with a move to webextensions. Gotta admit it, Google has won the web, what they say (eventually) goes.
The browser wars have been kind of strange from the perspective of someone who’s been using Firefox for well over a decade. It’s a bit like hearing about the Civil War while living in Oregon.
