Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too.

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.

  • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    What’s to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?

    It’s a lot of work, mostly. And how many of those V2 extensions are going to continue to provide patches anyway.

    it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.

    Maybe it’s the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Maybe it’s the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.

      Well that would certainly explain my irrational fear of foxes.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I hear exposure therapy is great for that. I’m sure there’s endless foxes around here that would be more then happy to help.