Mv2 will be despreciated sooner or later for all browsers, same as Mv1 in 2013. What is changing is the handling of cookies in Mv3 in all webpages which use Google and other ad company APIs (Alphabet, googleanalytics, google-tagmanager, Amazon and others…), so Mv2 Extensions would become ineffective, this is only relevant for the user in case of adblockers in pages with ads, Lemmy and other from the Fediverse don’t need this…
There are still browsers supporting Mv2, but it’s only temporary
First affected are Chromium browsers which use extensions from the Chrome Store, there uBO will disappear with Chromium v139. Not so those which have an inbuild ad/trackerblocker, like Vivaldi.
In case of other extensions not related to ads and trackers, it is irrelevant for the user if it is Mv2 or Mv3.
_ For adblockers there is also AdBlock Plus which is aleady Mv3.
The image is wrong, uBO remains still in the Chrome Store, without any advice to be deleted.
Today screenshot
Much tin foil hat panic to the subject out there, there are always methodes to show the middle finger to the surveillance ad companies.
Yes, FF still support Mv2, some Chromium Browsers too, but Mv2 will disappear sooner or later, yes or yes. Also correct that ad filterlists are limitated in Mv3, but on the other hand they have a better cookie handling as Mv2, mainly against tracking, which is the main problem, not so the ads. But as said before, this will be the main reason because Mv2 will disappear for all browsers in the nearer future, because the incapability to handle the tracking tecnology of a lot of websites. Apart the additional work for a lot of devs to maintan two versions of the same extension Mv2 and Mv3.
Yes, uBOlite is Mv3, but its only advantage is to be hidden from YT anti-Adblock algorrithm, apart of this, the Vivaldi blocker is way better in all aspects. uBOlite has nothing to do with uBO, even AdBlock Plus is way better. The reason is, that Gorehill don’t want to put much effort in uBOlite.
Limited Filterlists are not a problem in an inbuild Ad/Trackerblocker, there you can put the filterlists you want, out of the control of Google and the store, Google only can access the installed extensions from the store, if he delete these in the store, they also disappear in the browser. He can’t do this with inbuild features and tools in the browser itself.
Less, if you, like I do, install the Portmaster on desktop, with wich, apart to monitor and if needed block all the traffic, also use an own DNScrypt with dynamich and customizables filterlists to show the middlefinger to all these data hogs.
Firefox will not drop Mv2 support in the forseeable future. It is a huge burden to keep the standard for all chromium forks, but firefox and firefox forks do not need to carry that burden. In the far future, web standards and technologies might change enough for Mv2 to not be effective, but that is a long time away, and depends on how the technologies and standards evolve.
All websites which use GoogleAPIs and those of other advertizing companies, change these in the same moment when Google and the others change these APIs and this would not last so much time.
Today screenshot
Much tin foil hat panic to the subject out there, there are always methodes to show the middle finger to the surveillance ad companies.
Notes worth making:
Mv2 will not be deprecated in firefox or firefox based browsers
Adblock plus is not the best adblocker extension, even for Mv3. uBlock has made a version that works with Mv3, called uBlock Lite
Even though Mv3 adblockers exist, they will always be worse than Mv2 adblockers, because they have a limited set of rules.
Yes, FF still support Mv2, some Chromium Browsers too, but Mv2 will disappear sooner or later, yes or yes. Also correct that ad filterlists are limitated in Mv3, but on the other hand they have a better cookie handling as Mv2, mainly against tracking, which is the main problem, not so the ads. But as said before, this will be the main reason because Mv2 will disappear for all browsers in the nearer future, because the incapability to handle the tracking tecnology of a lot of websites. Apart the additional work for a lot of devs to maintan two versions of the same extension Mv2 and Mv3. Yes, uBOlite is Mv3, but its only advantage is to be hidden from YT anti-Adblock algorrithm, apart of this, the Vivaldi blocker is way better in all aspects. uBOlite has nothing to do with uBO, even AdBlock Plus is way better. The reason is, that Gorehill don’t want to put much effort in uBOlite. Limited Filterlists are not a problem in an inbuild Ad/Trackerblocker, there you can put the filterlists you want, out of the control of Google and the store, Google only can access the installed extensions from the store, if he delete these in the store, they also disappear in the browser. He can’t do this with inbuild features and tools in the browser itself. Less, if you, like I do, install the Portmaster on desktop, with wich, apart to monitor and if needed block all the traffic, also use an own DNScrypt with dynamich and customizables filterlists to show the middlefinger to all these data hogs.
Firefox will not drop Mv2 support in the forseeable future. It is a huge burden to keep the standard for all chromium forks, but firefox and firefox forks do not need to carry that burden. In the far future, web standards and technologies might change enough for Mv2 to not be effective, but that is a long time away, and depends on how the technologies and standards evolve.
All websites which use GoogleAPIs and those of other advertizing companies, change these in the same moment when Google and the others change these APIs and this would not last so much time.